From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens
of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for
approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative,
clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from
established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each
chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a
single theory, critic, or issue, accompanied by concrete examples
for applying the concepts and engaging suggestions for related
literary readings.
Following a section on the foundations of literary theory, the
book is organized thematically, with an eye to the best way to
develop a real, working understanding of the various theories.
Cross-references are particularly important, since it's through the
interaction of examples that readers most effectively advance from
basic topics and arguments to some of the more specialized and
complicated issues.
Each chapter is designed to tell a complete story, yet also to
reach out to other chapters for development and debate. Literary
theorists are hardly unified in their views, and this book reflects
the various traditions, agreements, influences, and squabbles that
are a part of the field.
Special features include hundreds of references to and
quotations from novels, stories, plays, poems, movies, and other
media. Online resources could also include video and music clips,
as well as high-quality examples of visual art mentioned in the
book. The book also includes periodic "running" references to
selected key titles (such as "Frankenstein") in order to illustrate
the effect of different theories on a single work.
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