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Viva Books - Originals From Text to theory by Pramod K Nayar
Approaching theory through textual analysis, this handbook is a comprehensive guide to the prominent schools of thought in literary and cultural theory. It reverses the conventional instructional model of concept-to-example and starts with a literary or cultural text, analysing its way to the theoretical core. the works analysed range from the canonical to the contemporary and popular, covering both print and digital media. Each chapter is thus fashioned to familiarize the students with key ideas and terms of various schools of criticism such as:STRUCTURALISMDECONSTRUCTIONMARXISMNEW HISTORICISMFEMINISM AND GENDER STUDIESPSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISMPOSTCOLONIALISMECOCRITICISMFollowing detailed discussions of the established ideas in theory, the concluding chapter surveys and expands upon contemporary developments in cultural theory for perspectives on new and upcoming ideas in the field such as:POSTHUMANISMFAT STUDIESANIMAL STUDIES