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Literary Theories
A Case Study in Critical Performance
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A Case Study in Critical Performance
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Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyse and interpret the text. Literary Theories challenges the out-dated notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading and interpretation and, believing that the best way to learn is through practical application, plunges the student into the midst of a range of critical readings. Clearly 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 interpretation, literary writing and critical reading.
Table of Contents
Overture Introduction; W. Baker & J. Wolfreys
Snowed Up: A Mistletoe Story; R. Jefferies
Richard Jefferies: A Brief Biography & 'Snowed Up': A Note on the Manuscript and its Discovery; D. Blomfield & W. Baker
PART 1: FORMALIST CONCERNS
'Snowed Up': A Structuralist Reading; J. Cowley
Snow Me Again: A Poststructuralist Narratology of 'Snowed Up'; M. Currie
Does Edie Count?: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on 'Snowed Up'; J. Barker
ENTR'ACTE 'Snowed Up: A Mistletoe Story': Feminist Approaches; R. Robbins
PART 2: POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL ACCOUNTS
Agriculture and Anarchy: A Marxist Interpretation of 'Snowed Up'; J. Maynard
Power and Its Representations: A New Historicist Reading of Richard Jefferies' 'Snowed Up'; J. Brannigan
ENCORE An 'Economics' of Snow and the Blank Page or, 'Writing' at the 'Margins': 'Deconstructing Richard Jefferies'?; J. Wolfreys
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index.
Product details

Published | Oct 23 1996 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 272 |
ISBN | 9780333663028 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Dimensions | Not specified |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |

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