Literary Theory A Very Short Introduction

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-07-28
ISBN : 0199691347
Pages : 185 pages
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Download or read book Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction written by Jonathan Culler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culler offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, looks at whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience, and outlines the ideas behind deconstruction and semiotics.

Literary Theory

by Jonathan Culler

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1997
ISBN : 019285383X
Pages : 149 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (192 users)

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Download or read book Literary Theory written by Jonathan Culler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief introduction to literary theory that explores the various moves that literary theory has encouraged.

Key Terms in Literary Theory

by Mary Klages

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-03-29
ISBN : 144111453X
Pages : 144 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (441 users)

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Download or read book Key Terms in Literary Theory written by Mary Klages and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students of literature, film and cultural studies need to understand key theoretical terms and concepts but often find it hard to get to grips with exactly what they mean. This book provides precise definitions of terms and concepts in literary theory, along with explanations of the major movements and figures in literary and cultural theory and an extensive bibliography. It is designed for the student who needs to know what a particular term means, how it is used, and where it comes from, and enables them to apply the terms and concepts to their own investigations. The three part structure provides clear definitions of key terms and ideas, introductions to major figures including biographical and historical overviews and an annotated guide to important works. This invaluable resource provides readers with an easily accessible and comprehensive reference guide to literary and cultural theory.

English Literature: A Very Short Introduction

by Jonathan Bate

Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-10-07
ISBN : 0191614297
Pages : 192 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (191 users)

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Download or read book English Literature: A Very Short Introduction written by Jonathan Bate and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with close readings from an extraordinary scene in King Lear to a war poem by Carol Ann Duffy, and a series of striking examples of how literary texts change as they are transmitted from writer to reader. The narrative embraces not only the major literary movements such as Romanticism and Modernism, together with the most influential authors including Chaucer, Donne, Johnson, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens and Woolf, but also little-known stories such as the identity of the first English woman poet to be honoured with a collected edition of her works. Written with the flair and passion for which Jonathan Bate has become renowned, this book is the perfect Very Short Introduction for all readers and students of the incomparable literary heritage of these islands. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Advertising: A Very Short Introduction

by Winston Fletcher

Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-06-24
ISBN : 0191614270
Pages : 161 pages
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Download or read book Advertising: A Very Short Introduction written by Winston Fletcher and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How advertising works is not a question that has a simple answer. Advertising is a diverse entity and different campaigns work (or fail to work) in a plethora of different ways. Most advertising persuades people to buy things, but how? And who does it aim to persuade? And how are these decisions made? In this Very Short Introduction Winston Fletcher, an expert with extensive knowledge of advertising from the inside, aims to answer these questions, and in doing so, dispels some of the myths and misunderstandings surrounding the industry. The book contains a short history of advertising and an explanation of how the industry works, and how each of the parties (the advertisers , the media and the agencies) are involved. It considers the extensive spectrum of advertisers and their individual needs. It also looks at the financial side of advertising and asks how advertisers know if they have been successful, or whether the money they have spent has in fact been wasted. Fletcher concludes with a discussion about the controversial and unacceptable areas of advertising such as advertising products to children and advertising products such as cigarettes and alcohol. He also discusses the benefits of advertising and what the future may hold for the industry. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction

by John (Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature Sutherland, University College London)

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-10-25
ISBN : 0199214891
Pages : 145 pages
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Download or read book Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction written by John (Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature Sutherland, University College London) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last century, the tastes and preferences of readers of fiction have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an engaging look through the lists to reveal what we have been reading - and why.

Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction

by Christopher Harvie

Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2000-08-10
ISBN : 0191606499
Pages : 193 pages
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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction written by Christopher Harvie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-08-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, when it faced its greatest test since the defeat of Napoleon, it was largely urban and English. Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew show the forces behind Britain's rise to its imperial zenith, and the continuing tensions within the nations and classes of the 'union state'. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Feminism: A Very Short Introduction

by Margaret Walters

Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2005-10-27
ISBN : 0191578037
Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book Feminism: A Very Short Introduction written by Margaret Walters and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much have women's lives really changed? In the West women still come up against the 'glass ceiling' at work, most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic environments - in, for example, the Middle East, the Indian sub-continent, and Africa? This book provides an historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots as well as key issues including voting rights, the liberation of the sixties, and its relevance today. Margaret Walters touches on the difficulties and inequities that women still face more than forty years after the 'new wave' of 1960s feminism, such as how successful women are at combining domesticity, motherhood, and work outside the house. She brings the subject completely up to date by providing an analysis of the current situation of women across the globe, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Barthes: A Very Short Introduction

by Jonathan Culler

Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2002-02-21
ISBN : 0191577545
Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Barthes: A Very Short Introduction written by Jonathan Culler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with the way people make their world intelligible. He has a multi-faceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a 'science of literature', and the most prominent promoter of semiology; to others he stands not for science but pleasure, espousing a theory of literature which gives the reader a creative role. This book describes the many projects, which Barthes explored and which helped to change the way we think about a range of cultural phenomena - from literature, fashion, wrestling, and advertising to notions of the self, of history, and of nature. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Comparative Literature

by Ben Hutchinson

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
ISBN : 0198807279
Pages : 161 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (198 users)

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Download or read book Comparative Literature written by Ben Hutchinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering literature comparatively can help readers realize how much can be learned by looking beyond the horizon of their own cultures, discovering not only more about other literatures, but also about their own. Ben Hutchinson offers a history of comparative literature, placing it at the heart of literary criticism.

