A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory, 5th ed.PN94 2004-063377 0-582-89410-7 A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory, 5th ed. Selden, Raman et al. Longman, [c]2005 302 p. $32.00 (pa) In a series of ten concise articles, contributors describe such schools of thought as new criticism, moral formalism Formalism or Russian Formalism Russian school of literary criticism that flourished from 1914 to 1928. Making use of the linguistic theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, Formalists were concerned with what technical devices make a literary text literary, apart and F.R. Leavis, Russian formalism Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars (Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Boris Eichenbaum, Roman Jakobson, Grigory Vinokur) who and the Bakhtin School, reader-oriented theories, structuralism structuralism, theory that uses culturally interconnected signs to reconstruct systems of relationships rather than studying isolated, material things in themselves. This method found wide use from the early 20th cent. , Marxist theories, feminism, poststructuralism poststructuralism: see deconstruction. poststructuralism Movement in literary criticism and philosophy begun in France in the late 1960s. Drawing upon the linguistic theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, the anthropology of Claude Lévi-Strauss ( , postmodernism, postcolonialism and gay. Lesbian and queer theories. Widdowson (literary studies, U. of Gloustershire) and Brooker (literary and cultural studies, U. of Nottingham), the surviving authors, have updated this edition to keep up with current trends. |
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