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How to Do Theory

ISBN: 978-1-4051-1580-3
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August 2005, ©2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface.

1. Introduction.

Why Theory?.

Hard Core and Soft Theory.

Modes of Theory.

Theory and Method.

2. Phenomenological Theory: Ingarden.

The Layered Structure of the Work.

Method derived from Theory.

An Example.

3. Hermeneutical Theory: Gadamer..

Understanding.

Method derived from Theory.

An Example.

4. Gestalt Theory: Gombrich..

Schema and Correction.

An Example.

5. Reception Theory: Iser..

Reaction to a State of Criticism.

Interface between Text/Context and Text/Reader.

6. Semiotic Theory: Eco..

The Iconic Sign.

The Aesthetic Idiolect.

An Example.

7. Psychoanalytical Theory: Ehrenzweig. The Creative Process.

An Example.

An Afterthought-Spectacular Imaginig: Lacan.

8. Marxist Theory: Williams..

Reflectionist Theory.

Production.

Examples.

9. Deconstruction: Miller..

Deconstruction at Work.

Deconstruction Exemplified.

10. Anthropological Theory: Gans..

Basics of Generative Anthropology.

An Anthropological View of Literature.

11. Dewey's Art as Experience.

Aesthetic Experience.

Circularity.

An Example.

12. Showalter's “Towards a Feminist Poetics”.

Women as Readers.

Women as Writers.

Revisions and Additions.

13. Theory in Perspective.

An Intellectual Landscape.

The Fabric of Theory.

What does the Multiplicity of Theories tell us?.

14. Postscript-Postcolonial Discourse: Said.

Basic Features of Discourse.

Startegies of Postcolonial Discourse.

The Novel as Imperial Discourse.

Modes of Resistance.

The Order of Postcolonial Discourse.

Appendix A John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn.

Appendix B Edmund Spenser “Februarie: Aegloga Secunda” from The Shepheardes Calender.

Appendix C T.S. Eliot “The Fire Sermon” from The Waste Land.

Index.

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