Material Inscriptions

by Andrzej Warminski

Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-30
ISBN : 0748681248
Pages : 248 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (748 users)

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Download or read book Material Inscriptions written by Andrzej Warminski and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the practice and pedagogical value of rhetorical reading. Its readings follow an itinerary from poetic texts (such as those by Wordsworth and Keats) through theoretical or philosophical texts (by Descartes and Nietzsche) to narrative

Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction

by Sara Upstone

Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-05-04
ISBN : 1473611938
Pages : 304 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (473 users)

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Download or read book Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction written by Sara Upstone and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but also about the different approaches that literary theory offers. By making use of these, they create new interpretations of the text that would not otherwise be possible. In your own reading and writing, literary theory fosters new avenues into the text. It allows you to make informed comments about the language and form of literature, but also about the core themes - concepts such as gender, sexuality, the self, race, and class - which a text might explore. Literary theory gives you an almost limitless number of texts to work into your own response, ensuring that your interpretation is truly original. This is why, although literary theory can initially appear alienating and difficult, it is something to get really excited about. Imagine you are standing in the centre of a circular room, with a whole set of doors laid out around you. Each doorway opens on to a new and illuminating field of knowledge that can change how you think about what you have read: perhaps in just a small way, but also perhaps dramatically and irrevocably. You can open one door, or many of them. The choice is yours. Put the knowledge you gain together with your own interpretation, however, and you have a unique and potentially fascinating response. Each chapter in Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction covers a key school of thought, progressing to a point at which you'll have a full understanding of the range of responses and approaches available for textual interpretation. As well as focusing on such core areas as Marxism, Modernism, Postmodernism, Structuralism and Poststructuralism, this introduction brings in recent developments such as Eco and Ethical Criticism and Humanisms.

Klett Uni Wissen Literary Theory

by KLETT

Publisher : PONS
Release Date : 2014
ISBN : 312939026X
Pages : 165 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (129 users)

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Download or read book Klett Uni Wissen Literary Theory written by KLETT and published by PONS. This book was released on 2014 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Uni-Wissen An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature (English Version)

by Vera Nünning

Publisher : Klett Lerntraining bei PONS
Release Date : 2015-02-23
ISBN : 3129391096
Pages : 196 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (129 users)

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Download or read book Uni-Wissen An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature (English Version) written by Vera Nünning and published by Klett Lerntraining bei PONS. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact introduction to the central subject-matter, approaches and research domains - attention is paid primarily to the most important issues and categories of literary studies, to the methodology of poetry, drama, narrative and media analysis, and to the most important elements of English and American literary history. German version: Grundkurs anglistisch-amerikanistische Literaturwissenschaft Print ISBN 9783129390290, epub 9783129391136

German Literature: A Very Short Introduction

by Nicholas Boyle

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-02-28
ISBN : 0199206597
Pages : 185 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (199 users)

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Download or read book German Literature: A Very Short Introduction written by Nicholas Boyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German writers, be it Goethe, Nietzsche, Marx, Brecht or Mann, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction illuminates the particular character and power of German literature, and examines its impact on the wider cultural world.

Rehabilitating Literary Theory

by Khaled Besbes

Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Release Date : 2011
ISBN : 1612335071
Pages : 348 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (612 users)

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Download or read book Rehabilitating Literary Theory written by Khaled Besbes and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work seeks to bring literary theory in line with the most recent practical turn the humanities are witnessing. When simplified, succinctly presented, and skillfully used in multi-coded interpretation within a semiocritical framework, literary theories become practical exercises in criticism, not only facilitating the interpretation of literature, but also making it more enjoyable and more rewarding. This book is different from its counterparts in the sense that it includes an exceptionally expanded model of the practice of literary theories, and replaces long and theoretical discussions with brief synopses of the examined theories. It relies on less-overused texts for illustration as it compiles and organizes the terms and phrases that are often used by the proponents of the discussed theories. The most influential literary theories that have so far been developed in academia are included: the New Criticism, reader-response criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, feminism, Marxism, psychoanalytic criticism, linguistic criticism, cultural materialism, new historicism, postcolonialism, and semiotics. Through eliminating the excesses made in the name of theory, this book will restore the faith of students, teachers, and practitioners in the useful and enduring nature of literary theory for the analysis and appreciation of literature.

Literary Theories

by Julian Wolfreys

Publisher : NYU Press
Release Date : 1999-09
ISBN : 0814793614
Pages : 687 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (814 users)

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Download or read book Literary Theories written by Julian Wolfreys and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reader and introductory guide to literary theory—includes close readings and a full glossary and bibliography Literary Theories is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, post-structuralism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, gay studies and queer theory, and cultural studies, Literary Theories introduces the reader to the most challenging and engaging aspects of critical studies in the humanities today. Classic essays representing the different theoretical positions and offering striking examples of close readings of literature are preceded by new introductions which present the theory in question and discuss its main currents. With a full glossary and detailed bibliography, Literary Theories is the perfect introductory guide and reader in one volume. Included are essays by Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Homi K. Bhabha, Judith Butler, Terry Castle, Iain Chambers, Rey Chow, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Jonathan Dollimore, Terry Eagleton, Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Heath, Wolfgang Iser, Fredric Jameson, Hans Robert Jauss, Claire Kahane, Gail Ching Liang Low, Mary Lydon, Jean-François Lyotard, James M. Mellard, D.A. Miller, J. Hillis Miller, Louis Adrian Montrose, Michael Riffaterre, Avital Ronell, Nicholas Royle, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Alan Sinfield, and Raymond Williams.