Texts shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural, and media texts ranging from short stories, autobiographies, political speeches, websites, and lyrics to such films as The Matrix and Harry Potter, to television shows like Big Brother, and to shopping malls, celebrities, and rock videos. Each chapter combines an introduction to the text and aspects of its critical reception with an analysis using one of sixteen key approaches, including established angles like feminism, postcolonial studies, and deconstruction to newer areas such as ecocriticism,…mehr
Texts shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural, and media texts ranging from short stories, autobiographies, political speeches, websites, and lyrics to such films as The Matrix and Harry Potter, to television shows like Big Brother, and to shopping malls, celebrities, and rock videos. Each chapter combines an introduction to the text and aspects of its critical reception with an analysis using one of sixteen key approaches, including established angles like feminism, postcolonial studies, and deconstruction to newer areas such as ecocriticism, trauma theory, and ethical criticism. Texts provides students with an innovative introduction to contemporary culture.
Peter Childs is Dean of Research and Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire where he teaches twentieth-century and post-colonial literature. He has published widely in the areas of modern writing, British culture and critical theory.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Starting Points 1. Film: The Matrix and The I-pod Approach: Cyberphilosophy 2. Building: Shopping in Utopia Approach: Spatial Criticism 3. Movie Poster: Alien Nature Approach: Ecocriticism 4. Pop video: Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' and 'race' Approach: 'Race' Studies 5. Celebrity: Diana and Death Approach: Trauma Theory 6. TV show: Big Brother after the big Other Approach: Performativity Theory 7. Newspaper article: The Gulf War in Real Time and Virtual Space Approach: Hyperreality 8. Photograph(er): Cindy Sherman and the Masquerade Approach: Feminism 9. Political speech: Margaret Thatcher's Hymn at the Sermon on the Mound Approach: Historicism 10. Critical text: Alan Sokal's Sham Transgression Approach: Reading Postmodernism 11. Popular novel: The Ethics of Harry Potter Approach: Ethical Criticism 12. Short story: Barthelme's Balloon and the Rhizome Approach: Deleuzian Criticism 13. Lyric: 'Where's my Snare?': Eminem and Sylvia Plath Approach: Psychoanalytic Criticism 14. Autobiography: Martin Amis's Experience Approach: Self-Life-Writing 15. Virtual text: Amazonian Democracy Approach: Globalization Studies 16. World media event: It's About Time: Cultural History at the Millennium Approach: Cultural Studies.
Introduction: Starting Points 1. Film: The Matrix and The I-pod Approach: Cyberphilosophy 2. Building: Shopping in Utopia Approach: Spatial Criticism 3. Movie Poster: Alien Nature Approach: Ecocriticism 4. Pop video: Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' and 'race' Approach: 'Race' Studies 5. Celebrity: Diana and Death Approach: Trauma Theory 6. TV show: Big Brother after the big Other Approach: Performativity Theory 7. Newspaper article: The Gulf War in Real Time and Virtual Space Approach: Hyperreality 8. Photograph(er): Cindy Sherman and the Masquerade Approach: Feminism 9. Political speech: Margaret Thatcher's Hymn at the Sermon on the Mound Approach: Historicism 10. Critical text: Alan Sokal's Sham Transgression Approach: Reading Postmodernism 11. Popular novel: The Ethics of Harry Potter Approach: Ethical Criticism 12. Short story: Barthelme's Balloon and the Rhizome Approach: Deleuzian Criticism 13. Lyric: 'Where's my Snare?': Eminem and Sylvia Plath Approach: Psychoanalytic Criticism 14. Autobiography: Martin Amis's Experience Approach: Self-Life-Writing 15. Virtual text: Amazonian Democracy Approach: Globalization Studies 16. World media event: It's About Time: Cultural History at the Millennium Approach: Cultural Studies.
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