How To Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies - Sykalo Eugen 2024

Introduction

New Criticism

Before New Criticism

How to Interpret: Key Concepts for New Critical Interpretation

Historicizing the New Criticism

The Intentional Fallacy and the Affective Fallacy

How to Interpret: A New Critical Example

The Influence of New Criticism

Structuralism

Key Concepts in Structuralism

How to Interpret

The Death of the Author

How to Interpret: The Detective Novel

Structuralism, Formalism, and Literary History

The Structuralist Study of Narrative

How to Interpret: Focalization and Free Indirect Discourse, Narrative Syntax, and Metaphor and Metonymy

Deconstruction

Key Concepts in Deconstruction

How to Interpret: A Deconstructionist Example

Writing, Speech, and Differance

Deconstruction beyond Derrida