How to Interpret Literature Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies
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Summary
Author Biography
Robert Dale Parker is Frank Hodgins Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: New Criticism
Before New Criticism
How to Interpret: Key Concepts for New Critical Interpretation
Historicizing the New Criticism: Rethinking Literary Unity
The Intentional Fallacy and the Affective Fallacy
How to Interpret: A New Critical Example
The Influence of New Criticism
Further Reading
Chapter 3: Structuralism
Key Concepts in Structuralism
How to Interpret: Structuralism in Cultural and Literary Studies
The Death of the Author
How to Interpret: The Detective Novel
Structuralism, Formalism, and Literary History
The Structuralist Study of Narrative: Narratology
How to Interpret: Focalization and Free Indirect Discourse
Narrative Syntax, and Metaphor and Metonymy
Further Reading
Chapter 4: Deconstruction
Key Concepts in Deconstruction
How to Interpret: A Deconstructionist Example
Writing, Speech, and Différance
Deconstruction beyond Derrida
Deconstruction, Essentialism, and Identity
How to Interpret: Further Deconstructionist Examples
Further Reading
Chapter 5: Psychoanalysis
Clinical Psychoanalysis
Key Concepts in Psychoanalysis: The Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Mind
Sigmund Freud
How to Interpret: Models of Psychoanalytic Interpretation
From the Interpretation of Dreams to the Interpretation of Literature
How to Interpret: Further Psychoanalytic Examples
Jacques Lacan
How to Interpret: A Lacanian Example
Further Reading
Chapter 6: Feminism
What Is Feminism?
Early Feminist Criticism and Contemporary Feminist Criticism
Sex and Gender
Feminisms
How to Interpret: Feminist Examples
Feminism and Visual Pleasure
Intersectionality and the Interdisciplinary Ethos of Contemporary Feminism
Further Reading
Chapter 7: Queer Studies
Key Concepts in Queer Studies
How to Interpret: A Queer Studies Example
Queer Studies and History
Outing: Writers, Characters, and the Literary Closet
How to Interpret: Outing the Closet
Homosociality and Homosexual Panic
Heteronormativity, the Anti-Social Turn, and Queer Time
Queer of Color Critique
How to Interpret: Another Queer Studies Example
Questions That Queer Studies Critics Ask
Further Reading
Chapter 8: Marxism
Key Concepts in Marxism
Lukács, Gramsci, and Marxist Interpretations of Culture
Contemporary Marxism, Ideology, and Agency
How to Interpret: An Example from Popular Culture
Variations in Marxist Criticism
How to Interpret: Further Marxist Examples
Further Reading
Chapter 9: Historicism and Cultural Studies
New Historicism
How to Interpret: Historicist Examples
Michel Foucault
Cultural Studies
How to Interpret: A Cultural Studies Example
Cultural Studies, Historicism, and Literature
Further Reading
Chapter 10: Postcolonial and Race Studies
Postcolonialism
From Orientalism to Deconstruction: Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
How to Interpret: A Postcolonial Studies Example
Race Studies
How to Interpret: Postcolonial and Race Studies Examples
Postcolonial and Race Studies and Literary Studies
Further Reading
Chapter 11: Reader Response
Ideal, Implied, and Actual Readers
Structuralist Models of Reading and Communication
Aesthetic Judgment, Interpretive Communities, and Resisting Readers
Reception Theory and Reception History
Paranoid, Suspicious, and Symptomatic Reading versus Surface Reading
Readers and the New Technologies
Further Reading
Chapter 12: Recent and Emerging Developments: Environmental Criticism and Disability Studies
Environmental Criticism
Disability Studies
A Future for Critical Theory
Further Reading
Terms for Poetic Form
Works Cited
Photographic Credits
Index
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