Bertens Hans. Literary Theory. The Basics

The Basics. — London: Routledge, 2001. — 256 pp.Книга по теории литературы ученого из Нидерландов (Университет г. Утрехт).The premise of Literary Theory: The Basics is that literary theory and literary practice – the practice of interpretation – can indeed not very well be separated and certainly not at the more advanced level of academic literary studies. One of its aims, then, is to show how theory and practice are inevitably connected and have always been connected.Acknowledgements.
Reading for meaning: practical criticism and new criticism.
Reading for form I: formalism and early structuralism, 1914-1960.
Reading for form II: French structuralism, 1950-1975.
Political reading: the 1970s and 1980s.
The poststucturalist revolution: Derrida, deconstruction, and postmodernism.
Poststructuralism continued: Foucault, Lacan, and French feminism.
Literature and culture: the new historicism and cultural materialism.
Postcolonial criticism and theory.
Sexuality, literature, and culture.