Literary theory : a very short introduction

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Title:

Author:

Culler, Jonathan D.

ISBN:

9780192853189

Personal Author:

Culler, Jonathan D.

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Physical Description:

145 p.

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

1. What is Theory? -- 2. What is Literature and Does it Matter? -- 3. Literature and Cultural Studies -- 4. Language, Meaning, and Interpretation -- 5. Rhetoric, Poetics, and Poetry -- 6. Narrative -- 7. Performative Language -- 8. Identity, Identification, and the Subject -- App. Theoretical Schools and Movements.

Subject Term:

Criticism.

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Summary

What is Literary Theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is Literature, and does it matter? These are the sorts of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in a book which steers a clear path through a subject often perceived to be complex and impenetrable. It offers discerning insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience, and outlines the ideas behind a number of different schools: deconstruction, semiotics, postcolonial theory, and structuralism amongst them.