The literary theory toolkit : a compendium of concepts and methods / Herman Rapaport

By:

Herman Rapaport [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, c2011Description: xii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23cmISBN:

9781405170475

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DDC classification:

REF 801.95 R18

Contents:

Preface Chapter 1: Introductory Tools for Literary Analysis 1.1. Basics of literary study 1.2. Common critical practices 1.3. Literary language 1.4. Hermeneutics 1.5. Major 20th century schools of critical analysis 1.6. Socio-political analyses Chapter 2: Tools for reading narrative 2.1. Story and plot: Fabula and Syuzhet 2.2. Order 2.3. Mimesis and diegesis 2.4. Free indirect discourse 2.5. Interior monologue 2.6. Diachronic and synchronic 2.7. Intertextuality 2.8. Dialogism 2.9. Chronotope 2.10. Character zone 2.11. Focalization 2.12. Narrative codes Chapter 3: Tools for reading poetry 3.1. Tropes 3.2. Elision 3.3. Resemblance 3.4. Objective correlative 3.5. Language poetry 3.6. The new sentence 3.7. Sound poetry/concrete poetry 3.8. Prosody Chapter 4: Tools for reading performance 4.1. Performance studies 4.2. Realist theatre: total acting 4.3. Konstantin Stanislavski 4.4. Lee Strasberg (the Method), David Mamet (practical aesthetics), Mary Overlie (the Six Viewpoints approach) 4.5. Epic theatre 4.6. Theater of cruelty 4.7. Actions 4.8. Play 4.9. Happenings 4.10. Performance art 4.11. Guerrilla theatre Chapter 5: Tools for reading texts as systems 5.1. Aristotle and form 5.2. The literary work as object of rational empiricism 5.3. Saussurean linguistics 5.4. Levi-Strauss and structuralism 5.5. Roman Jakobson's communication model 5.6. Roland Barthes' hierarchical structures 5.7. Ideality and phenomenology of the literary object: Husserl and Derrida 5.8. Dissemination 5.9. Structure as rhizome: Deleuze and Guattari 5.10. Permutation 5.11. Undecidability: Derrida, Gödel, Lacan 5.12. Simulating systems: Baudrillard 5.13. Multiplicity: Badiou Chapter 6: Tools for social analysis 6.1. The public sphere 6.2. Ideology 6.3. Theories of power 6.4. The social relation

Summary: "The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context. Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all periods and genres Features a chapter on performance, something not usually covered in similar texts Covers differing theories of the public sphere, ideology, power, and the social relations necessary for the understanding of approaches to literature"-- Provided by publisher

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
REFERENCE BOOKS	LAPULAPU-CEBU INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE RESERVE SECTION	Reference	REF 801.95 R18 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005737

Preface
Chapter 1: Introductory Tools for Literary Analysis
1.1. Basics of literary study
1.2. Common critical practices
1.3. Literary language
1.4. Hermeneutics
1.5. Major 20th century schools of critical analysis
1.6. Socio-political analyses
Chapter 2: Tools for reading narrative
2.1. Story and plot: Fabula and Syuzhet
2.2. Order
2.3. Mimesis and diegesis
2.4. Free indirect discourse
2.5. Interior monologue
2.6. Diachronic and synchronic
2.7. Intertextuality
2.8. Dialogism
2.9. Chronotope
2.10. Character zone
2.11. Focalization
2.12. Narrative codes
Chapter 3: Tools for reading poetry
3.1. Tropes
3.2. Elision
3.3. Resemblance
3.4. Objective correlative
3.5. Language poetry
3.6. The new sentence
3.7. Sound poetry/concrete poetry
3.8. Prosody
Chapter 4: Tools for reading performance
4.1. Performance studies
4.2. Realist theatre: total acting
4.3. Konstantin Stanislavski
4.4. Lee Strasberg (the Method), David Mamet (practical aesthetics), Mary Overlie (the Six Viewpoints approach)
4.5. Epic theatre
4.6. Theater of cruelty
4.7. Actions
4.8. Play
4.9. Happenings
4.10. Performance art
4.11. Guerrilla theatre
Chapter 5: Tools for reading texts as systems
5.1. Aristotle and form
5.2. The literary work as object of rational empiricism
5.3. Saussurean linguistics
5.4. Levi-Strauss and structuralism
5.5. Roman Jakobson's communication model
5.6. Roland Barthes' hierarchical structures
5.7. Ideality and phenomenology of the literary object: Husserl and Derrida
5.8. Dissemination
5.9. Structure as rhizome: Deleuze and Guattari
5.10. Permutation
5.11. Undecidability: Derrida, Gödel, Lacan
5.12. Simulating systems: Baudrillard
5.13. Multiplicity: Badiou
Chapter 6: Tools for social analysis
6.1. The public sphere
6.2. Ideology
6.3. Theories of power
6.4. The social relation

"The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context. Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all periods and genres Features a chapter on performance, something not usually covered in similar texts Covers differing theories of the public sphere, ideology, power, and the social relations necessary for the understanding of approaches to literature"-- Provided by publisher

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