Using critical theory: how to read and write about literature
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| adam_text | Using Critical Theory
How to read and write about literature
Second edition
Lois Tyson
Routledge
Taylor amp; Francis Croup
LONDON AND NEW YORK
Contents
Preface for instructors xiv
Acknowledgments xviii
Permissions xix
1 Critical theory and you 1
What does critical theory have to do with me? 1
What will I learn about critical theory from this book? 3
Critical theory and cultural criticism 6
Three questions about interpretation most students ask 9
My interpretation is my opinion, so how can it be wrong? 9
Do authors deliberately use concepts from critical theories when
they write literary works? 10
How can we interpret a literary work without knowing what
the author intended the work to mean? 11
Wliy feeling confused can be a good sign 1 i
2 Using concepts from reader-response theory
to understand our own literary
interpretations 13
Why should we learn about reader-response theory? 13
Response vehicles 15
Personal identification 15
The familiar character 15
The familiar plot event 15
The familiar setting 15
Response exercises 16
Personal-identification exercise 16
Familiar-character exercise 18
Familiar-plot-event exercise 2 I
Familiar-setting exercise 23
viii Contents
How our personal responses can help or hinder,interpretation 26
The symbolic leap 27
The difference between representing and endorsing
human behavior 28
Using our personal responses to generate paper topics 29
Food for further thought 31
Thinking it over 31
Reader-response theory and cultural criticism 32
Taking the next step 35
Exercises for further practice 35
Suggestions for further reading 36
Using concepts from New Critical theory to
understand literature 38
Why should we learn about New Critical theory? 38
Basic concepts 41
Theme 41
Formal elements 41
Unity 43
Close reading and textual evidence 44
Interpretation exercises 45
Appreciating the importance of tradition: Interpreting
Everyday Use 45
Recognizing the presence of death: Interpreting A Rose
for Emily 51
Understanding the power of alienation: Interpreting »
The Battle Royal 57
Respecting the importance of nonconformity: Interpreting
Don t Explain 63
Responding to the challenge of the unknown: Interpreting
I started Early—Took my Dog 69
Food for further thought 14
Thinking it over 74
New Critical theory and cultural criticism 76
Taking the next step 18
Questions for further practice 78
Suggestions for further reading 80
Using concepts from psychoanalytic theory to
understand literature 81
Why should we learn about psychoanalytic theory? 81
Basic concepts 83
Contents ix
The family 83
Repression and the unconscious 83
The defenses 83
Core issues 84
Dream symbolism 85
Interpretation exercises 86
Analyzing characters dysfunctional behavior: Interpreting
Everyday Use 86
Exploring a character s insanity: Interpreting A Rose
for Emily 91
Understanding dream images in literature: Interpreting
I started Early—Took my Hog 95
Recognizing a character s self-healing: Interpreting Don t
Explain 99
Using psychoanalytic concepts in service of other theories:
Interpreting The Battle Royal 103
Food for further thought 104
Thinking it over 104
Psychoanalytic theory and cultural criticism 106
Taking the next step 108
Questions for further practice 108
Suggestions for further reading 109
Using concepts from Marxist theory to understand
literature 110
Why should we learn about Marxist theory? 110
Basic concepts 112
Classism 112
Capitalism 113
Capitalist ideologies 114
The role of religion 116
Interpretation exercises 116
Understanding the operations ot capitalism: Interpreting
Everyday use 116
Recognizing the operations of the American Dream: Interpreting
The Battle Royal 119
Analyzing the operations of classism: Interpreting A Rose
for Emily 124
Resisting classism: Interpreting Don t Explain 128
Learning when not to use Marxist concepts: Resisting the
temptation to interpret I started Early—Took
my Dog 131
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Food for further thought 133
Thinking it over 133
Marxist theory and cultural criticism 134
Taking the next step 131
Questions for further practice 137
Suggestions for further reading 138
6 Using concepts from feminist theory to understand literature 139
Wlty should we learn about feminist theory? 139
Basic concepts 141
Patriarchy 141
