Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide

Description

This new edition of the classic guide offers a thorough and accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory. It provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African-American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading. This book can be used as the only text in a course or as a precursor to thestudy of primary theoretical works. It motivates readers by showing them what critical theory can offer in terms of their practical understanding of literary texts and in terms of their personal understanding of themselves and the world in which they live. Both engaging and rigorous, it is a "how-to" book for undergraduate and graduate students new to critical theory and for college professors who want to broaden their repertoire of critical approaches to literature.





Thanks!
http://rapidshare.com/files/172055255/CriticThT.zip

Disclaimer:
Contents of this page are indexed from the Internet. All actions are under your responsability. Email us to report illegal contents or external links and we'll remove them immediately.

Please check the description for download links if any or do a search to find alternative books.

Can't Download?
Please search mirrors if you can't find download links for "Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide" in "Description" and someone else may update the links. Check the comments when back to find any updates.

Search Mirrors
Maybe some mirror pages will be helpful, search this book at top of this page or click here to find more info.

1. Ebooks list page : 2075
2. Testing and Measurement: A User-Friendly Guide
3. User Friendly Guide to Multivariate Calibration and Classification
4. Qualitative Data Analysis: A User-Friendly Guide
5. Qualitative Data Analysis: A User-Friendly Guide
6. Qualitative Data Analysis: A User-Friendly Guide
7. The Joy of Money: A User-friendly Guide to the Financial Maze 2006-03
8. The Biostatistics Cookbook: The Most User-Friendly Guide for the Bio/Medical Scientist
9. Critique Today (Social and Critical Theory)
10. The Bible for Blockheads, Revised Edition: A User-Friendly Look at the Good Book
11. The Book of Revelation for Blockheads: A User-Friendly Look at the Bibles Weirdest Book
12. Detection Theory:: A User%27s Guide
13. Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research
14. Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
15. The Future of Human Resource Management: 64 Thought Leaders Explore the Critical HR Issues of Today and Tomorrow
16. Disgust: The Theory and History of a Strong Sensation (Suny Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory).