Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2006 - 184 páginas
Providing a thorough and accessible guide to the major types of critical theories, this book uses everyday language and real-world examples to explain the premises, applications, implications and debates surrounding structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory and postmodernism. It presents with clarity and humor the ideas of such thinkers as Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Héléne Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Louis Althusser, Mikhail Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. This book is designed for readers who have no prior knowledge of literary theory, but who wanted to understand and to use the concepts which have radically altered the way we think about literature, culture, and ourselves in the past twenty years.

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What is Literary Theory?
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Humanist Literary Theory
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Structuralism
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Mary Klages is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

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