In this introduction to literary criticism, the major critical theories of literary interpretation�historical, formal, reader-response, mimetic, intertextual, poststructural, and new historical�are presented in separate chapters that include detailed introductions, �theoretical� essays that explain and argue the value of each theory, and �applications� essays in which the theories are applied to the same three literary works: William Shakespeare�s The Tempest, Kate Chopin�s The Awakening, and William Wordsworth�s �Ode: Intimations of Immortality.� Wordsworth�s and Chopin�s works are included in the book.
Authors
Donald Keesey
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- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781559348447
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