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The new edition of this core text has been thoroughly revised and updated in light of the latest developments in the field. The original structure of the book has been improved and new material has been added. Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory, the text includes those essays and documents that are essential reading for students of critical theory, with sections on: formalism and structuralism; marxism; feminism; gender and subjectivity; histories and textuality; postmodernism; postcolonialism.
For the first time, the reader also includes extracts from seminal texts by authors such as Marx, Freud, and de Beauvoir - texts which do not necessarily focus on literature but which have had a fundamental influence on the development of literary theory. In addition, the text now includes a section on issues and debates. Focusing not on authors or approaches but rather on leading questions in critical debate, the extracts in this section present opposing points of view on the same issue: Is literary criticism an ethical act? Martha Nussbaum vs Emmanuel Levinas: Is the canon a timeless assembly of great works? Terry Eagleton vs Harold Bloom: Is literature what the academy says it is? Edward Said vs Stanley Fish: Literature and the philosophy of science: Richard Rorty vs Donna Harraway
For the first time, the reader also includes extracts from seminal texts by authors such as Marx, Freud, and de Beauvoir - texts which do not necessarily focus on literature but which have had a fundamental influence on the development of literary theory. In addition, the text now includes a section on issues and debates. Focusing not on authors or approaches but rather on leading questions in critical debate, the extracts in this section present opposing points of view on the same issue: Is literary criticism an ethical act? Martha Nussbaum vs Emmanuel Levinas: Is the canon a timeless assembly of great works? Terry Eagleton vs Harold Bloom: Is literature what the academy says it is? Edward Said vs Stanley Fish: Literature and the philosophy of science: Richard Rorty vs Donna Harraway
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Patricia Waugh, Durham University, UK
Philip Rice, formerly at Coventry University, UK
Philip Rice, formerly at Coventry University, UK
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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whether or not you are choosing theory courses in a literature degree, theory is inescapable. this book is essential for the second year, but i would recommend dipping into it earlier if you can, as it does cover a wide range of topics from marxism etc. right through to the more modern cyborg theory.
it is hard going but don't be discouraged, this only means you will have to re-read the extracts that interest you. i also found the introductions before each new theory were very helpful.
it is hard going but don't be discouraged, this only means you will have to re-read the extracts that interest you. i also found the introductions before each new theory were very helpful.
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5 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Garbage but important garbage for academics
4 April 2006
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This is the kind of book graduate programs assign in order to discuss important literary theories. And most of the literary theories in this collection are considered important by academics - which is why academic cultural criticism is so abyssmal. Deconstructionism, Marxism, Feminism and Historicism are all theories that have their place in the masturbatory realm of academic cultural criticism which has dominated most programs. All the essays use jargon to cover up their basic stupidity. You'll read essays about how categories are automatically patriarchal and sexist. You'll read Feminist Criticism which can all be encapsulized with "Everything this writer writes is sexist garbage" and you'll read Foucault's suspicious critique of mental illness as a social construct (of course, when those social constructs commit suicide, a fat lot of good that essay will do them). Of course, there's also Bell Hooks talking about how the standard literary criticism doesn't address racial concerns. Of course, Bell Hooks has yet to actually write anything that is honest-to-god literary criticism, but her attacks on literary criticism as not being leftwing enough are amusing. Now if only the leaders of the Civil Rights movement would just acknowledge the contribution made by a graduate students rabid critique of Moby Dick, maybe she'd be on to something.
Yet, amidst the clutter of babbling tomfoolery there are moments of clarity. Despite Gilber & Gruber's "Madwoman in the Attic" being loaded with the standard "women are marginalized", it's got enough power to justify its existence. The editors included Harold Bloom in the collection to discuss how most of the New Criticism schools are merely victim mentality and declare literature to be elitist and G-d bless it.
After reading msot of these essays, you'll either be a full blown academic drone or sending love letters to Harold Bloom (and Camille Paglia - his favorite disciple).
Of course, if you are thinking of buying this book, you probably have no choice.
Yet, amidst the clutter of babbling tomfoolery there are moments of clarity. Despite Gilber & Gruber's "Madwoman in the Attic" being loaded with the standard "women are marginalized", it's got enough power to justify its existence. The editors included Harold Bloom in the collection to discuss how most of the New Criticism schools are merely victim mentality and declare literature to be elitist and G-d bless it.
After reading msot of these essays, you'll either be a full blown academic drone or sending love letters to Harold Bloom (and Camille Paglia - his favorite disciple).
Of course, if you are thinking of buying this book, you probably have no choice.
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