Introducing Literary Criticism
A Graphic Guide
Published on 4. February 2016
176 pages
978-1-84831-905-9 (ISBN)
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From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline.
Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and exploring theoretical and practical approaches, this unique illustrated guide will help readers of all levels to get more out of their reading.
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Owen Holland is editor of the Journal of William Morris Studies. He recently completed his PhD at St Catharine's college at the University of Cambridge, where he teaches the history of literary criticism.
Piero is an illustrator, artist and graphic designer whose work has been included in the Royal College of Art in London. He has illustrated many Introducing titles.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- What Is Literary Criticism?
- For All Time?
- Aesthetics vs Morality
- Learning through Imitation
- The Critic as Chameleon
- A (Very) Brief History of Literary Criticism
- The Theory of Forms
- The Three Unities
- Catharsis
- Defenders of Poetry: Sidney and Shelley
- Pope's Criticism
- Ancients and Moderns
- Neoclassicism
- The English Civil War and Literary Battle Lines
- The Romantic Individual
- Coleridge and Wordsworth: Romanticizing English Literature
- The Function of Criticism
- The Development of "English Literature" as a Discipline
- Attacks on a Professional Literary Discipline
- Aestheticism
- The Critic as Artist
- T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Critic
- Modernism
- Woolf and the Struggle of the Female Author
- Some 20th-Century Approaches: Three Types of Formalism
- Practical Criticism
- New Criticism
- Russian Formalism
- From Literary Criticism to Literary Theory
- Structuralism
- Applications of Structuralism
- From Structuralism to Post-Structuralism
- Marxist Literary Theory
- Psychoanalysis
- Some Versions of Historicism
- New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
- Feminism
- Intersectionality
- Gender Studies
- Key Figures in the Development of Gay and Lesbian Studies
- Homosexual Identity and Critical Re-Readings
- Postcolonial Studies
- Can the Master's Tools Dismantle the Master's House?
- Orientalism
- Ecocriticism
- Concluding Remarks
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- About the Authors
- Index
