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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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
*You*AreTbere
........................................................................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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