| Description |
x, 211 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
How to study literature |
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How to study literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Phenomenological theory: Ingarden -- Hermeneutical theory: Gadamer -- Gestalt theory: Gombrich -- Reception theory: Iser -- Semiotic theory: Eco -- Psychoanalytical theory: Ehrenzweig -- Marxist theory: Williams -- Deconstruction: Miller -- Anthropological theory: Gans -- Dewey's Art as experience -- Showalter's "Toward a feminist poetics" -- Theory in perspective -- Postscript - Postcolonial discourse: Said -- Appendix A: John Keats, Ode on a Grecian urn -- Appendix B: Edmund Spenser, "Februarie: Aegloga Secunda" from The shepheardes calendar -- Appendix C: T. S. Eliot, "The fire sermon" from The waste land. |
| Summary |
"Using classic literary texts, including Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn, Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender, and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Iser shows what a work of art looks like if viewed in terms of each of the theories concerned. He presents the different theories objectively, leaving it up to readers to decide which, if any, they subscribe to. In this way, he defuses students' fear of theory and demonstrates the potential of different theories for interpreting texts."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Literature -- Philosophy.
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Criticism.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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| ISBN |
9781405115797 (hard cover : alk. paper) |
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1405115793 (hard cover : alk. paper) |
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9781405115803 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1405115807 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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