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Introduction to Literary Analysis: A Complete Methodology [Kõva köide]

  • Formaat: Hardback, 242 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 12 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jun-2022
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032017279
  • ISBN-13: 9781032017273
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Hardback, 242 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 12 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jun-2022
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032017279
  • ISBN-13: 9781032017273
Teised raamatud teemal:
This book provides a complete guide to analyzing literary works, from an introduction of basic principles to the finer details.

Separated into three sections, the book covers:

Principlesthis looks at what literary analysis is, its three main components, and the various possible objects of analysis.

Main componentsintroduces nearly 30 aspects of text analysis, such as style, themes, social aspects, and context, and then goes on to introduce nearly 50 approaches, such as literary history, ecocriticism, narratology, and sociology.

The process of analysisdetails the general structure of the analytical text, the structure of a pedagogical essay, the analysis of a theoretical element, possible plans for the analytical text, methods of argumentation, statements of opinion, hypotheses, the structure of paragraphs, and the use of citations.

This book is a synthesis of established scholarship with new, original insights, making it an ideal introduction to the study of literature as well as a valuable companion throughout further study.
List of figures
x
List of contributors
xi
Introduction 1(4)
PART I Principles
5(12)
1 Definition of analysis
7(2)
2 Components of analysis
9(5)
2.1 Introduction
9(3)
2.2 Further information
12(2)
3 Objects of analysis
14(3)
PART II Components of analysis
17(146)
4 Aspects of the literary text
19(58)
4.1 Introduction
19(1)
4.2 Beliefs, values, ideology, argumentation
20(1)
4.3 Character, actant, actor, agonist
21(2)
4.4 Collection
23(1)
4.5 Connotation, denotation
24(3)
4.6 Content, form
27(2)
4.1 Context
29(1)
4.8 Deviation, norm
30(2)
4.9 Generative seed
32(1)
4.10 Genesis, variant, creation of the book
33(1)
4.11 Genre
34(2)
4.12 Language
36(1)
4.13 Mimetic mode
37(1)
4.14 Onomastics
38(4)
4.15 Production, immanence, reception
42(2)
4.16 Psychology
44(3)
4.17 Rhythm
47(2)
4.18 Segmentation, arrangement
49(1)
4.19 Sign, signifier, signified
50(1)
4.20 Society
51(4)
4.21 Space
55(3)
4.22 Story, narrative, narration, action
58(1)
4.23 Structure, relation, operation
59(2)
4.24 Style
61(3)
4.25 Theme, thematic, thematic structure
64(3)
4.26 Time
67(3)
4.27 Topos
70(2)
4.28 Transtextuality: intertextuality, autotextuality, etc.
72(2)
4.29 Versification
74(1)
4.30 Worldview
75(2)
5 Approaches to literary texts
77(67)
5.1 Introduction
77(3)
5.2 Cognitive poetics
80(1)
5.3 Comparative literature
81(2)
5.4 Cultural materialism (New Historicism)
83(1)
5.5 Cultural studies
84(1)
5.6 Deconstruction
85(1)
5.7 Dialogism
86(2)
5.8 Digital media (new media) studies
88(1)
5.9 Ecocriticism
89(2)
5.10 Feminism, feminist criticism, gender studies
91(2)
5.11 Genetic criticism or textual genetics
93(1)
5.12 Geocriticism
93(2)
5.13 Hcrmeneutics
95(1)
5.14 History of ideas
96(1)
5.15 History of mentalities
97(2)
5.16 Intermediality (study of)
99(2)
5.17 Intertextuality (study of)
101(2)
5.18 Linguistics
103(1)
5.19 Literary genres (study of)
104(1)
5.20 Literary history
105(3)
5.21 Literature and other arts (study of)
108(2)
5.22 Marxism
110(1)
5.23 Mythanalysis
111(2)
5.24 Narratology
113(1)
5.25 New Criticism
114(2)
5.26 Orwmastics
116(2)
5.27 Philosophy
118(1)
5.28 Poetics
119(1)
5.29 Postcolonial studies
119(1)
5.30 Posthumanism
120(2)
5.31 Pragmatics
122(1)
