Birch David. Language, Literature and Critical Practice: Ways of Analysing Text

Routledge, 1996. — xvii, 211 pages. — (Interface). — ISBN: 0-203-97684-3.Using a wide-ranging variety of texts the author reviews and evaluates a broad range of approaches to textual commentary, introducing the reader to the fundamental distinction between `actual' and `virtual' worlds in critical practice.How texts mean: reading as critical/political practice
Language as showing: Martin Heidegger
The play of meanings: Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, William Empson, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Christopher Norris
Interdiscourse/Intertextualities: Michel Foucault, Michel Pecheux, Edward Said
The negotiation of meanings: Georg Lukacs, Pierre Macherey, Louis Althusser, Mikhail Bakhtin, Valentin Voloshinov
Feminist criticism: Kate Millett, Elaine Showalter, Barbara Godard, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan
Language, text, coherence: Marianne Dekoven, Alec McHoul
Classifications, realities and textual analysis: M.A.K.Halliday
Politically committed analysis: Deirdre Burton
Textually constructed realities: Beng Huat Chua, Harold Garfinkel
Relevance: Walter Ong. Tanya ReinhartH.P.Grice, Gunther Kress
Language, literature and scientific fictions
Scientificity
Formalism/Structuralism: Ferdinand de Saussure, Louis Hjelmslev
Idealization/Actualization: Ferdinand de Saussure
Scientific fictions: Ferdinand de Saussure, Louis Hjelmslev
Structures and meanings: Ruqaiya Hasan, Samuel Jay Keyser, Stanley Fish, Walter Nash, Peter Barry
Reading literary texts: traditions, assumptions, practices
Literature as moral discipline: Donald Davie, T.S.Eliot, James Reeves, F.R.Leavis
Literature as traditional orthodoxy: James Reeves, Alan Rodway, T.S.Eliot
Text-in-itself relevance: Samuel Coleridge, I.A.Richards, Jonathan Holden, Christopher Ricks, Merle Brown, John Ruskin, W.K. Wimsatt, Monroe Beardsley, T.S.Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Cleanth Brooks, F.W.Bateson, James Reeves, Susan Sontag
Reading ‘with’ the text: John LockeT.S.Eliot, Donald Davie
Centres of text and fixed points of meaning: Richard Webster, Simon Stuart, T.S.Eliot, I.A.Richards, Bernard Dauenhauer, Marshall McLuhan
Reading texts closely: language, style and the ‘buried life of words’
Language-aware analysis: William Empson, N.F.Blake
Literary paradigms: I.A.Richards, William Empson, Christopher Ricks, F.R.Leavis
‘Entering’ the text: William Empsonm, I.A.Richards, F.W.Bateson, F.R.LeavisLeo Spitzer
Language, text, context: Winifred Nowottny, M.A.K.Halliday
Language, text, communication: Henry Widdowson, Ronald Carter, Michael Lofaro, Geoffrey Leech
Literary language and literariness: Paul Sawyer, Ronald Carter, Walter Nash, Terry Eagleton, Roman Jakobson, Jan Mukarovsky, Geoffrey Hartman
The linguistics of text: structures and strictures
Stimulus, response, function: I.A.Richards, Michael Riffaterre, Roman Jakobson
Structural relations of meaning: Roman Jakobson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Vladimir Propp, A.J.Greimas, Samuel Levin, Eleanor Cotton
Reading and rereading: Tzvetan Todorov, Roland Barthes
Myths, structures and archetypes: Northrop Frye
Situation and culture-dependent meanings: Bronislaw Malinowski, Benjamin Whorf, Edward Sapir, J.R.Firth
Generativism and textual analysis: Noam Chomsky, Robert Hodge, Gunther Kress, William Bennett, Jonathan Culler
Functionalism and textual analysis: M.A.K.Halliday, Henry Widdowson, Ronald Carter, John McH.Sinclair, Roger Fowler, Michael Hoey, Robert Hodge, Gunther Kress, Tony Trew
Textlinguistics and discourse: Manfred Bierwisch, Teun van Dijk, Jens Ihwe, Robert de Beaugrande Critical linguistics: Roger Fowler, Bob Hodge, Gunther Kress, David Birch
Afterword: Paul Ricoeur, Roger Fowler