Theory Into Practice
Title | Theory Into Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Ann B. Dobie |
Publisher | Cengage Learning |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2011-01-03 |
Genre | Criticism |
ISBN | 9781111342081 |
Beginning with more accessible critical approaches and gradually introducing more challenging critical perspectives, THEORY INTO PRACTICE, International Edition provides extensive step-by-step guidance for writing literary analyses. This brief, practical introduction to literary theory explores core theories in a unique chronological format and includes an anthology of relevant fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to help bring those theories to life. Remarkably readable and engaging, the text makes even complex concepts manageable for those beginning to think about literary theory, and example analyses for each type of criticism show how real students have applied the theories to works included in the anthology. Now updated with the latest scholarship, including a full discussion of Ecocriticism and increased emphasis on American multicultural approaches, THEORY INTO PRACTICE provides an essential foundation for thoughtful and effective literary analysis.
Literary Criticism
Title | Literary Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Charles E. Bressler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
The second edition of Literary Criticism by Charles E. Bressler is designed to help readers make conscious, informed, and intelligent choices concerning literary interpretation. By explaining the historical development and theoretical positions of eleven schools of criticism, author Charles Bressler reveals the richness of literary texts along with the various interpretative approaches that will lead to a fuller appreciation and understanding of such texts.
Theory Into Practice
Title | Theory Into Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Ann B. Dobie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2002-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780838452639 |
Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism
Title | Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Dobie |
Publisher | Cengage Learning |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781285052441 |
Beginning with more accessible critical approaches and gradually introducing more challenging critical perspectives, THEORY INTO PRACTICE provides extensive step-by-step guidance for writing literary analyses. This brief, practical introduction to literary theory explores core theories in a unique chronological format and includes an anthology of relevant fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to help bring those theories to life. Remarkably readable and engaging, the text makes even complex concepts manageable for those beginning to think about literary theory, and example analyses for each type of criticism show how real students have applied the theories to works included in the anthology. Now updated with the latest scholarship, including a full discussion of Eco-criticism and increased emphasis on American multicultural approaches, THEORY INTO PRACTICE provides an essential foundation for thoughtful and effective literary analysis. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Literary Criticism
Title | Literary Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Charles E. Bressler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780135330012 |
This introduction to literary theory and criticism, its historical development and the variety of theoretical positions or schools of criticism, is designed to help students take conscious, informed and intelligent choices concerning their own methods of literary interpretation. Plato to Henry James. It discusses each of the eight basic schools of theoretical positions concerning literary theory and criticism separately: new criticism; reader-response criticism; structuralism; deconstruction; psychoanalytic criticism; feminism; Marxism; and new historicism. Three works of literature are included: Nathanial Hawthorne's story, Young Goodman Brown; Robert Browning's poem, My Last Duchess; and Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles.
Theory Into Practice an Introduction to Literary Criticism
Title | Theory Into Practice an Introduction to Literary Criticism PDF eBook |
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Release | 2015 |
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Beginning Theory
Title | Beginning Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Barry |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2002-09-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780719062681 |
In this second edition of Beginning Theory, the variety of approaches, theorists, and technical language is lucidly and expertly unraveled and explained, and allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles have been grasped. Expanded and updated from the original edition first published in 1995, Peter Barry has incorporated all of the recent developments in literary theory, adding two new chapters covering the emergent Eco-criticism and the re-emerging Narratology.