This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism. A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism .
Roman Jakobson, one of the most important thinkers of our century, was best known for his role in the rise and spread of the structuralist approach to linguistics and literature. His formative years with the Russian Futurists and subsequent involvement in the Moscow and Prague Linguistic Circles (which he co-founded) resulted in a lifelong devotion to fundamental change in both literary theory and linguistics. In bringing each to bear upon the other, he enlivened both disciplines; if a literary work was to him a linguistic fact, it was also a semiotic phenomenon -part of the entire universe of signs.
Literary Theory: An Anthology is a definitive collection of classic and contemporary statements in the field of literary theory and criticism. It is an invaluable resource for students who wish to familiarize themselves with the most recent developments in literary theory and with the traditions from which these new theories are derived.The anthology represents all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory.
Timeless literary masterpieces--such as Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of
Notre-Dame (1831) and The Miserables (1862), Flaubert's Madame Bovary
(1857), and Camus' The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947)--have been
the subject of copious literary criticism since their publications.
This volume has been developed specifically to help students and
general readers reach a deeper understanding of eight French novels,
enabling them to develop a true appreciation for why the works have
been regarded as masterpieces. Lucid yet challenging literary analysis
focuses on plot and character development, themes, style, and
biographical and historical context.
Through criticism of British cultural studies, New Historicism and cultural materialism, Easthope examines the discipline of cultural studies as it comes out of literary studies.
