The Literary Theory Toolkit

A Compendium of Concepts and Methods
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7047-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rapaport, Herman

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Chapter 4: Tools for Analyzing Performance

4.1. Performance Studies

4.2. Realist Theatre: Total Acting

4.3. Konstantin Stanislavski

4.4. Lee Strasberg (The Method), David Mamet (Practical Aesthetics), Mary Overlie (The Six Viewpoints Approach)

4.5. Epic Theatre

4.6. Theater of Cruelty

4.7. Actions

4.8. Play

4.9. Happenings

4.10. Performance Art

4.11. Guerrila Theatre

Chapter 5: Tools for Reading Texts as Systems

5.1. Aristotle and Form

5.2. The Literary Work as Object of Rational Empiricism

5.3. Saussurean Linguistics

5.4. Levi-Strauss and Structuralism

5.5. Roman Jakobson’s Communication Model

5.6. Roland Barthes’ Hierarchical Structures

5.7. Ideality and Phenomenology of the Literary Object: Husserl and Derrida

5.8. Dissemination

5.9. Structure as Rhizome: Deleuze and Guattari

5.10. Permutation

5.11. Undecidability: Derrida, Gödel, Lacan

5.12. Simulating Systems: Baudrillard

5.13. Multiplicity: Badiou

Chapter 6: Tools for Social Analysis

6.1. The Public Sphere

6.2. Ideology

6.3. Theories of Power

6.4. The Social Relation

Über Autor(innen)

Herman Rapaport is Reynolds Professor of English, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA. He has published several books on aspects of Jacques Derrida's work and is currently doing research in the Derrida archives for a forthcoming project Archival Derrida.