TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brooker,Peter
AU  - Widdowson,Peter
TI  - A practical reader in contemporary literary theory
SN  - 0134425677
AV  - PN94. B76 1996
U1  - 801.950904 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf
KW  - Criticism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; A Note on the Text --; Introduction: Theory and Criticism at the Present Time --; 1; William Shakespeare: Hamlet --; 1.1; T. S. Eliot: 'Hamlet' --; 1.2; Jacques Lacan: 'Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet' --; 1.3; Elaine Showalter: 'Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism' --; 1.4; Jacqueline Rose: 'Hamlet - the "Mona Lisa" of Literature' --; 1.5; Lisa Jardine: '"No Offence i' th' World": Hamlet and Unlawful Marriage' --; 2; William Wordsworth: 'Ode - Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood' --; 2.1; Cleanth Brooks: 'Wordsworth and the Paradox of the Imagination' --; 2.2; Geoffrey H. Hartman: '"Timely Utterance" Once More' --; 2.3; Marjorie Levinson: 'The Intimations Ode: A Timely Utterance' --; 3; Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre --; 3.1; Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own --; 3.2; The Marxist-Feminist Literature Collective: 'Women's Writing: Jane Eyre' --; 3.3; Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar: 'A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress' --; 3.4; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism' --; 4; George Eliot: Middlemarch --; 4.1; F. R. Leavis: The Great Tradition --; 4.2; Raymond Williams: The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence --; 4.3; Terry Eagleton: Criticism and Ideology --; 4.4; J. Hillis Miller: 'Optic and Semiotic in Middlemarch' --; 4.5; Colin MacCabe: James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word --; 5; Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dadan Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest --; 5.1; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Epistemology of the Closet --; 5.2; Jonathan Dollimore: Sexual Dissidence --; 5.3; Joseph Bristow: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' --; 5.4; Alan Sinfield: 'Picturing Dorian Gray' --; 5.5; Terry Eagleton: 'Oscar' --; 6; Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness --; 6.1; F. R. Leavis: The Great Tradition --; 6.2; Tzvetan Todorov: 'Heart of Darkness' --; 6.3; Chinua Achebe: 'An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness' --; 6.4; Edward Said: 'Two Visions in Heart of Darkness' --; 7; James Joyce: Ulysses --; 7.1; Helene Cixous: 'Joyce: The (R)use of Writing' --; 7.2; Raymond Williams: The Country and the City --; 7.3; Wolfgang Iser: 'Doing Things in Style: An Interpretation of "The Oxen of the Sun" in James Joyce's Ulysses' --; 7.4; Fredric Jameson: 'Ulysses in History' --; 7.5; Jacques Derrida: 'Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce' --; 8; Bertolt Brecht: Theory and Late Plays --; 8.1; Walter Benjamin: Understanding Brecht --; 8.2; Georg Lukacs: The Meaning of Contemporary Realism --; 8.3; Theodor Adorno: 'Commitment' --; 8.4; Roland Barthes: 'The Tasks of Brechtian Criticism' and 'Literature and Signification' --; 8.5; Louis Althusser: 'The "Piccolo Teatro": Bertolazzi and Brecht. Notes on a Materialist Theatre' --; 8.6; Herbert Marcuse: The Aesthetic Dimension --; 8.7; John Fuegi: The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht --; 9; Toni Morrison: Beloved --; 9.1; Mae G. Henderson: 'Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-membering the Body as Historical Text' --; 9.2; Paul Gilroy: '"Not a Story to Pass On": Living Memory and the Slave Sublime' --; 9.3; Homi K. Bhabha: The Location of Culture --; 9.4; Lynne Pearce: 'Gendering the Chronotope: Beloved' --; 9.5; Peter Nicholls: 'The Belated Postmodern: History, Phantoms and Toni Morrison' --; 10; Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses --; 10.1; Linda Hutcheon: 'Re-presenting the Past' --; 10.2; Aijaz Ahmad: 'Salman Rushdie's Shame: Postmodem Migrancy and the Representation of Women' --; 10.3; Gayatri Chakvravorty Spivak: 'Reading The Satanic Verses' --; Acknowledgements
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