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. Acknowledgments.
Chapter 1: Introductory Tools for Literary Analysis.
1.1. Basics of Literary Study.
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.
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