Rapaport The Literary Theory Toolkit

A Compendium of Concepts and Methods
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9567-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, E-Book

The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendiumof key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study ofliterature in a critical-theoretical context.
* Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literarytexts spanning all periods and genres
* Features a chapter on performance, something not usuallycovered in similar texts
* Covers differing theories of the public sphere, ideology,power, and the social relations necessary for the understanding ofapproaches to literature

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rapaport, Herman

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 CriticalAnalysis
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 (PracticalAesthetics), 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: Husserland 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.