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The book's brevity and informal and engaging tone offers a welcome counterpoint to the often cryptic, staid approaches of its competitors, as it speaks directly to contemporary students and their experiences. Sets itself apart conceptually by its inclusion of several progressive critical approaches, including Postcolonial and Race Studies, Queer Theory and Reader-Response Theory. The text contains several attractive pedagogical features, including summary charts, "common misunderstandings" for each chapter, informative text boxes throughout each chapter, and photos of the theorists it covers. Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies presents an up-to-date, concise, and wide-ranging historicist survey of contemporary thinking in critical theory. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in literary and critical theory, this is the only book of its kind that thoroughly merges literary studies with cultural studies, including film. Robert Dale Parker provides a critical look at the major movements in literary studies since the 1930s, including those often omitted from other texts. He includes chapters on New Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Queer Studies, Marxism, Historicism and Cultural Studies, Postcolonial and Race Studies, and Reader Response. Parker weaves connections among chapters, showing how these different ways of thinking respond to and build upon each other. Through these exchanges, he prepares students to join contemporary dialogues in literary and cultural studies. Parker's engaging writing style relates directly to today's students and their daily lives. He underscores the connections between critical theory and students' other coursework, as well as its links to their technologically filled lives. The text is enhanced by charts, text boxes that address frequently asked questions, photos, and a bibliography. Intellectually challenging yet remarkably readable-and devoted to the interpretation of both literary and cultural studies-How to Interpret Literature stands out from other surveys of critical theory. Its flexible format makes this volume ideal as either a stand-alone text or in conjunction with an anthology of primary readings.

Literature --- 82.09 --- Literaire kritiek --- 82.09 Literaire kritiek --- Criticism --- History --- Critique --- Littérature --- 20e siècle --- Philosophie

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American literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- Indians of North America --- Indians in literature --- Indian authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life --- Indianen in de literatuur --- Indiens dans la litterature --- Indians of Central America in literature --- Indians of Mexico in literature --- Indians of North America in literature --- Indians of South America in literature --- Indians of the West Indies in literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Indian authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Mathews, John Joseph --- McNickle, D'Arcy --- Silko, Leslie Marmon --- King, Thomas --- American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism. --- American literature - 20th century - History and criticism. --- Indians of North America - Intellectual life

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