Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory
Title | Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Todd Davis |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2018-03-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 140391916X |
This invaluable guide by Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack offers an accessible introduction to two important movements in the history of twentieth-century literary theory. A complementary text to the Palgrave volume Postmodern Narrative Theory by Mark Currie, this new title addresses a host of theoretical concerns, as well as each field's principal figures and interpretive modes. As with other books in the Transitions series, Formalist Criticism and Reader-response Theory includes readings of a range of widely-studied texts, including Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, among others. Transitions critically explores movements in literary theory. Guiding the reader through the poetics and politics of interpretative paradigms and schools of thought, Transitions helps direct the student's own acts of critical analysis. As well as transforming the critical developments of the past by interpreting them from the perspective of the present day, each study enacts transitional readings of a number of well-known literary texts.
Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory
Title | Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Todd Davis |
Publisher | Red Globe Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002-05-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 033376532X |
Provides an introduction to formalist and reader-response literary theory. Demonstrates each theory through a series of critical essays analyzing classic pieces of literature.
Reader-Response Criticism
Title | Reader-Response Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Jane P. Tompkins |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1980-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780801824012 |
"Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism" collects the most important theoretical statements on readers and the reading process. Its essays trace the development of reader-response criticism from its beginnings in New Criticism through its appearance in structuralism, stylistics, phenomenology, psychoanalytic criticism, and post-structuralist theory. The editor shows how each of these essays treats the problem of determinate meaning and compares their unspoken moral assumptions. In a concluding essay, she redefines the reader-response movement by placing it in historical perspective, providing the first short history of the concept of literary response. This anthology remains an indispensable guide to reader-response criticism. -- From publisher's description.
Doing Literary Criticism
Title | Doing Literary Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Gillespie |
Publisher | Stenhouse Publishers |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1571108424 |
One of the greatest challenges for English language arts teachers today is the call to engage students in more complex texts. Tim Gillespie, who has taught in public schools for almost four decades, has found the lenses of literary criticism a powerful tool for helping students tackle challenging literary texts. Tim breaks down the dense language of critical theory into clear, lively, and thorough explanations of many schools of critical thought---reader response, biographical, historical, psychological, archetypal, genre based, moral, philosophical, feminist, political, formalist, and postmodern. Doing Literary Criticism gives each theory its own chapter with a brief, teacher-friendly overview and a history of the approach, along with an in-depth discussion of its benefits and limitations. Each chapter also includes ideas for classroom practices and activities. Using stories from his own English classes--from alternative programs to advance placement and everything in between--Tim provides a wealth of specific classroom-tested suggestions for discussion, essay and research paper topics, recommended texts, exam questions, and more. The accompanying CD offers abbreviated overviews of each theory (designed to be used as classroom handouts, examples of student work, collections of quotes to stimulate discussion and writing, an extended history of women writers, and much more. Ultimately, Doing Literary Criticism offers teachers a rich set of materials and tools to help their students become more confident and able readers, writers, and critical thinkers.
New Formalist Criticism
Title | New Formalist Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | F. Bogel |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2013-11-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137362596 |
New Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory. New formalism anticipates a move in literary studies back towards the text and, in so doing, establishes itself as one of the most exciting areas of contemporary critical theory.
The Short Story
Title | The Short Story PDF eBook |
Author | Charles May |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 149 |
Release | 2013-10-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1136747885 |
The short story is one of the most difficult types of prose to write and one of the most pleasurable to read. From Boccaccio's Decameron to The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price, Charles May gives us an understanding of the history and structure of this demanding form of fiction. Beginning with a general history of the genre, he moves on to focus on the nineteenth-century when the modern short story began to come into focus. From there he moves on to later nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century formalism and finally to the modern renaissance of the form that shows no signs of abating. A chronology of significant events, works and figures from the genre's history, notes and references and an extensive bibliographic essay with recommended reading round out the volume.
Interpretive Conventions
Title | Interpretive Conventions PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Mailloux |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501720945 |
In Interpretive Conventions, Steven Mailloux provides a general introduction to reader-response criticism while developing his own specific reader-oriented approach to literature. He examines five influential theories of the reading process—those of Stanley Fish, Jonathan Culler, Wolfgang Iser, Norman Holland, and David Bleich. He goes on to argue the need for a more comprehensive reader-response criticism based on a consistent social model of reading. He develops such a reading model and also discusses American textual editing and literary history.