Title Studying literature : the essential companion / Jeremy Hawthorn, Paul Goring, Domhnall Mitchell

Published London : Arnold ; New York : Co-published in the United States of America by the Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description viii, 411 pages ; 24 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction 7 -- Who is this guide for? 7 -- Is such a guide really necessary? 7 -- 'Literary', 'primary', 'secondary': a note on terminology 8 -- Getting organized 9 -- Your degree scheme 9 -- Preparing for courses 10 -- Getting the most from lectures, seminars and tutorials 11 -- Using the library 14 -- Using computers 19 -- Reading literary texts 20 -- Reading and studying: general points 21 -- Reading prose fiction: novels, novellas and short stories 25 -- Reading drama 36 -- Reading poetry 49 -- Literary criticism 63 -- What is literary criticism? 63 -- How to find relevant criticism 65 -- Using criticism 67 -- Writing essays 68 -- Analyzing the question 69 -- Formulating and structuring an argument 72 -- Applying literary theory in essays 74 -- Writing 79 -- Guidelines on presentation/style 85 -- Plagiarism and how to avoid it 89 -- Making a presentation 91 -- -- -- -- Exams 93 -- Preparation and revision 93 -- Taking exams 96 -- Some introductory comments 101 -- Electronic media: opening definitions 102 -- Finding primary electronic information 104 -- Issues of reliability 107 -- Assessing authority and reliability 108 -- Downloading literary texts 110 -- Reading in the electronic age 111 -- Searching and analyzing electronic texts 112 -- Browsing the Web 113 -- Evaluating secondary sources 116 -- Secondary sources 118 -- Bibliographies 118 -- Periodicals 120 -- Web sites 121 -- Listservs (e-mail discussion groups) 121 -- Newsgroups 124 -- Revising and editing electronically 125 -- Documenting electronic media 126 -- Safety measures 131 -- Why theory? 135 -- Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain 136 -- Reinventing the wheel 136 -- The theoretical object 137 -- Types of theory 138 -- Descriptive or prescriptive? 138 -- Literature-specific? 139 -- Butcher or biologist? 139 -- School or theory? 140 -- Chosen or thrust-upon? 141 -- 1Theory and method 142 -- A note on our groupings 143 -- Forrmalisms 143 -- Russian Folmalism 144 -- ragtue School 146 -- New Criticism 148 -- -- -- -- The Hermeneutic tradition 152 -- Hermeneutics 152 -- Phenomenology 156 -- Reception theory 158 -- Reader-response criticism 159 -- Structuralism and its progeny 162 -- Structuralism 163 -- Semiology/semiotics 165 -- Narratology 168 -- Post-structuralism 169 -- Deconstruction 170 -- Pragmatics and the reaction against structuralism 173 -- Speech-act theory 174 -- Psychological and psychoanalytic theories 176 -- Psychoanalytic criticism 177 -- Archetypal criticism 180 -- 'Isms' 182 -- Marxist theory and criticism 184 -- Frankfurt School 186 -- New Historicism and cultural materialism 186 -- Postcolonialism 191 -- Feminism 191 -- Queer theory 195 -- Mikhail Bakhtin 313 -- Roland Barthes 315 -- Simone de Beauvoir 317 -- Walter Benjamin 318 -- Homi K. Bhabha 319 -- Harold Bloom 321 -- Bertolt Brecht 323 -- H61lne Cixous 324 -- Jacques Derrida 326 -- Terry Eagleton 328 -- Umberto Eco 329 -- TS. Eliot 331 -- William Empson 333 -- Stanley Fish 334 -- -- -- -- Michel Foucault 336 -- Northrop Frye 339 -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr 340 -- G6rard Genette 342 -- Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 343 -- Lucien Goldmann 344 -- Stephen Jay Greenblatt 346 -- E.D. Hirsch Jr 349 -- bell hooks 351 -- Luce Irigaray 352 -- Wolfgang Iser 354 -- Roman Jakobson 356 -- Fredric Jameson 358 -- Julia Kristeva 360 -- Jacques Lacan 362 -- F.R. Leavis 364 -- Georg Lukacs 367 -- Jean-Francois Lyotard 369 -- Jerome McGann 371 -- Paul de Man 372 -- J. Hillis Miller 374 -- Kate Millett 376 -- Vladimir Propp 378 -- I.A. Richards 379 -- Paul Ricoeur 381 -- Edward Said 382 -- Ferdinand de Saussure 384 -- Viktor Shklovsky 385 -- Elaine Showalter 387 -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 388 -- Tzvetan Todorov 391 -- Rene Wellek 393 -- Raymond Williams 394 -- Virginia Woolf 397 -- Bibliography 400 Summary "Studying Literature: The Essential Companion is a book designed to accompany students of literature - whether on English, combined humanities or foreign-language degrees - throughout the whole of their studies. This is a one-stop reference for all the information they need, both on their subject and on the best way to go about studying it." "Combining a concise glossary of critical terms and theories, a guide to literary theorists and a study skills guide in one, the Companion is written with a real awareness of the needs of students today and blends academic rigour with essential practical information."--BOOK JACKET Bibliography Bibliography: pages [401]-411 Includes bibliographical references Subject English literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) English literature -- History and criticism -- Examinations -- Study guides. Literature -- History and criticism -- Examinations -- Study guides. Literature -- Terminology. Criticism -- Terminology. Literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) Criticism. Genre/Form Terminology. Study guides. Study guides. Dictionaries. Author Hawthorn, Jeremy. Mitchell, Domhnall, 1962- LC no. 2002279153 ISBN 0340759453 0340759461 paperback

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