Contexts for CriticismDonald Keesey Mayfield Publishing Company, 1998 - 594 pages In this introduction to literary criticism, the major critical theories of literary interpretation-- historical, formal, reader-response, mimetic, intertextual, poststructural, and new historical-- are presented in separate chapters that include detailed introductions, theoretical essays that explain and argue the value of each theory, and applications essays in which the theories are applied to the same three literary works: William Shakespeare' s The Tempest, Kate Chopin' s The Awakening, and William Wordsworth' s Ode: Intimations of Immortality. Wordsworth' s and Chopin' s works are included in the book. |
Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Author as Context | 9 |
Hirsch Jr Objective Interpretation 725 | 17 |
Copyright | |
44 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adèle aesthetic answer Aphrodite argue Arobin audience Awakening become Caliban called character Chopin claim coherence complex concept context conventions cultural deconstruction defined discourse Edna Edna's essay example experience fact feel feminist fiction formal formalist genre Grand Isle human ideology interpretation interpretive community intertextual Kate Chopin Kenneth Burke kind language Lebrun linguistic literary criticism literature look Madame Ratignolle Mademoiselle Reisz meaning ment metaphor metonymy mimetic mind moral narrative nature never Northrop Frye novel object particular perspective play poem poem's poet poetic poetry political Pontellier poststructural poststructuralist Press problem Prospero question reader reader-response reader-response critics reading reality relation response rhetorical Robert seems self-ownership sense Shakespeare simply social speak stanza structuralist structure suggests symbolic Tempest textual theme theory things thought tion truth ture University W. K. Wimsatt woman women words Wordsworth writing