Literature in the Modern World
Critical Essays and Documents
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 October 2003
- ISBN 9780199253012
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages552 pages
- Size 233x154x27 mm
- Weight 832 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This text offers a unique combination of British, European, American and Post-Colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight the development of debates, it is designed to engage newcomers to the field with some of the main themes and issues that will concern them as readers of modern literary texts of all genres.
In the second edition, there is an increased focus on questions of gender and identity and on recent debates, such as 'Literature and Nation' and 'Literature and Value'. The reach and relevance of the book has been extended, taking a more international voice, focusing on American and European writers and critics.
Long description:
This text offers a unique combination of British, European, American and Post-Colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight the development of debates, it is designed to engage newcomers to the field with some of the main themes and issues that will concern them as readers of modern literary texts of all genres.
The book provides material that is exciting, original, and above all accessible, rather than simply representative of a certain critical approach. It includes the views of leading critics such as Terry Eagleton, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Umberto Eco and Paul de Man, as well as the originating voices of writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Paul Sartre, Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie.
In the second edition, there is an increased focus on questions of gender and identity and on recent debates, such as 'Literature and Nation' and 'Literature and Value'. The reach and relevance of the book has been extended, taking a more international voice, focusing on American and European writers and critics.
Table of Contents:
General Introduction
Part One: General Approaches
I Questioning the Canon
Introduction
Repossessing the Past: The Case for an Open Literary History
Canon and Period
Literature and the Rise of English
Women Poets
Literary Theory and the Black Tradition
II Interpretation
Introduction
The Babel of Interpretations
Interpreting the Variorium
Who Cares About the Text?
Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory
The Interpreter's Freud
III Commitment
Introduction
To Cambridge Women
Writing, Reading, and the Public
Commitment
Right and Wrong Political Uses of Literature
Part Two: Themes and Issues
I Form and Genre
Introduction
Story and Narrative
Semiotics of Theatrical Performance
The Signs of Drama
Close Reading
II Modernisms
Introduction
Remarks on Poetry
Order in Narrative
Towards a Semiotics of Literature
The Ideology of Modernism
Modernism and the Metropolis
Gender and Modernism
III Literature and Nation
Introduction
Beyond a Boundary
Woman and Nationalism
The Intimate Enemy
The National Longing for Form
Imaginary Homelands
IV Literature and Ideology
Introduction
A Short Organum for the Theatre
Marxist Criticism
The Text Says What It Does Not Say
The Death of the Author
What is an Author?
V Literature and Gender
Introduction
Woman and the Other
Language and Gender
Laugh of the Medusa
Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation
Introduction to Between Men
Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire
VI End of Empire
Introduction
The Discourse of the Orient
Englands of the Mind
Behind the Cliches of Contemporary Theatre
From the Victorian Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador
VII From Commonwealth to Post-Colonial
Introduction
On National Culture
Colonialist Criticism
History of the Voice
Post-Colonial Reconstruction
The Angel of Progress
When Was The Post-Colonial?
VIII Literature and History
Introduction
Theses on the Philosophy of History
History and Fiction
Introduction to Metahistory
The Text, the Poem, and the Problem of Historical Method
The Keening Muse
The Hollow Miracle
Literary History and Literary Modernity
IX Literature and Value
Introduction
What is a Classic
The Exile of Evaluation
