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100	1		_aTyson, Lois, _d1950- _eauthor. _9413172
245	1	0	_aCritical theory today : _ba user-friendly guide / _cLois Tyson.
246	3	0	_aUser-friendly guide
250			_aSecond edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c[2006]
264		4	_c©2006
300			_axiv, 465 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_g1. _tEverything you wanted to know about critical theory but were afraid to ask -- _g2. _tPsychoanalytic criticism -- _g3. _tMarxist criticism -- _g4. _tFeminist criticism -- _g5. _tNew criticism -- _g6. _tReader-response criticism -- _g7. _tStructuralist criticism -- _g8. _tDeconstructive criticism -- _g9. _tNew historical and cultural criticism -- _g10. _tLesbian, gay, and queer criticism -- _g11. _tAfrican American criticism -- _g12. _tPostcolonial criticism -- _g13. _tGaining an overview.
520			_a"This new edition of the classic guide offers a thorough and accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory. It provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African-American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading. This book can be used as the only text in a course or as a precursor to the studyof primary theoretical works. It motivates readers by showing them what critical theory can offer in terms of their practical understanding of literary texts and in terms of their personal understanding of themselves and the world in which they live. Both engaging and rigorous, it is a "how-to" book for undergraduate and graduate students new to critical theory and for college professors who want to broaden their repertoire of critical approaches to literature."--Publisher description.
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