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Beginning theory : an introduction to literary and cultural theory /

Title:
Beginning theory : an introduction to literary and cultural theory /
Author:
Barry, Peter, 1947-
Published:
Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : 2009.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emmanuel College, Emerson College
Contents:
Introduction -- Theory before 'theory' : liberal humanism -- Structuralism. Structuralist chickens and liberal humanist eggs ; Signs of the fathers : Saussure -- Post-structuralism and deconstruction -- Postmodernism. 'Landmarks' in postmodernism : Habermas, Lyotard and Baudrillard -- Psychoanalytic criticism. How Freudian interpretation works ; Freud and evidence ; Lacan -- Feminist criticism -- Lesbian/gay criticism -- Marxist criticism. 'Leninist' Marxist criticism ; 'Engelsian' Marxist criticism ; The present : the influence of Althusser -- New historicism and cultural materialism. New historicism and Foucault -- Postcolonial criticism -- Stylistics -- Narratology. Telling stories ; Aristotle ; Vladimir Propp ; GeĢrard Genette -- Ecocriticism -- Literary theory : a history in ten events. The Indiana University 'Confernce on style', 1958 ; The John Hopkins University international symposium, 1966 ; The publication of Deconstruction and criticism, 1979 ; The MacCabe Affair, 1981 ; The publication of Eagleton's Literary theory: an introduction, 1983 ; J. Hillis Miller's MLA presidential address, 1986 ; The Strathclyde University 'Linguistics of writing' conference, 1986 ; The scandal over Paul de Man's wartime writings, 1987-88 ; Jean Baudrillard and 'The Gulf War never happened', 1991 ; The Sokal Affair, 1996 -- Theory after 'theory' -- Appendix 1. Edgar Allen Poe, 'The oval portrait' -- Appendix 2. Dylan Thomas, 'A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London' -- Appendix 3. William Cowper, 'The castaway' -- Where do we go from here? : further reading.

Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
PN81 .B367 2009Available
Emmanuel Main Stacks
PN81 .B367 2009Available