BOOKS by Lois Tyson

Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide more books like this

by Lois Tyson

Providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis, this guide can be used as the only text in a course or as a precursor to the study of primary theoretical works. It aims to motivate readers by showing them what critical theory can offer in terms of their practical understanding of literary texts and in terms of their ...

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Learning for a Diverse World: Using Critical Theory to Read and Write about Literature more books like this

by Lois Tyson

This book explains the basic concepts of six critical theories in popular academic use today-psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gay/lesbian, African-American, and post-colonial theories-and shows how they can be employed to interpret the five short literary works in the book: Emily Dickinson's "I started Early-Took My Dog," William Faulkner's "A ...

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Psychological Politics of the American Dream: The Commodification of Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century American Literature more books like this

by Lois Tyson

Because literature is a repository of both a society's ideologies and its psychological conflicts, it has the capacity to reveal aspects of a culture's collective psyche: the ways in which ideological investments reveal the nature of individuals' psychological relationship to the world. While it is reasonable to assume that our national literature ...

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