Traditional gender roles 142
The objectification of women 142
Sexism 143
The cult of true womanhood 143
Interpretation exercises 144
Rejecting the objectification of women: Interpreting
The Battle Royal 144
Resisting patriarchal ideology: Interpreting Don t Explain 147
Recognizing a conflicted attitude toward patriarchy:
Interpreting Everyday Use 151
Analyzing a sexist text: Interpreting A Rose for Emily 155
Understanding patriarchy s psychological oppression
of women: Interpreting I started Early—Took my Dog 162
Food for further thought 166
Thinking it over 166 *
Feminist theory and cultural criticism 167
Taking the next step 169
Questions for further practice 169
Suggestions for further reading 170
7 Using concepts from lesbian, gay, and queer theories
to understand literature 172
Wlty should we learn about lesbian, gay, and queer
theories? 112
Basic concepts 175
Heterosexism 175
Homophobia 175
J Homosocial activities 176
The woman-identified woman 176
Homoerotic imagery 177
Queer theory 177
Contents xi
Interpretation exercises 118
Rejecting lesbian stereotypes: Interpreting Don t
Explain 178
Analyzing homophobia: Interpreting The Battle
Royal 182
Recognizing the woman-identified woman in a heterosexual text:
Interpreting Everyday Use 185
Using queer theory: Interpreting A Rose for Emily 191
Drawing upon context: Interpreting I started Early—Took
my Dog 194
Food for further thought 198
Thinking it over 198
Lesbian, gay, and queer theories and cultural criticism 200
Taking the next step 202
Questions for further practice 202
Suggestions for further reading 204
Using concepts from African American theory to
understand literature 206
Why should we learn about African American theory? 206
Basic- concepts 209
African American culture and literature 209
Racism 211
Forms of racism 211
Double consciousness 213
Interpretation exercises 213
Analyzing the overt operations (if institutionalized racism: Interpreting
The Battle Royal 213
Recognizing the less visible operations of institutionalized racism:
Interpreting Don t Explain 217
Understanding the operations of internalized racism: Interpreting
Everyday Use 222
Exploring the function of black characters in white literature:
Interpreting A Rose for Emily 228
Learning when not to use African American concepts:
Resisting the temptation to interpret I started Early—Took
my Dog 234
Food for further thought 231
Thinking it over 237
African American theory and cultural criticism 239
Taking the next step 242
Questions for further practice 242
Suggestions for further reading 244
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9 Using concepts from postcolonial theory to
understand literature 245
Wiry should we learn about postcolonial theory? 245
Basic concepts 248
Colonialist ideology 248
The colonial subject 249
Anticolonialist resistance 250
Interpretation exercises 251
Understanding colonialist ideology: Interpreting The Battle
Royal 251
Analyzing the colonial subject: Interpreting Everyday Use 257
Exploring the influence of cultural categories: Interpreting A Rose for
Emily 264
Appreciating anticolonialist resistance: Interpreting Don t
Explain 268
Recognizing the othering of nature: Interpreting I started
Early—Took my Dog 273
Food for further thought 211
Thinking it over 277
Postcolonial theory and cultural criticism 279 ••
Taking the next step 282
Questions for further practice 282
Suggestions for further reading 284
10 Holding on to what you ve learned 285
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A shorthand overview of our eight critical theories 285
A shorthand overview of our literary interpretation exercises 286
Everyday Use 287
The Battle Royal 288
A Rose for Emily 290
Don t Explain 291
I started Early—Took my Dog 292
A shorthand overview of the range of perspectives offered by each
theory 293
Critical theory and cultural criticism revisited 291
Critical theory and an ethics for a diverse world 300
Appendices
Appendix A: I started Early—Took my Dog (Emily Dickinson,
c 1862) ^ 302
Appendix B: A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner, 1931) 303
Contents xiii
Appendix C: The Battle Royal (Ralph Ellison, 1952) 311
Appendix D: Everyday Use (Alice Walker, 1913) 323
Appendix E: Don t Explain (Jewelle Gomez, 1981) 330
Appendix F: Additional literary works for further practice 338
Index 344
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