Literary theory : a guide for the perplexed / by Klages, Mary

Table of Contents: “…What is 'literary theory?' -- Humanist literary theory : Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Francis Bacon, Joseph Addison, Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Matthew Arnold -- Structuralism : Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Levi-Strauss and 'the structural study of myth', Interlude: Humanism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism -- Deconstruction : Binary opposition, The role of the center, Bricolage -- Psychoanalysis : Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Interlude: 'self' to 'subject' -- Feminism : 'Pre-poststructuralist' feminist literary theory, Poststructuralist feminist literary theory, Hélène Cixous and 'The laugh of the Medusa', Luce Irigaray and 'This sex which is not one' -- Queer theory : Flexible sexuality?…”
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Literary theory : an historical introduction / by Procházka, Martin

Table of Contents: “…PART ONE: HISTORICAL OUTLINE OF LITERARY THEORIES; Introduction; APPROACHES TO AESTHETICS AND LITERARY THEORY; M.H. …”
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Literary theory / by Carter, David R., 1945-

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Literary Theory A Practical Introduction. by Ryan, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Literary Theory -- How to Study Literature -- Contents -- Note to Teachers -- Literary Theory: A Primer -- Chapter 1 Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Poetics -- An Introduction to Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Poetics -- Exercise 1.1 William Shakespeare, King Lear -- Exercise 1.2 Elizabeth Bishop, "The Moose" and "At the Fishhouses" -- Exercise 1.3 F. …”
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Literary Theory An Introduction. by Eagleton, Terry

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Literary Theory An Anthology. by Rivkin, Julie

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Shakespeare and literary theory / by Harris, Jonathan Gil

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Introducing Literary Theories by Wolfreys, Julian

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Policing literary theory /

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Policing Literary Theory -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Editors' Introduction -- Part 1: Theories of Policing in Literature and Literary Criticism -- 1 After Theory: Politics against the Police? …”
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The Literary Theory Handbook by Castle, Gregory

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- The Literary Theory Handbook -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Alphabetical Listing of Key Movements and Theories -- Introduction -- The Nature of Literary Theory -- What is Literature? …”
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Key concepts in literary theory / by Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-, Robbins, Ruth, 1965-, Womack, Kenneth

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Key terms in literary theory / by Klages, Mary

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Key concepts in literary theory / by Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-, Womack, Kenneth, Robbins, Ruth, 1965-

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The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory by Castle, Gregory

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE RISE OF LITERARY THEORY -- Timeline -- THE SCOPE OF LITERARY THEORY -- Critical Theory -- Cultural Studies -- Deconstruction -- Ethnic Studies -- Feminist Theory -- Gender and Sexuality -- Marxist Theory -- Narrative Theory -- New Criticism -- New Historicism -- Postcolonial Studies -- Postmodernism -- Poststructuralism -- Psychoanalysis -- Reader-Response Theory -- Structuralism and Formalism -- KEY FIGURES IN LITERARY THEORY -- Theodor Adorno (1903-69) -- Louis Althusser (1918-90) -- Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975)…”
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A companion to literary theory /

Table of Contents: “…Scientific Inflections; Chapter 34. Evolutionary Literary Theory (Joseph Carroll) -- Chapter 35. Ecocriticism: The Expanding Universe (Harold Fromm) -- Chapter 36. …”
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Literature and Literary Theory in Contemporary China. by Jiong, Zhang

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1; 1 Marxism and trends of literary theories; 2 Marxist theories of literature and art and challenges facing them; 3 Marxism and Chinese new literature and art; 4 Epoch-making literature on Marxist theories of literature and art; Part 2; 5 The outlook on the essence of literature; 6 On the relationship between literature and the people; 7 Discussion on the relationship between literature and politics; 8 On relationship between literature and reality; 9 On relationship between perception and rationality in literary creation.…”
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Jorge Luis Borges Variaciones Interpretativas Sobre Sus Procedimientos Literarios y Bases Epistemológicas. by Blüher, Karl Alfred

Subjects: “…Literary Theory and Criticism.…”
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Modern Literary Theory and Ancient Texts : an Introduction. by Schmitz, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Modern LiteraryTheory and Ancient Texts : An Introduction; Contents; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments for the English Translation; Introduction; 1 Russian Formalism; 2 Structuralism; 3 Narratology; 4 Mikhail Bakhtin; 5 Intertextuality; 6 Reader-Response Criticism; 7 Orality -- Literacy; 8 Deconstruction; 9 Michel Foucault and Discourse Analysis; 10 NewHistoricism; 11 Feminist Approaches/Gender Studies; 12 Psychoanalytic Approaches; Conclusions?…”
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The literary theories of August Wilhelm Schlegel / by Ewton, Ralph W., 1938-

