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African Literature Today
Critical Theory and African Literature Today
Author: Eldred Durosimi Jones
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Published: 1995-05
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780865434417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An analysis of the literary criticism of modern African Literature.
Critical Theory & African Literature Today
Author: Eldred D. Jones
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
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Critical Theory Today
Author: Lois Tyson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-09-10
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 1136615563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.
Using Critical Theory
Author: Lois Tyson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-11-16
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1136645683
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting area in a friendly and approachable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on major theories that students are expected to cover in their studies. Key features include: coverage of major theories including psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, lesbian/gay/queer theories, postcolonial theory, African American theory, and a new chapter on New Criticism (formalism) practical demonstrations of how to use these theories on short literary works selected from canonical authors including William Faulkner and Alice Walker a new chapter on reader-response theory that shows students how to use their personal responses to literature while avoiding typical pitfalls new sections on cultural criticism for each chapter new ‘further practice’ and ‘further reading’ sections for each chapter a useful "next step" appendix that suggests additional literary titles for extra practice. Comprehensive, easy to use, and fully updated throughout, Using Critical Theory is the ideal first step for students beginning degrees in literature, composition and cultural studies.
The Desiring Modes of Being Black
Author: Jean-Paul Rocchi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-08-24
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1783484004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores how contemporary black literature challenges theoretical approaches of race, gender and sexualities.
Literary Criticism, Critical Theory and Post Colonial African Literature
Author: Chinyere Nwahunanya
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780979238673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Literary Criticism, Critical Theory and Post Colonial African Literature examines major issues in contemporary literary criticism and critical theory especially as they concern African literature. Both diachronic and synchronic in its approach, it addresses mainstream issues that come under the purvey of literary criticism and literary history, the aesthetics of African poetry and the relationship between African dramatists and dramatists of the Absurd. It also handles major topics in postcolonial African literature, including Poetry and Autobiography in Africa, Aesthetic problems in the Nigerian novel, Dangerous Trends in Contemporary African Criticism, and Nigerian war fiction. In addition, Literary Symbiosis, the Historical Novel in Africa, as well as Issues in the creation and criticism of children's literature are handled.
Critical Theory and African Literature
Tradition and the Black Atlantic
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr
Publisher: Civitas Books
Published: 2010-08-24
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0465022634
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline's roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory, Gates leaps from Richard Wright to Spike Lee, from Pat Buchanan to Frantz Fanon, and ultimately to the source of anticolonialist thought: the unlikely figure of Edmund Burke. Throughout Tradition and the Black Atlantic, Gates shows that the culture wars have presented us with a surfeit of either/ors -- tradition versus modernity; Eurocentrism versus Afrocentricism. Pointing us away from these facile dichotomies, Gates deftly combines rigorous scholarship with humor, looking back to the roots of cultural studies in order to map out its future course.
