20th Century Western Literary Criticism Theory

Author: Zhu Gang
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Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Features: As one of the "Graduate Textbooks for English Language and Literature Majors in Higher Education Institutions," this book selects representative works from various literary criticism schools since the 20th century. It includes excerpts from classic works of schools such as Russian Formalism, Anglo-American New Criticism, Marxist Literary Criticism, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Myth and Archetype Criticism, Structuralism, Reader Response Criticism, Deconstructionism, Feminist Criticism, New Historicism, Post-Colonial Criticism, Gender Studies, and Cultural Studies. Each article is preceded by an introduction written by the author, briefly introducing the characteristics of the school and its developmental origins. Due to the editor's deep expertise in Western literary theory, the selected materials are highly refined, and the introductions are concise, well-structured, and appropriately detailed, providing great benefit to readers engaged in the study of British and American literature.