French Literary Theory Today
Title | French Literary Theory Today PDF eBook |
Author | Tzvetan Todorov |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1982-10-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521297776 |
Originally published in 1982, this is an anthology of studies by French literary theorists representing the most significant contributions to the field made in France in the preceding fifteen years. The essays were published here in English for the first time and cover, among other topics, the methodology of literary studies, the specifics of literary creation, the different facets and levels of the text, and the issues raised by the classification of literature into genres and periods. Biographical notes on the authors and an introduction are provided by the editor. The contributors all reflect in varying degrees the influence of structural linguistics, and this collection will be of value for all those, on whichever side of the debate, concerned with the impact and importance of this method of approach for the study of literature.
French Literary Theory Today : A Reader
Title | French Literary Theory Today : A Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Collectif, |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1982-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9782735100279 |
French Literary Theory Today
Title | French Literary Theory Today PDF eBook |
Author | Tzvetan Todorov |
Publisher | |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Literary Theory and Criticism
Title | Literary Theory and Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Waugh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780199291335 |
This volume offers a comprehensive account of modern literary criticism, presenting the field as part of an ongoing historical and intellectual tradition. Featuring thirty-nine specially commissioned chapters from an international team of esteemed contributors, it fills a large gap in the market by combining the accessibility of single-authored selections with a wide range of critical perspectives. The volume is divided into four parts. Part One covers the key philosophical and aesthetic origins of literary theory, while Part Two discusses the foundational movements and thinkers in the first half of the twentieth century. Part Three offers introductory overviews of the most important movements and thinkers in modern literary theory, and Part Four looks at emergent trends and future directions.
The Reading of Theoretical Texts
Title | The Reading of Theoretical Texts PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ekegren |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2002-01-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134621140 |
Since the structuralist debates of the 1970s the field of textual analysis has largely remained the preserve of literary theorists. Social scientists, while accepting that observation is theory laden have tended to take the meaning of texts as given and to explain differences of interpretation either in terms of ignorance or bias. In this important contribution to methodological debate, Peter Ekegren uses developments within literary criticism, philosophy and critical theory to reclaim this study for the social sciences and to illuminate the ways in which different readings of a single text are created and defended.
A New History of French Literature
Title | A New History of French Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Denis Hollier |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 1202 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780674615663 |
An introduction to the history of French literature, covering from 842 to 1990.
Discipline and Practice
Title | Discipline and Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Herbrechter |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN | 9780838755655 |
Has theory become resistible? Has it betrayed its promise, and sold out on its practice? Should theory, after having become a discipline, still lay claims on the radical, or should it embrace its establishment within the university? What future(s) could theory have if there is (dis)agreement about its present(s) and its past(s), and what and how should it from now proceed to read?