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Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook
Critical Teory and Practice answers lots of questions, but also stimulates new ones. Its tailor-made combination of survey, reader and workbook is ideal for the beginning - perhaps even bewildered - student of literary theory.
The work is divided into seven chapters, each of which contains guiding commentary, examples from literary and critical works, and a variety of exercises to provoke and engage you. Each chapter includes a glossary and annotated selection of suggested further reading. There is also a full bibliography.
The authors cover the key issues and debates of literary theory,
* Language, Linguistics and Literature
* Structures of Literature
* Literature and History
* Subjectivity, Psychoanalysis and Criticism
* Reading, Writing and Reception
* Women, Literature and Criticism
* Literature, Criticism and Cultural Identity
Critical Theory and Practice is an refreshingly clear, up-to-date and eminently readable introduction to the subject. It not only guides you through the terminology and gives you a selection of the key passages to read, it also helps you engage with the theory and apply it in practice.
The work is divided into seven chapters, each of which contains guiding commentary, examples from literary and critical works, and a variety of exercises to provoke and engage you. Each chapter includes a glossary and annotated selection of suggested further reading. There is also a full bibliography.
The authors cover the key issues and debates of literary theory,
* Language, Linguistics and Literature
* Structures of Literature
* Literature and History
* Subjectivity, Psychoanalysis and Criticism
* Reading, Writing and Reception
* Women, Literature and Criticism
* Literature, Criticism and Cultural Identity
Critical Theory and Practice is an refreshingly clear, up-to-date and eminently readable introduction to the subject. It not only guides you through the terminology and gives you a selection of the key passages to read, it also helps you engage with the theory and apply it in practice.
364 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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About the author
Keith Green
59 books10 followersKeith Green was a musician (vocalist, pianist, guitarist), songwriter, and author of posthumously published works. His wife [Melody Green] also published his biography after his death: No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green (1989).
In 1965 at age 11,Keith Green became the youngest member of ASCAP for his single A Go-Go Getter. Despite his early attention, his precocious music career failed to materialize as hoped.
Keith married [Melody Green] in 1973 and they became committed Evangelical Christians. They began Last Days Ministries, and moved from California to a ranch in Texas. They began publishing Last Days Newsletter and later Magazine in the 1970s. Keith wrote and recorded Christian music. He was killed in a plane crash in 1982.
In 1965 at age 11,Keith Green became the youngest member of ASCAP for his single A Go-Go Getter. Despite his early attention, his precocious music career failed to materialize as hoped.
Keith married [Melody Green] in 1973 and they became committed Evangelical Christians. They began Last Days Ministries, and moved from California to a ranch in Texas. They began publishing Last Days Newsletter and later Magazine in the 1970s. Keith wrote and recorded Christian music. He was killed in a plane crash in 1982.
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November 6, 2017
Literature and Psychoanalysis:
Psychoanalysis is not primarily a literary practice, unlike many of the other theories discussed in this volume: it is a clinical and therapeutic methodology. However, it has a long and complex relationship to practices of reading and writing and to the assumptions that we make about why people write and how texts affect their readers.
The relationship between psychoanalysis and literature can be looked at in different ways, but we can reduce it to a question of what is being subjected to the analytic process, and what repressed meaning we thereby hope to uncover. SHOSHANA FELMAN explains that we normally tend to see psychoanalysis as the active practice performed upon the passive text:
While literature is considered as a body of language - to be interpreted -psychoanalysis is considered as a body of knowledge, whose competence is called upon to interpret. Psychoanalysis, in other words, occupies the place of a subject, literature that of an object.....
Psychoanalysis is not primarily a literary practice, unlike many of the other theories discussed in this volume: it is a clinical and therapeutic methodology. However, it has a long and complex relationship to practices of reading and writing and to the assumptions that we make about why people write and how texts affect their readers.
The relationship between psychoanalysis and literature can be looked at in different ways, but we can reduce it to a question of what is being subjected to the analytic process, and what repressed meaning we thereby hope to uncover. SHOSHANA FELMAN explains that we normally tend to see psychoanalysis as the active practice performed upon the passive text:
While literature is considered as a body of language - to be interpreted -psychoanalysis is considered as a body of knowledge, whose competence is called upon to interpret. Psychoanalysis, in other words, occupies the place of a subject, literature that of an object.....
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