Laga Barry - Using Key Passages To Understand Literature Theory And Criticism - PaperbackBinding: Paperback Description: Using Key Passages to Understand Literature Theory and Criticism is a completely fresh and innovative approach to teaching and learning literary theory: using short passages of theory to make sense of literary and cultural texts. It focuses on the key concepts that help readers understand literature and cultural events in new and provocative ways. Covering a wide variety of iconic and contemporary theorists the book
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Description: Using Key Passages to Understand Literature Theory and Criticism is a completely fresh and innovative approach to teaching and learning literary theory: using short passages of theory to make sense of literary and cultural texts. It focuses on the key concepts that help readers understand literature and cultural events in new and provocative ways. Covering a wide variety of iconic and contemporary theorists the book offers a broad chronological and global overview including thirty passages from theorists such as Viktor Shklovsky Roland Barthes Judith Butler Diana Fuss Jean Baudrillard Kwame Anthony Appiah Michel Foucault Monique Wittig and Eve Sedgwick. Built on the premise that scholars use theory pragmatically Using Key Passages to Understand Literature Theory and Criticism identifies problems puzzles and questions readers may encounter when they read a story watch a film or look at artwork. It explains in detail thirty concepts that help readers make sense of these works and invites students to apply the concepts to a range of writing and research projects. The textbook concludes by helping students read theory with an eye on finding productive passages and writing their own theory chapter signaling a shift from student as critic to student as theorist. Used as a main text in introductory theory courses or as a supplement to any literature film theater or art course this book helps students read closely and think critically.
Title: Using Key Passages To Understand Literature Theory And Criticism
Author(s): Laga Barry
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138561977
Pages: 246 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2018
Category: Literary Studies: General
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Laga Barry - Using Key Passages To Understand Literature Theory And Criticism - Paperback