Literary Theory
An Introductory Reader
This essential reader provides a thorough grounding in the basics of literary theory.
Imprint: Anthem Press India
ISBN 9789380601052
May 2010
| 325 Pages
| 234 x 156mm; 9.2 x 6.1
| PRICE: Rs 395.00 |
About This Book
This reader provides a thorough grounding in the basics of literary theory. ‘Literary Theory: An Introductory Reader’ has taken care to provide introductions to all the sections of the book, providing the basic features of each branch of theory as well as summaries of the articles included therein. The articles contain copious footnotes clarifying and elaborating key concepts and providing additional explanatory background material to benefit the student reader.
This reader provides a thorough grounding in the basics of literary theory. It is designed specifically for the optional ninth paper on literary theory offered to BA (English Hons.) students of the University of Delhi, but equally beneficial for all students and scholars of English literary theory in India and abroad.
Readership:
For students and scholars of English literature and literary theory.
Author Information
Saugata Bhaduri is Associate Professor at the Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His recent books include ‘Perspectives on Comparative Literature and Culture in the Age of Globalization’ (Anthem, 2010), ‘Translating Power’ (Katha, 2009), ‘Les Yogasutras de Patañjali’ (Editions Alphée, 2008) and ‘Negotiating Glocalization’ (Anthem, 2008).
Simi Malhotra is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Coordinator of Media and Culture, and Coordinator of International Relations at Jamia Millia Islamia (National Islamic University), New Delhi. Her areas of research interest include contemporary literary and cultural theory (with special focus on the politics of postmodernism and globalization), and popular culture studies, in both of which she has guided research and published extensively.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Preface; MARXISM: Introduction; ANTONIO GRAMSCI: The Formation of the Intellectual; LOUIS ALTHUSSER: Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation); GEORG LUKAKS: Critical Realism and Socialist Realism; FEMINISM: Introduction; ELAINE SHOWALTER: The Female Tradition; JULIET MITCHELL: Femininity, Narrative and Socialist Realism; MICHELE BARRETT: Ideology and the Cultural Production of Gender; POSTCOLONIANISM: Introduction; GAURI VISWANATHAN; The Beginnings of English Literature Study in British India; AIJAZ AHMED; 'Indian Literature': Notes towards the Definition of a Category; GAYATRI C. SPIVAK: Can the Subaltern Speak?; POSTMODERNISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES: Introduction; JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD: Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?; RAYMOND WILLIAMS: Forms; STEPHEN GREENBLATT: Renaissance Self-Fashioning: Introduction; Note on the Editors
