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The complete idiot's guide to literary theory and criticism: [a reader-friendly look at the schools of thought that shaped the books we love]

From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, this helpful guide gives you everything you need to know to really understand literature, as well as references to and quotations from novels, stories, poems, plays, and more

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Main Author:	Venturino, Steven J. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Indianapolis, IN Alpha Books 2013
Series:	Complete idiot's guide
Subjects:	Literatur Criticism Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc Literature > Appreciation Ecocriticism
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, this helpful guide gives you everything you need to know to really understand literature, as well as references to and quotations from novels, stories, poems, plays, and more
Item Description:	Includes index
Physical Description:	xiv, 322 S. ill. 24 cm
ISBN:	9781615642410 1615642412

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adam_text	Contents Part 1: Basic Ingredients and Useful Terms .........................1 1 It s Just a Theory ..........................................................3 You Can t Help It ...........................................................................4 So Which Is It, Theory or Criticism? ..........................................5 Getting Some Perspective .............................................................5 Suspicious Minds .........................................................................6 Do Writers Know All This Stuff? ................................................7 Stick to the Script ...........................................................................8 Real Worlds and Real Words .........................................................9 2 What s the Word for That, Again? ........................... ΊΊ Two Sides of the Coin ..................................................................11 Theme .......................................................................................12 Form .........................................................................................13 Order, Please .................................................................................14 Plot ...........................................................................................14 Motif. ........................................................................................ 15 Who Are These People? ..............................................................16 Narrators .................................................................................16 Characterization ........................................................................19 Writers Love Details ...................................................................20 Imagery .....................................................................................21 Figurative Language .................................................................22 Part 2: In Theory, How Do You Read? ...............................25 3 New Criticism Looks Very Closely .........................27 Everything Fits Together ............................................................28 Buy Organic ..............................................................................28 Cant I Just Read? ....................................................................29 In Other Words, There Are So Other Hords .............................29 Reading Closely for What? ........................................................30 There s a Pattern Here ..............................................................31 .Vo, You re Sot Reading Too Much Into It .................................32 Ironic, Isn t It ...........................................................................33 What s Wrong with Old Criticism? ........................................34 Feelinas, Sotbing More Than Feelings .......................................35 Did the Author Really Mean That? ...........................................35 iv The Complete Idloťi Guld· to Literary Theory and Criticism Everyone s a Critic .......................................................................36 Who Begs to Differ? ...................................................................37 4 Russian Formalism Fixates on the Machinery .... 39 Look At the Text, Not Through It ...............................................40 Not Content with Form and Content .........................................40 A Scientific Basis for Literary Study ..........................................41 Why Did They Do This? ...........................................................42 1rs What Art Really Is ..............................................................42 Habit Dulls Our Perception .......................................................43 Make the Ordinary Strange .......................................................44 Make the Artistry Obvious ..........................................................46 Revealing the Tricks ...................................................................46 Plot vs. Story-Stuff. ...................................................................49 Literary History Is the Interplay of Form ..................................50 5 Reader-Response Criticism Watches Itself ..........53 In the Eye of the Beholder ...........................................................53 Making It Up as You Go Along .................................................54 Show Your Work ....................................................................... tf Draw a Blank ............................................................................56 Crack the Code ...........................................................................58 Making You Up as It Goes Along ..............................................60 YouAreTbere ........................................................................60 Group Dynamics. .......................................................................61 GettmgReal ..............................................................................62 Regaining Consciousness .............................................................62 6 Aristotle and Friends Plot the Course ..................65 Reading for Fun and (Intellectual) Profit ...................................66 DtltgbtfulInstruction ................................................................67 Get It Out of Your System, or Sot .............................................68 Mime in § Box. ..........................................................................70 Plot Changes Everything .............................................................71 The Rules of the Game ...............................................................72 One Ring to Rule Them AU .......................................................75 They re Just Guidelines, Really ...................................................75 Contents Part 3: What Is Literature! Anyway? ..................................77 7 Plato s Fundamental Gripe Against Literature. ...79 What s the Big Idea Here? ...........................................................80 Me and My Shadows ................................................................80 A True Original ........................................................................83 Cheat Sheets ..............................................................................84 Writers Blocked ............................................................................86 Bad Influence .............................................................................86 Madness and Magnets ...............................................................81 Famous Platonic Relationships ....................................................89 8 The Romantics Get Defensive .................................91 Plato II: Revenge of the Poets .....................................................93 A Sincere Apology ......................................................................94 Iťsjust My Nature ...................................................................95 Wordsworth s Emotional Rescue ................................................97 Coleridge s Fevered Imagination ...............................................100 Keats and Beautiful Truthiness .................................................102 Shelley Gets Played Like a Harp ..............................................104 9 Marx Sees Through the Material World ..............109 Immersed in the System ...........................................................110 Alma Mater-ialism ...................................................................... Ill Leu Simplify Things ...............................................................¡12 Living the Dream ....................................................................113 Wake Up and Smell the Ideology ..............................................114 Get Real ................................................................................... IIS Shocking Audiences Worldzide ................................................. Ill Return of the Repressed ............................................................¡19 10 Freud Sees a Symptom ............................................121 Thinking Big .............................................................................. 121 What Do You Have in Mind? ................................................... 