Literature and Theory (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys
Redaktion: Ali, Sk Sagir

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Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces scholars and students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. It focuses on representative works and authors like Joyce, Dickinson, Beckett, Eliot. It also examines modern literary schools of thought: structuralism, poststructuralism, myth criticism, queer theory, feminism, postcolonialism, and deconstruction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000591323
• Artikelnr.: 64001928

Autorenporträt

Sk Sagir Ali is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India. His published works include the edited book Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance Margins and Extremism (Routledge) and the monograph, Culture, Community and Difference in Select Contemporary British Muslim Fictions (forthcoming, Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction - Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical
Surveys
SK SAGIR ALI
PART I
Myth Criticism
1 Portrait of Mythical and Archetypal Colour: A Reading of A Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Man
DEBADITYA MUKHOPADHYAY
PART II
Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
2 Emily Dickinson's "Nature": A Poetic Metaphoricity and the Power of a
Poststructuralist Hermeneutic
MOUSUMI GUHA BANERJEE
3 Narrating the "New City/ies": Urban Studies in Literature and Cityscapes
in Graphic Novels
SUBASHISH BHATTACHARJEE
4 "To Save the Tale From the Artist": A Deconstructive Reading of
Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
SANKAR PRASAD SINGHA
5 Orpheus's Gaze and the Blanchotian Literature of the Unword: Locating the
Ethical Finitudes of the Il y a in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
SWAYAMDIPTA DAS
PART III
Psychoanalytic Criticism
6 The Whore and the Virgin: Sexual Non-Rapport in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot
and Dialectics of the Obsessional Subject
DEEPTESH SEN
7 Truth in Literature: Lacan's Joyce and the Question of Applied
Psychoanalysis
DIPANJAN MAITRA
8 Rewriting the Psychotic Other of Author-Function in Peter Carey's My Life
as a Fake 93
ARKA CHATTOPADHYAY
PART IV
Queer Theory
9 "He Had Beauty, Though": The Queerness of Ruskin Bond's Delhi Is Not Far
NILADRI R. CHATTERJEE
PART V
Reader-Response Criticism
10 The Problematic of Reading: The Intra-Textual Readers in Leslie Marmon
Silko's Almanac of the Dead
MAMATA SENGUPTA
PART VI
New Historicism
11 Revisiting the Rushdiean peeling, fragmenting palimpsest called
Pakistan: A New Historicist-Feminist Approach
NASIMA ISLAM
PART VII
Marxism
12 Marxism and Literary Thought: A View
ANAND PRAKASH
PART VIII
Postcolonialism
13 "This Is Not Knowledge; This Is Vanity": Phrenology and the Mimicry of
Western Science in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason
SAKOON SINGH
PART IX
Cultural Study
14 Politics of Purity and Pollution: A Study of Cultural Voyeurism in
Kanthapura
SK SAGIR ALI
15 Abuse, Coercion, and Power in Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild"
SHILADITYA SEN
PART X
Translation Study
16 Intermediality and Translation: Pedagogical Possibilities
TUTUN MUKHERJEE
Index