Twentieth century literary theory : an introductory anthology
Title:
Twentieth century literary theory : an introductory anthology
Author:
Lambropoulos, Vassilis, 1953-
ISBN:
9780887062650
9780887062667
Publication Information:
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1987.
Physical Description:
xix, 521 p. ; 23 cm.
Series:
Intersections : Philosophy and critical theory
Intersections (Albany, N.Y.)
Contents:
Orientation of critical theories / Problems in the study of literature and language / Structure, sign, and play in the human sciences / Preliminary problems / Mode of existence of the literary work / [Symbolic action] / Intentional fallacy / Literature and biography / Tradition and the individual talent
On literary evolution / Dialectics of poetic tradition / Philosophical investigations, sec. 156-67. 197-203 / Conventions / Literary genres / Linguistics and literary history / Heresy of paraphrase / Status of style / Distance and point-of-view: an essay in classification / Discourse typology in prose / Elements of a narrative grammar
What is a text? Explanation and understanding / Demonstration vs. persuasion: two models of critical activity / Psychoanalysis and the polis / Reading process: a phenomenological approach / Writer's audience is always a fiction / Introduction (0.1,0.2) / Taste and the reproduction of art / Reasons and judgments / Contingencies of value