123 Dream Weaving ..........................................................................126 Literature on the Couch ............................................................129 Must Be About Sex ..................................................................131 Unless Iťs About Death ...........................................................133 vi Th· Compiti· Idloťs Guld· to Literary Theory and Criticism 11 Saussure and Science Settle Into a Good Read ...............................................................435 Must Be a Sign ............................................................................136 Adding Some Structure .............................................................138 Just a Slice, Please ................................................................... IľsYourMove ......................................................................... Stop in for Great Values ..........................................................141 Everybody Gets in On the Act ..................................................143 It s All in Your Head ..................................................................145 Part 4: Hey, Whose Book Is This? .....................................149 12 Feminist Theories Change the Game ...................151 Is This Pedestal High Enough for You? ...................................152 Particularly Universal .............................................................152 Its Only Natural, Isn t hi .......................................................154 Girl, That Rochester Is Bad News ............................................156 Diving Into the Stereotypists Pool ..........................................158 Writing Circles Around You .....................................................160 Evoking Phases ........................................................................161 Body Works ..............................................................................162 What Do You Mean, uWe*ł ....................................................162 13 Gender and Queer Theories Read Desire ...........165 Tending Gender .........................................................................166 Typecasting Sexuality ................................................................168 Pride Fest....................................................................................170 Beyond Stonewall .....................................................................170 Lesbian Revisions .....................................................................172 It s Showtime! ..............................................................................174 Beyond Gay and Straight ............................................................175 14 Ethnic Studies Changes the Key ...........................179 Are You What You Read? ..........................................................179 National Sensations ................................................................. ¡SO Pleme Chea One of the Boxes .................................................. ¡SI American Autograph ..................................................................182 Write Makes Might ................................................................. m Modem Swkjeas ...................................................................... Contents vii Theory Turns .............................................................................188 Reading Like a Writer .............................................................189 Well, That Figures ...................................................................190 Borders and Belongings ............................................................192 15 Disability Studies Gets Physical ............................195 Social Ills .....................................................................................196 Marked Bodies .........................................................................197 Stormirí Normirí.................................................................... 199 Posing Gender ............................................................................201 Book It .........................................................................................203 Lean on Me ............................................................................. 20Ì I See What You Mean ..............................................................204 Thinking Otheiivise .................................................................206 Aud, Isn t It? ................................................................................207 Part 5: Try to Watch Your Language ................................211 16 Structuralism Senses a Pattern Here ...................213 Patterns and Rules .......................................................................214 Not What It Means, but How Does It Mean? .........................215 Oh That Old Chestnut (or, Why So Grimm?) .........................216 Working the Story ......................................................................217 Logical Tools ............................................................................2/7 Jung at Art (or, Svingin a Myth) ...........................................218 It s the Economy .......................................................................219 Does This Tie Match My Signifying System? .........................220 Great Expectations .....................................................................221 So You Say ..................................................................................223 17 Deconstruction Says It s Not What You Think .........................................................................225 Philosophy s Low Opinion or Language .................................226 Truth First .............................................................................. 22Ί With Writing in Mind ............................................................ 22S Bye-Bye Binary ...........................................................................229 Tex t ing from Work ....................................................................232 Living in the Material Word .....................................................234 viii Tht Compitt· Idiot s Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism 18 Psychology Brings Linguistics to the Couch .... 237 Post-Structuralist Mind .............................................................238 Mirror, Mirror, Then the Wall ...............................................238 Subjects of Significance ............................................................240 Getting Saussure Stuck in Your Head ......................................240 Chain Letters ...........................................................................242 Taking Your Place ....................................................................243 Baby Talk (Or, a Womb with a View) .......................................244 Who s Pulling the Strings? .......................................................247 Part 6: In the World and Of the World ............................249 19 Cultural Studies Tries to Ruin a Good Time .......251 High Fives for High Culture .....................................................252 The Culture Industry ................................................................253 Enlighten Me—No, Don t .......................................................254 New Forms for New Minds ..................................................... 2S6 MakingCopies .........................................................................257 Material Feelings ........................................................................258 Freaky Styley ...........................................................................259 Who Are Your References? .......................................................260 What Just Happened? ................................................................261 The Pastiche Prologue ..............................................................263 Wait, Ut Me Finish ................................................................265 20 History Gets Literary ...............................................267 New and Improved .....................................................................268 Plotting Along in the Past .........................................................268 There s Culture in My Poetry! ..................................................270 Making the Connections ...........................................................272 Knowing Looks .......................................................................273 Deem / Knorr When to Quit ....................................................214 Russian Legacy ...........................................................................275 / Hear Vans. ...........................................................................275 Step Into My Parlor .................................................................276 Contents ix 21 Postcolonial Criticism Flaunts the Fashions .....279 Reading Between the Lands ......................................................280 Us and Them ..............................................................................282 Return to Thornfield .................................................................284 Look at It This Way .................................................................285 Other Others ...........................................................................286 Choosing Your Words Carefully ...............................................287 Are You Lookin at Meì .............................................................288 22 Ecocriticism Offers a Word from Our Sponsor .....................................................................291 Hit the Ground Running ..........................................................291 It s Writing, Naturally ...............................................................294 Portrait of the Land asa Young Woman ..................................297 Varieties of Kcocritical Kxperience ...........................................298 Seeing But Not Scene ..............................................................299 Collective Energies ...................................................................299 Glossary .....................................................................303 Index ...........................................................................309
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