By Pelagia Goulimari
ISBN-10: 0415544319
ISBN-13: 9780415544313
ISBN-10: 0415544327
ISBN-13: 9780415544320
This exceptionally priceless quantity deals an creation to the background of literary feedback and thought from old Greece to the current. Grounded within the shut studying of landmark theoretical texts, whereas trying to motivate the reader's serious reaction, Pelagia Goulimari examines:
- major thinkers and critics from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, stated and Butler;
- key recommendations, subject matters and colleges within the heritage of literary idea: mimesis, thought, cause and emotion, the self, the relation of literature to background, society, tradition and ethics, feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, queer theory;
- genres and events in literary heritage: epic, tragedy, comedy, the radical; Romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism.
Historical connections among theorists and theories are traced and the publication is generously cross-referenced. With invaluable positive aspects akin to key-point conclusions, extra studying sections, descriptive textual content bins, unique headings, and with a entire index, this booklet is the perfect advent to somebody impending literary concept for the 1st time or unusual with the scope of its history.
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