Contemporary Literary Theory : a student's companion /
Krishnaswamy, N.
Contemporary Literary Theory : a student's companion / N. Krishnaswamy . - New Delhi : Macmillan , 2012 . - 160 p. ;
I- UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS:
1- Changing worlds and changing words;
2- Post-modernism and before;
II- CURRENT CRITICAL APPROACHES:
3- Post-structuralism: deconstruction;
4- Psychoanalytic criticism;
5- Social discourse;
6- Reader-oriented theories;
7- Gender-based approaches:(feminism, lesbianism, gay-criticism);
8- Historical approaches: New historicism, cultural materialism;
9- Colonial contexts: Post/neo colonial criticism;
10- Socio-economic approaches;
III- OTHER CRITICAL APPROACHES:
11- Formalism: Russian and French;
12- Anglo-American practical/new criticism;
13- Structuralism;
14- Stylistics;
IV- CONCLUSION:
15- Earlier traces and emerging tendencies
Supplement Literary criticism in India;
Glossary;
Bibliography;
Index.
0333937120
801.95 / KRI
Contemporary Literary Theory : a student's companion / N. Krishnaswamy . - New Delhi : Macmillan , 2012 . - 160 p. ;
I- UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS:
1- Changing worlds and changing words;
2- Post-modernism and before;
II- CURRENT CRITICAL APPROACHES:
3- Post-structuralism: deconstruction;
4- Psychoanalytic criticism;
5- Social discourse;
6- Reader-oriented theories;
7- Gender-based approaches:(feminism, lesbianism, gay-criticism);
8- Historical approaches: New historicism, cultural materialism;
9- Colonial contexts: Post/neo colonial criticism;
10- Socio-economic approaches;
III- OTHER CRITICAL APPROACHES:
11- Formalism: Russian and French;
12- Anglo-American practical/new criticism;
13- Structuralism;
14- Stylistics;
IV- CONCLUSION:
15- Earlier traces and emerging tendencies
Supplement Literary criticism in India;
Glossary;
Bibliography;
Index.
0333937120
801.95 / KRI