ABSTRACT

Practising Theory and Reading Literature provides an accessible introduction to the study of contemporary literary theories and their applications to a range of literary texts. This is an elementary introduction where the emphasis is on practice, and in this respect it complements A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.

chapter |15 pages

Introduction

chapter |18 pages

Anglo-American Criticism

chapter |11 pages

Russian Formalism

chapter |26 pages

Structuralism

chapter |27 pages

Poststructuralism

chapter |32 pages

Reader-response Criticism

chapter |31 pages

Exercises