This textbook captures the fundamental moments in thinking about literature and art in English speaking countries in Renaissance, Neoclassicism, romanticism, Victorian era and in the first half of the 20th century (New Criticism) with references to the ancient era (Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Pseudo-Longinus) and to modern and contemporary theories in the Czech Lands and in France (structuralism, deconstruction, feminist criticism and gender studies). The historical overview is complemented with brief information on fundamental notions and terms in literary theory. This textbook is intended for students of humanities at universities.
Author(s): Procházka, Martin
Edition: 1
Publisher: Karolinum Press Charles University
Year: 2015
Language: English
Tags: Literary Criticism, Critical Thinking, Literary Theory
Contents
PART ONE: HISTORICAL OUTLINE OF LITERARY THEORIES
Introduction
APPROACHES TO AESTHETICS AND LITERARY THEORY
M.H. ABRAMS’S TYPOLOGY OF LITERARY THEORIES
Antiquity: Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus
PLATO AND PLATONISM
ARISTOTLE’S POETICS
ANCIENT ROME: HORACE AND LONGINUS
Renaissance
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: THE DEFENSE OF POESIE OR AN APOLOGIE FOR POETRIE
Classicism, Augustan Age, Neoclassicism
JOHN DRYDEN (1631–1700)
ALEXANDER POPE (1688–1744)
DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709–1784)
Romanticism
The Victorians
THOMAS CARLYLE (1795–1881)
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822–1888)
JOHN RUSKIN (1819–1900)
WILLIAM MORRIS (1834–1896)
WALTER PATER (1839–1894)
New Criticism
Structuralism and Semiotics
ROMAN JAKOBSON (1896–1982)
RENÉ WELLEK AND AUSTIN WARREN: THEORY OF LITERATURE
NORTHROP FRYE AND ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM
ROLAND BARTHES: MYTHOLOGIES
Deconstruction: an Introduction
Deconstruction in America
New Historicism
Feminist and Psychoanalytic Criticism
FEMINIST CRITICISM
PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM
PART TWO: CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Metaphor
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Allegory
Symbol
Metre
Rhyme
Free Verse
Drama
Narrative Poetry
Narrative Structures
Bibliography
