ABSTRACT
Literature and Theory is designed to assist students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. Focusing on representative works and authors widely taught across classrooms in the world – Joyce, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Beckett, Eliot, and Octavia Butler – it picks up different aspects of studying literature in an accessible format. The volume also brings together chapters that represent major modern literary schools of thought, including structuralism, poststructuralism, myth criticism, queer theory, feminism, postcolonialism, and deconstruction.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary and critical theory, as well as culture studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|11 pages
Myth Criticism
chapter 1|9 pages
Portrait of Mythical and Archetypal Colour
part II|41 pages
Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
chapter 2|11 pages
Emily Dickinson's "Nature"
chapter 3|9 pages
Narrating the "New City/ies"
chapter 4|8 pages
"To Save the Tale from the Artist"
chapter 5|11 pages
Orpheus's Gaze and the Blanchotian Literature of the Unword
part III|41 pages
Psychoanalytic Criticism
chapter 6|12 pages
The Whore and the Virgin
part IV|10 pages
Queer Theory
part V|11 pages
Reader-Response Criticism
chapter 10|9 pages
The Problematic of Reading
section VI|12 pages
New Historicism
chapter 11|10 pages
Revisiting the Rushdiean Peeling, Fragmenting Palimpsest Called Pakistan
part VII|16 pages
Marxism
section VIII|12 pages
Postcolonialism
chapter 13|10 pages
"This Is Not Knowledge; This Is Vanity"
part IX|19 pages
Cultural Study
part X|12 pages
Translation Study