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Texts and contexts: writing about literature with critical theory

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  • Author: Lynn, Steven
    Date:
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    2013
    Summary:

    This updated edition offers expanded explanations of many of the critical theories, step-by-step reference guides to using each approach, and more examples of students applying critical theory to their own writing. The texts that are analyzed include Hemingway, Shakespeare and Milton.

    Contents:

    Critical worlds: a selective tour
    Unifying the work: new criticism
    Creating the text: reader-response criticism
    Opening up the text: deconstructive criticism
    Connecting the text: biographical, historical, and new historical criticism
    Minding the work: psychological criticism
    Gendering the text: feminist criticism
    Investigating the work: research and documentation

    Genre:
    History and geography, Literary arts
    Subject(s): Academic writing | Authorship | College Readers | Criticism | English Language | History and criticism | Literature | Rhetoric | Theory, etc.
    Original Publisher: New York, Pearson Longman
    Language(s): English