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Literary Theoryselected reading
This is a list of books which offer straightforward and readable approaches to literary theory. Most of these writers have a concern to explain complex ideas in everyday language (so far as that is possible).
M.H.Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms, London: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1986. Wayne Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Richard Dutton, An Introduction to Literary Criticism, London: Longman, 1984. Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell, 1983. Roger Fowler, Linguistics and the Novel, London: Methuen, 1977. Jeremy Hawthorn (ed), Criticism and Critical Theory, London: Arnold, 1984.
Jonathan Culler's Literary Theory: a very short introduction explains the various schools of literary criticism by choosing a set of topics and showing what various literary theories have to say about them. His emphasis is on the main schools of the last fifty years - from close reading, structuralism, reader-response, Marxism, and Deconstruction, and post-Modernism.
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Jeremy Hawthorn, Studying the Novel, London: Arnold, 1985. Jeremy Hawthorn, Unlocking the Text, London: Arnold, 1988. Ann Jefferson and David Robey (eds), Modern Literary Theory, London: Batsford, 1986. David Lodge (ed), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, London: Longman, 1972. David Lodge (ed), Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, London: Longman, 1988. Raman Selden, A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, Brighton: Harvester, 1985. Dale Spender, Man Made Language, London: Routledge, 1980. Jeremy Tambling, What is Literary Language?, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1988. Roger Webster, Studying Literary Theory: An Introduction, London: Arnold, 1990. |
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