Theory of Literature (The Open Yale Courses Series) by Paul Fry
Theory of Literature (The Open Yale Courses Series) by Paul Fry
English | ISBN: 0300180837 | 2011 | MOBI/PDF | 400 pages | 0.8/2.8 MB
English | ISBN: 0300180837 | 2011 | MOBI/PDF | 400 pages | 0.8/2.8 MB
Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory.At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them hermeneutics, modes of formalism, semiotics and Structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic approaches, Marxist and historicist approaches, theories of social identity, Neo-pragmatism and theory. By incorporating philosophical and social perspectives to connect these many trends, the author offers readers a coherent overall context for a deeper and richer reading of literature.