1st Edition

Practising Theory and Reading Literature An Introduction

By Raman Selden Copyright 1990

    Practising Theory and Reading Literature provides an accessible introduction to the study of contemporary literary theories and their applications to a range of literary texts. This is an elementary introduction where the emphasis is on practice, and in this respect it complements A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 Anglo-American Criticism; Chapter 2 Russian Formalism; Chapter 3 Structuralism; Chapter 4 Poststructuralism; Chapter 5 Reader-response Criticism; Chapter 6 Marxist and Feminist Criticism; Chapter 7 Exercises;

    Biography

    Raman Selden is late Professor of English at the University of Sunderland.