Raman Selden (1937–1991)

Aims to provide an accessible introduction to the study of contemporary literary theories and their applications to a range of literary texts. This is an elementary introduction where the emphasis is on practice, and in this respect it complements A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.

This book has become something of a classic and, in a field as rapidly developing as literary theory, a guide which has been hailed as the most up to date of its kind, must take account of new developments. [The author] has now substantially revised the text..., adding...three new sections on Postmodernism, Discourse Theory and New Historicism as well as an expanded section on feminist criticism. In addition, the very latest ideas and new bearings have been taken into account in the revision show more of each chapter. The book remains the most easily accessible account of contemporary literary theory, elucidating clearly and precisely the main theoretical developments in Europe and the United States, from the most influential of the earlier writers – Bakhtin, Brecht, Lukacs and Adorno – through to recent theorists - Derridea, Lacan, Foucault, Iser, Kristeva, Cixous, de Man, Eagleton and Jameson – whose work has had such widespread impact. show less

Over recent years interested in literary theory has increased markedly. Theory has become a central part of literary study and this anthology of extracts of literary criticism and theory will be an important aid to understanding this subject.

Un repaso por las teorías literarias al uso en el momento de publicarse el libro:

-el formalismo ruso (Shklovsky, Tomachevski, Jakobson, Bakhtin, Mukarovsky...),
-las teorías marxistas (Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Eagleton, Jameson...),
-las teorías estructuralistas (Saussure, Barthes, Propp, Lévi-Strauss, Greimas, Todorov, Genette, Jakobson, Lodge, Jonathan Culler...),
-las teorías postestructuralistas (Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, show more De Man, White, Bloom, Hartman, Miller, Michel Foucault, Edward Said...),
-la teoría de la recepción (Gerald Prince, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Wolfgang Iser, Hans Robert Jauss, Stanley Fish, Michael Riffaterre, Jonathan Culler, Norman Holland, David Bleich...),
-la crítica feminista (Beauvoir, Kate Millett, Michèle Barret, Showalter, Woolf, Ellman, Mitchell, Lacan, Kristeva, Cixous...) show less