Beginning theory : an introduction to literary and cultural theory / Peter Barry.

Author/creator Barry, Peter, 1947-
Format Book
Edition3rd ed.
Publication InfoManchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Descriptionxii, 338 pages ; 20 cm.
Subjects

SeriesBeginnings
Beginnings (Manchester, England) ^A1026338
Partial contents Introduction -- Theory before 'theory' : liberal humanism -- Structuralism. Structuralist chickens and liberal humanist eggs ; Signs of the fathers : Saussure -- Post-structuralism and deconstruction -- Postmodernism. 'Landmarks' in postmodernism : Habermas, Lyotard and Baudrillard -- Psychoanalytic criticism. How Freudian interpretation works ; Freud and evidence ; Lacan -- Feminist criticism -- Lesbian/gay criticism -- Marxist criticism. 'Leninist' Marxist criticism ; 'Engelsian' Marxist criticism ; The present : the influence of Althusser -- New historicism and cultural materialism. New historicism and Foucault -- Postcolonial criticism -- Stylistics -- Narratology. Telling stories ; Aristotle ; Vladimir Propp ; Gérard Genette -- Ecocriticism -- Literary theory : a history in ten events. The Indiana University 'Confernce on style', 1958 ; The John Hopkins University international symposium, 1966 ; The publication of Deconstruction and criticism, 1979 ; The MacCabe Affair, 1981 ; The publication of Eagleton's Literary theory: an introduction, 1983 ; J. Hillis Miller's MLA presidential address, 1986 ; The Strathclyde University 'Linguistics of writing' conference, 1986 ; The scandal over Paul de Man's wartime writings, 1987-88 ; Jean Baudrillard and 'The Gulf War never happened', 1991 ; The Sokal Affair, 1996 -- Theory after 'theory' -- Appendix 1. Edgar Allen Poe, 'The oval portrait' -- Appendix 2. Dylan Thomas, 'A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London' -- Appendix 3. William Cowper, 'The castaway' -- Where do we go from here? : further reading.
General notePrevious ed.: 2002.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [325]-330) and index.
Genre/formEinführung.
ISBN9780719079276 (pbk.)
ISBN0719079276 (pbk.)

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