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Key Concepts in Literary Theory, Second Edition. by Wolfreys, Julian

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Dialogue of Voices : Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin. by Hohne, Karen

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Future Indicative : Literary Theory and Canadian Literature. by Moss, John

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Philosophy of literature : an introduction by New, Christopher

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The singularity of literature by Attridge, Derek

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Verbal art : a philosophy of literature and literary experience by Pettersson, Anders, 1946-

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Reading East Asian Writing : the Limits of Literary Theory. by Hockx, Michel

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The knife in the stone : essays in literary theory / by Will, Frederic

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The resistance to theory by De Man, Paul

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A history of Russian literary theory and criticism : the Soviet age and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : toward a history of Soviet and post-Soviet literary theory and criticism / Evgeny Dobrenko and Galin Tihanov -- Literary criticism during the revolution and the civil war, 1917-1921 / Stefano Garzonio and Maria Zalambani -- Literary criticism and cultural policy during the new economic policy, 1921-1927 / Natalia Kornienko -- Literary criticism and the transformations of the literary field during the cultural revolution, 1928-1932 / Evgeny Dobrenko -- Literary theory in the 1920s : four options and a practicum / Caryl Emerson -- Soviet literary criticism and the formulation of the aesthetics of socialist realism, 1932-1940 / Hans G̈ünther -- Soviet literary theory in the 1930s : battles over genre and the boundaries of modernity / Katerina Clark and Galin Tihanov -- Russian émigré literary criticism and theory between the world wars / Galin Tihanov -- Literary criticism and the institution of literature in the era of war and late Stalinism, 1941-1953 / Evgeny Dobrenko -- Literary criticism during the thaw / Evgeny Dobrenko and Ilya Kalinin -- Literary criticism of the long 1970s and the fate of Soviet liberalism / Mark Lipovetsky and Mikhail Berg -- Discoveries and advances in literary theory, 1960s-1980s : neoformalism, the linguistic model, and beyond / William Mills Todd III -- Literary criticism and the end of the Soviet system, 1985-1991/ Birgit Menzel and Boris Dubin -- The alter ego : émigré literary criticism from World War II to the end of the Soviet Union / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy -- Post-Soviet literary criticism / Ilya Kukulin and Mark Lipovetsky -- Post-Soviet literary studies : the rebirth of academism / Nancy Condee and Eugeniia Kupsan -- Appendix : translated titles of Russian periodicals.…”
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A biocultural approach to literary theory and interpretation / by Easterlin, Nancy

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Poiesis and Possible Worlds : a Study in Modality and Literary Theory. by Martin, Thomas L.

Table of Contents: “…-- An Approach to Metaphor -- Metaphor as Epistemology -- The Varieties of Literary Theory -- Articulating Possibility in Poetic History -- Models of Literature, Modes of Reading -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.…”
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What's Left of Theory? : New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory. by Butler, Judith

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Language, Literature & Meaning : Volume I: Problems of Literary Theory.

Table of Contents: “…LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & MEANING I: PROBLEMS OF LITERARY THEORY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; JAN MUKAŘOVSKÝ: THE BEGINNINGS OF STRUCTURAL AND SEMIOTIC AESTHETICS; REFERENCES; THE AXES OF POETIC LANGUAGE; PRAGUE STRUCTURALISM -- A BRANCH OF THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL MOVEMENT; 1. …”
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Literary discourse : a semiotic-pragmatic approach to literature by Johansen, Jørgen Dines

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Unfolding the mind : the unconscious in American romanticism and literary theory / by Steele, Jeffrey, 1947-

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Postcolonial studies and the literary : theory, interpretation and the novel / by Sorensen, Eli Park, 1979-

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Random walks : essays in elective criticism by Solway, David, 1941-

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Esthetics as nightmare : Russian literary theory, 1855-1870 / by Moser, Charles A.

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From romanticism to critical theory : the philosophy of German literary theory / by Bowie, Andrew, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The philosophy of critique and the critique of philosophy: Romantic literary theory -- 4. Interpretative reasons -- 5. The ethics of interpretation: Schleiermacher -- 6. …”
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Art and answerability : early philosophical essays by Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975

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