Literary Theories
Subtitle: A Case Study in Critical Performance
Contributors: Julian Wolfreys (Editor)
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: October 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780814712931
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Snowed up; History and criticism; 1848-1887.; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature; Jefferies, Richard,; Criticism; General; CRITICAL THEORY; Philosophy / Criticism; 1848-1887; Theory, etc
Description: Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyze and interpret the text. In Literary Theories Julian Wolfreys and William Baker challenge the outdated notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading itself. Maintaining that the best way to learn is through practical application, the editors have assembled a volume of essays that plunges the student into the midst of a range of critical readings.

Each essay in the book explores a previously unpublished short story by Richard Jefferies, also included in the volume, from a different theoretical perspective, thereby presenting students with New Historicist, Marxist, feminist, structuralist, post-structuralist, psychoanalytic, and Derridean methods of analysis and interpretation.

Cogently argued and lucidly written, these essays offer the student reader an interactive introduction to the ways in which contemporary literary theories challenge us to rethink the acts of reading, writing, and interpretation.