Isbn: 9780814712948 - literary theories: a case study in critical performance (6 Ergebnisse)

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextClassic essays setting out different theoretical positions and providing examples of close readings of literature are preceded by new introductions that describe the theory in question and discuss its main currents. Among the .

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 259 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Wie neu. minimale Kratzer auf der Buchrückseite, alles aber noch in Folie, daher Inhalt einwandfrei und ungelesen Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyze and interpret the text. In Literary Theories William Baker and Julian Wolfreys challenge the outdated notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading itself.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 Each essay in the book explores a previously unpublished short story by Richard Jeffries, also included in the volume, from a different theoretical perspective, thereby presenting students with New Historicist,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. …