Empowering Readers: Ten Approaches to NarrativeWakefield Press, 2003 - 146 páginas This book offers ten approaches to reading narrative based on literary theories that have succeeded and competed with each other since the 1950s. Each chapter covers a reading of a major narrative text from the international canon in terms of one selected approach, and suggestions how that text (usually a novel) can also be interpreted by employing others: theory in practice, with the emphasis on practice. Empowering Readers gives an overview of theoretical and critical schools from New Criticism to Postmodernism as well as a fresh, insightful reading of important texts which are on a large number of reading lists. [Back cover]. |
Índice
Narrative fiction history science talk Alec McHoul 1 Introduction | 1 |
Tom Jones and Realism | 2 |
Dangerous Liaisons and Point of View | 3 |
Frankenstein and Reception | 4 |
115 | 25 |
Oliver Twist and Myth | 52 |
6 | 54 |
The Brothers Karamazov and Biography | 67 |
The Turn of the Screw and Psychoanalysis | 78 |
Heart of Darkness and Marxism | 89 |
Dora and Deconstruction | 100 |
A Passage to India and Postcolonialism | 113 |
An Open Swimmer and Postmodernism | 128 |
References | 135 |
144 | |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Adela Alyosha analysis approach aspects Aziz beginning biography Brothers Karamazov called chapter character characteristic Claude Lévi-Strauss colonisation context course Dangerous Liaisons deal death desire Dickens Dora Dora's Dostoevsky dream effect epistolary epistolary novel evil example explicitly Fagin father Fielding Fielding's film Forster Frankenstein Freud governess Heart of Darkness hero Holquist human Ian Watt Indians interpretation intertextuality Jerra Jewel Jones kind Kurtz least letters Lévi-Strauss literary Lukács Marlow Marquise de Merteuil marxist Mary Shelley meaning mind monster mother myth mythic narrative situation narrator nature novel novelist Oliver Twist Open Swimmer particular Passage to India perhaps person plot point of view postmodernism postmodernist psychoanalytical quest question quoted readers refer relationship represent seen sense sexual Sikes social story structure suggest tells things thought Tom Jones turn unconscious Valmont Vicomte de Valmont Victor Frankenstein word writes