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986580
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b740950
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Modern North American criticism and theory : : a critical guide /\ edited by Julian Wolfreys.
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Edinburgh :: Edinburgh University Press,, ©2006.
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1 online resource (viii, 236 pages)
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| ISBN
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0748624511
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: 0748626786
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: 1280501561
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: 9780748624515
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: 9780748626786
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: 9781280501562
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| Notes
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"First published as part of The Edinburgh encyclopaedia of modern criticism and theory in 2002"--Title page verso.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Preface; 1. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839"1914) and Semiotics; 2. The New Criticism; 3. The Chicago School; 4. Northrop Frye (1912"1991); 5. The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism; 6. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Norman Holland (1927"), Stanley Fish (1938") and David Bleich (1940"); 7. The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller (1928"), Geoffrey Hartman (1929"), Harold Bloom (1930"), Paul de Man (1919"1983); 8. Deconstruction in America; 9. Fredric Jameson (1934") and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism; 10. Edward W. Said (1935"2003).
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| Abstract
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Focusing on the growth and expansion of critical trends and methodologies, this book offers an introduction to the literary theory in North America. With essays addressing key figures in their historical and cultural contexts, it depicts the change, transformation, and the quest for and affirmation of multiple cultural voices and identities.
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Criticism-- North America.
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Criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Semiotics Theory.
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North America.
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| Dewey Classification
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801.95097
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| LC Classification
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PN99.N7M63 2006eb
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| Added Entry
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Wolfreys, Julian,1958-
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