Literature and Theory

This book introduces scholars and students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. It focuses on representative works and authors like Joyce, Dickinson, Beckett, Eliot. It also examines modern literary schools of thought: structuralism, poststructuralism, myth criticism, queer theory, feminism, postcolonialism, and deconstruction.

Literature and Theory is designed to assist students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. Focusing on representative works and authors widely taught across classrooms in the world - Joyce, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Beckett, Eliot, and Octavia Butler - it picks up different aspects of studying literature in an accessible format. The volume also brings together chapters that represent major modern literary schools of thought, including structuralism, poststructuralism, myth criticism, queer theory, feminism, postcolonialism, and deconstruction.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary and critical theory, as well as culture studies.

Autorentext

Sk Sagir Ali is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India. His published works include the edited book Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance Margins and Extremism (Routledge) and the monograph, Culture, Community and Difference in Select Contemporary British Muslim Fictions (forthcoming, Routledge).

Klappentext

Literature and Theory is designed to assist students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. Focusing on representative works and authors widely taught across classrooms in the world - Joyce, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Beckett, Eliot, and Octavia Butler - it picks up different aspects of studying literature in an accessible format. The volume also brings together chapters that represent major modern literary schools of thought, including structuralism, poststructuralism, myth criticism, queer theory, feminism, postcolonialism, and deconstruction. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary and critical theory, as well as culture studies.

Zusammenfassung

Literature and Theory is designed to assist students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. Focusing on representative works and authors widely taught across classrooms in the world Joyce, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Beckett, Eliot, and Octavia Butler it picks up different aspects of studying literature in an accessible format. The volume also brings together chapters that represent major modern literary schools of thought, including structuralism, poststructuralism, myth criticism, queer theory, feminism, postcolonialism, and deconstruction.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary and critical theory, as well as culture studies.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys

SK SAGIR ALI

PART I

Myth Criticism

1 Portrait of Mythical and Archetypal Colour: A Reading of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

DEBADITYA MUKHOPADHYAY

PART II

Poststructuralism and Deconstruction

2 Emily Dickinson's Nature: A Poetic Metaphoricity and the Power of a Poststructuralist Hermeneutic

MOUSUMI GUHA BANERJEE

3 Narrating the New City/ies: Urban Studies in Literature and Cityscapes in Graphic Novels

SUBASHISH BHATTACHARJEE

4 To Save the Tale From the Artist: A Deconstructive Reading of Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

SANKAR PRASAD SINGHA

5 Orpheus's Gaze and the Blanchotian Literature of the Unword: Locating the Ethical Finitudes of the Il y a in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

SWAYAMDIPTA DAS

PART III

Psychoanalytic Criticism

6 The Whore and the Virgin: Sexual Non-Rapport in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Dialectics of the Obsessional Subject

DEEPTESH SEN

7 Truth in Literature: Lacan's Joyce and the Question of Applied Psychoanalysis

DIPANJAN MAITRA

8 Rewriting the Psychotic Other of Author-Function in Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake 93

ARKA CHATTOPADHYAY

PART IV

Queer Theory

9 He Had Beauty, Though: The Queerness of Ruskin Bond's Delhi Is Not Far

NILADRI R. CHATTERJEE

PART V

Reader-Response Criticism

10 The Problematic of Reading: The Intra-Textual Readers in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead

MAMATA SENGUPTA

PART VI

New Historicism

11 Revisiting the Rushdiean peeling, fragmenting palimpsest called Pakistan: A New Historicist-Feminist Approach

NASIMA ISLAM

PART VII

Marxism

12 Marxism and Literary Thought: A View

ANAND PRAKASH

PART VIII

Postcolonialism

13 This Is Not Knowledge; This Is Vanity: Phrenology and the Mimicry of Western Science in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason

SAKOON SINGH

PART IX

Cultural Study

14 Politics of Purity and Pollution: A Study of Cultural Voyeurism in Kanthapura

SK SAGIR ALI

15 Abuse, Coercion, and Power in Octavia Butler's Bloodchild

SHILADITYA SEN

PART X

Translation Study

16 Intermediality and Translation: Pedagogical Possibilities

TUTUN MUKHERJEE

Index