An Outline History of Literary Criticism : Theory and Practice
Contents: Preface. 1. Criticism: an introduction. 2. What is psychoanalytic criticism. 3. Phenomenology hermeneutics existentialism and critical theory. 4. Beyond the antinomies of structure: Levi Strauss Giddens Bourdieu and Sewell. 5. Critical theory post structuralism and the philosophy of liberation. 6. Positivism postmodernism or critical theory. 7. Twentieth century literary criticism. 8. Voice and address in literary theory. 9. Rhetorical criticism of literary artifacts. 10. Economic insights from and about literature drama and literary criticism. Bibliography. Index.
Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the nature of literature and of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. However literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes in addition to or even instead of literary theory in the strict sense considerations of intellectual history moral philosophy social prophecy and other interdisciplinary themes which are of relevance to the way humans interpret meaning. In the humanities the latter style of scholarship is often called simply theory. As a consequence the word theory has become an umbrella term for a variety of scholarly approaches to reading texts. Most of these approaches are informed by various strands of continental philosophy. (jacket)
Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the nature of literature and of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. However literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes in addition to or even instead of literary theory in the strict sense considerations of intellectual history moral philosophy social prophecy and other interdisciplinary themes which are of relevance to the way humans interpret meaning. In the humanities the latter style of scholarship is often called simply theory. As a consequence the word theory has become an umbrella term for a variety of scholarly approaches to reading texts. Most of these approaches are informed by various strands of continental philosophy. (jacket)
