The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context.
- Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all periods and genres
- Features a chapter on performance, something not usually covered in similar texts
- Covers differing theories of the public sphere, ideology, power, and the social relations necessary for the understanding of approaches to literature
Preface Chapter 1: Introductory Tools for Literary Analysis
1.1. Basics
1.2. Common Critical Practices
1.3. Literary Language
1.4. Hermeneutics
1.5. Major 20th Century Schools of Critical Analysis
1.6. Socio-Political Analyses
Chapter 2: Tools for Reading Narrative
2.1. Story and Plot: Fabula and Syuzhet
2.2. Order
2.3. Mimesis/Diegesis
2.4. Free Indirect Discourse
2.5. Interior Monologue
2.6. Diachronic and Synchronic
2.7. Intertextuality
2.8. Dialogism
2.9. Chronotope
2.10. Character Zone
2.11. Focalization
2.12. Narrative Codes
Chapter 3: Tools for Reading Poetry
3.1. Tropes
3.2. Elision
3.3. Resemblance
3.4. Objective Correlative
3.5. Language Poetry
3.6. The New Sentence
3.7. Sound Poetry/Concrete Poetry
3.8. Prosody
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