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Understanding Contemporary American Literary Theory (Understanding Contemporary American Literature (Paperback))
Michael P. Spikes
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Description for Understanding Contemporary American Literary Theory (Understanding Contemporary American Literature (Paperback))
Paperback. An appraisal of six theorists who have shaped America's literary landscape. It offers analyses of their principle claims and illustrates how their works reflect a range of critical perspectives, also including a short history of 20th-century theory and criticism. Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 227.
This work is an appraisal of six theorists who have shaped America's literary landscape; Stanley Fish, Susan Bordo, Paul de Man, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Edward W.Said and Stephen Greenblatt. Underscoring the largely heterogenous mix of strategies and suppositions that these critics represent it offers concise analyses of their principle claims and illustrates how their works reflect a range of critical perspectives, from deconstruction, African American studies, and reader-response theory to political criticism, the new historicism and feminism. The study is prefaced with a short history of theory and criticism in the twentieth century and each of the theorists is ... Read more
This work is an appraisal of six theorists who have shaped America's literary landscape; Stanley Fish, Susan Bordo, Paul de Man, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Edward W.Said and Stephen Greenblatt. Underscoring the largely heterogenous mix of strategies and suppositions that these critics represent it offers concise analyses of their principle claims and illustrates how their works reflect a range of critical perspectives, from deconstruction, African American studies, and reader-response theory to political criticism, the new historicism and feminism. The study is prefaced with a short history of theory and criticism in the twentieth century and each of the theorists is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Understanding Contemporary American Literature
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570034985
SKU
V9781570034985
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About Michael P. Spikes
Born in Indianola, Mississippi, Michael P. Spikes is a professor of English at Arkansas State University. Spikes lives in State University, Arkansas.
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