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Author:   Hans Bertens (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   4th edition
Weight:   0.648kg
ISBN:  

9781032446912

ISBN 10:   1032446919
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   28 June 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1 Reading for Meaning: Practical Criticism and New Criticism Chapter 2 Reading for Form and Function: Formalism and Early Structuralism, 1914-1960 Chapter 3 Reading for Form II: French Structuralism, 1950-1975 Chapter 4 Political Reading: Class, Gender, and Race in the 1970s and 1980s Chapter 5 The Poststructuralist Revolution Chapter 6 Literature and Culture: Cultural Studies, the New Historicism, Cultural Materialism Chapter 7 Postcolonial Criticism and Theory Chapter 8 Sexuality, Literature, Culture and Queer Studies Chapter 9 Decentring the Human: Posthumanism, Ecocriticism, New Materialism, Animal Studies Chapter 10 ‘Theory’, Post-Theory, New Challenges Bibliography Index

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Hans Bertens is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and Past President of the International Comparative Literature Association. He has published in English and Dutch on postmodernism, American literature, and literary theory.

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