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Criticism and Contemporary Literary Theory: An Introduction |
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Authors: |
Aretoulakis, Emmanouil |
Subject: | HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERATURE HUMANITIES AND ARTS > PHILOSOPHY > APPROACHES AND SCHOOLS IN PHILOSOPHY > STRUCTURALISM HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > LITERARY CRITICISM HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY > COMPARATIVE LITERATURE HUMANITIES AND ARTS > PHILOSOPHY > APPROACHES AND SCHOOLS IN PHILOSOPHY > CRITICAL THEORY HUMANITIES AND ARTS > PHILOSOPHY > APPROACHES AND SCHOOLS IN PHILOSOPHY > FEMINISM HUMANITIES AND ARTS > PHILOSOPHY > APPROACHES AND SCHOOLS IN PHILOSOPHY > GENDER THEORIES HUMANITIES AND ARTS > PHILOSOPHY > APPROACHES AND SCHOOLS IN PHILOSOPHY > POSTMODERNISM |
Keywords: |
Interpretation
Signifier Meaning Text Representation Identity Unconscious Subject Psychoanalysis Performativity Lacan Derrida Lyotard Baudrillard Aesthetics Deconstruction Postcolonialism Formalism |
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Abstract: |
This book discusses major contemporary trends in literary theory and criticism, casting light upon their different modes of reading, interpreting or evaluating literary, cultural and social phenomena, and emphasizing how such trends changed (and continue to alter) the ways we contemplate on literature, culture and humanity. The author’s intention is not to deal with the entirety of the theoretical schools of literature that made their appearance from the beginning of the twentieth century till now, or venture into an exhaustive historical and philological analysis of how those theories evolved, how they developed their methodologies, or under what circumstances they flourished. Rather, this study delves into a comparative and critical discussion of important literary theories as a cross-fertilization of ideas and concepts. Such a cross-fertilization will not only provide the tools for rethinking the value of literary studies but also broach the question of theory’s (rather than merely literary theory’s) relevance to the present moment in politics, culture and society, mostly in terms of the treatment of identity, gender, race, language, and the representations of truth at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. In other words, this project demonstrates how contemporary literary theory has germinated into other territories that are not particular to literature, thereby encompassing broad intellectual and critical fields such as cultural studies, feminism, postcolonialism or critical race studies.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Tsiadimou, Anastasia |
Graphic Editors: |
Kollia, Zoe |
Type: |
Undergraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 24-10-2024 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-618-228-295-3 |
License: |
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-1046 |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/14101 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Aretoulakis, E. (2024). Criticism and Contemporary Literary Theory: An Introduction [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-1046 |
Language: |
English |
Consists of: |
1. Literary theory, Criticism and the Idea of Representation 2. Formalism and the Return to the Text 3. Structuralism: Interpreting Reality and the Text as Centered Structures 4. Freudian Psychoanalysis: the Ego, the Dreamwork and the Repression of the Unconscious 5. Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis: the Unconscious as Language, Language as the Unconscious, and Desire as the Other 6. Poststructuralism and Deconstruction: Ambiguity of the Subject, Instability of the Text 7. Postmodernism: the End of Modernity? 8. Feminism, Women’s Writing and the Identity of the Other 9. French Feminism, Language and the Power of Representation 10. Postcolonialism: Empowering the non-Western and the Subaltern |
Number of pages |
258 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |
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