Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory, 7th edition

Published by Pearson (July 14, 2021) © 2017

  • Steven Jay Lynn Binghamton University
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Texts and Contexts teaches you how to write about literature by considering how readers behave and what assumptions they might make while interacting with literary text. The authors cover literary theory as well as provide overviews of literature and examples of how to write about them.

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Table of contents

  1. An Introduction, Theoretically
  2. Critical Words: A Selective Tour
  3. Unifying the Work: New Criticism
  4. Creating the Text: Reader-Response Criticism
  5. Opening Up the Text: Structuralism and Deconstruction
  6. Connecting the Text: Historical and New Historical Criticism
  7. Minding the Work: Psychological Criticism
  8. Gendering the Text: Feminist Criticism, Post-feminism, and Queer Theory

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