Author

Publication

2012 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780300180831
  • Open LibraryOL25115845M

Classifications

  • DDC801/.95
  • LCCPN441 .F79 2012
  • LCCPN441.F79 2012

Description

"Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them hermeneutics, modes of formalism, semiotics and Structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic approaches, Marxist and historicist approaches, theories of social identity, Neo-pragmatism and theory. By incorporating philosophical and social perspectives to connect these many trends, the author offers readers a coherent overall context for a deeper and richer reading of literature"--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The open Yale courses series

Other Editions

  • Theory of literatureYale University Press2012-01-01

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