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Informationen zum Autor Dennis Walder is Professor of Literature at the Open University and Founding Director of the Literature Department's Colonial and Post-Colonial Research Group. He has published widely on topics ranging from Dickens to V.S. Naipaul. Klappentext This text offers a unique combination of English, European, American and Post-Colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight the development of debates, it is designed to engage newcomers to the field with some of the main themes and issues that will concern them as readers of modern literary texts of all genres. In the second edition, there is an increased focus on questions of gender and identity and on recent debates, such as "Literature and Nation" and "Literature and Value." The reach and relevance of the book has been extended, including more writers and critics from the world beyond Europe. Zusammenfassung This text offers a unique combination of British, European, American and Post-Colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight the development of debates, it is designed to engage newcomers to the field with some of the main themes and issues that will concern them as readers of modern literary texts of all genres.The book provides material that is exciting, original, and above all accessible, rather than simply representative of a certain critical approach. It includes the views of leading critics such as Terry Eagleton, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Umberto Eco and Paul de Man, as well as the originating voices of writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Paul Sartre, Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie. In the second edition, there is an increased focus on questions of gender and identity and on recent debates, such as 'Literature and Nation' and 'Literature and Value'. The reach and relevance of the book has been extended, taking a more international voice, focusing on American and European writers and critics. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Introduction Part One: General Approaches I Questioning the Canon Introduction 1: Marylin Butler: Repossessing the Past: The Case for an Open Literary History 2: Frank Kermode: Canon and Period 3: Terry Eagleton: Literature and the Rise of English 4: Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar: Women Poets 5: Henry Louis Gates, Jnr.: Literary Theory and the Black Tradition II Interpretation Introduction 1: E. D. Hirsch, Jnr.: The Babel of Interpretations 2: Stanley Fish: Interpreting the Variorium 3: Robert Scholes: Who Cares About the Text? 4: Hans Robert Jauss: Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory 5: Geoffrey Hartman: The Interpreter's Freud III Commitment Introduction 1: Virginia Woolf: To Cambridge Women 2: Jean-Paul Sartre: Writing, Reading, and the Public 3: Theodor Adorno: Commitment 4: Italo Calvino: Right and Wrong Political Uses of Literature Part Two: Themes and Issues I Form and Genre Introduction 1: Seymour Chatman: Story and Narrative 2: Umberto Eco: Semiotics of Theatrical Performance 3: Martin Esslin: The Signs of Drama Close Reading II Modernisms Introduction 1: Paul Valery: Remarks on Poetry 2: Gerard Genette: Order in Narrative 3: Robert Scholes: Towards a Semiotics of Literature 4: George Lukacs: The Ideology of Modernism 5: Raymond Williams: Modernism and the Metropolis 6: Bonnie Kime Scott: Gender and Modernism III Literature and Nation Introduction 1: C. L. R. James: Beyond a Boundary 2: Virginia Woolf: Woman and Nationalism 3: Ashis Nandy: The Intimate Enemy 4: Timothy Brennan: The National Longing for Form 5: Salman Rushdie: Imaginary Homelands IV Literature and Ideology Introduction 1: Bertolt Brecht: A Short Organum for the Theatre ...