5.32 Psychology, psychoanalysis, andpsychocriticism
123(1)
5.33 Queer studies, queer theory
124(1)
5.34 Race and ethnicity studies, critical race theory
125(2)
5.35 Reading (theories of)
127(1)
5.36 Reception (theories of)
128(1)
5.37 Rhetoric
129(1)
5.38 Rhythm (study of)
130(1)
5.39 Russian Formalism
131(1)
5.40 Semantics
132(1)
5.41 Semiotics
133(1)
5.42 Sociology of literature
134(1)
5.43 Structuralism
135(2)
5.44 Statistics
137(1)
5.45 Textual statistics and computer text analysis
138(1)
5.46 Tliematics and symbolism (analysis)
139(2)
5.47 Versification (study of)
141(1)
5.48 World literature
142(2)
6 Corpus
144(8)
6.1 Introduction
144(2)
6.2 Typology
146(1)
6.3 Epistemological nature: a corpus is a relative and determining object
147(1)
6.4 Objectives
148(1)
6.5 The stages of the treatment of the corpus
148(1)
6.6 The representativeness of the corpus is relative
148(1)
6.7 Homogeneity is relative
149(1)
6.8 Tlie main problems relating to the corpus
149(3)
7 Aspects of theater
152(11)
7.1 Definitions of literature and its main genres
152(2)
7.2 Text and performance
154(2)
7.3 The performance and the imagined performance
156(1)
7.4 Aspects oj performance: the languages of theater
157(5)
7.5 Mixing of languages and the predominant language
162(1)
PART III Components of the analytical text
163(81)
8 The general structure of analysis
165(23)
8.1 Introduction
165(1)
8.2 General presentation
165(1)
8.3 The introduction and conclusion
166(5)
8.4 The development
171(10)
8.5 Other possible parts of the analysis
181(2)
8.6 A model analysis
183(5)
9 The pedagogical essay
188(4)
9.1 Definition
188(1)
9.2 Types of pedagogical essays
188(1)
9.3 Types of instructions
189(1)
9.4 Types of essay topic
190(1)
9.5 Stages in writing a pedagogical essay
190(2)
10 Analysis of a theoretical element
192(5)
10.1 Skills in dealing with theoretical elements
192(1)
10.2 The relationship between a theory or method and the object to which it is applied
193(1)
10.3 What to describe about an approach and how to describe it
193(2)
10.4 Questions to consider when analyzing a theoretical element
195(2)
11 The plan of the analytical text
197(9)
11.1 Typology of plans: overview
197(1)
11.2 Detailed typology of plans
198(8)
12 Argumentation
206(16)
12.1 Introduction
206(1)
12.2 Proposition, subject, predicate, and truth value
206(3)
12.3 A method for generating and developing arguments
209(1)
12.4 Qualities of effective argumentation
210(1)
12.5 Some types of argumentative elements
211(11)
13 Opinion and taking a position
222(3)
13.1 Opinion
222(1)
13.2 Taking a position
223(1)
13.3 Characteristics of an opinion
223(1)
13.4 Place of the opinion in the structure of the text
224(1)
14 Hypothesis
225(3)
14.1 Analysis with and without a hypothesis
225(1)
14.2 Global and local hypothesis
225(1)
14.3 Definition of the hypothesis
226(1)
14.4 A priori and a posteriori hypothesis
226(1)
14.5 Invalidation and replacement of the characteristic
226(1)
14.6 Qualities of the hypothesis
227(1)
15 Paragraphs
228(5)
15.1 Introduction
228(1)
15.2 Forms of the paragraph
228(1)
15.3 Structure of the paragraph
229(2)
15.4 Qualities of the paragraph
231(2)
16 Citation
233(11)
16.1 Parts of the citation
233(4)
16.2 Types of citations
237(1)
16.3 Referencing
237(1)
16.4 Ways of delimiting direct citations
238(1)
16.5 Second-hand citation
239(1)
16.6 Direct citation within a direct citation
240(1)
16.7 Quotation marks and square brackets
240(1)
16.8 Syntax of direct citation
241(1)
16.9 Citation from a text in verse
242(1)
16.10 Citation from a theatrical text
242(1)
16.11 The main problems relating to citation
242(2)
Works cited 244(5)
Index 249
Louis Hébert is a Professor at the Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), Canada. He has published many books on semiotics and the methodology of literary analysis, in Quebec, France, and the UK, including An Introduction to Applied Semiotics (Routledge).