Contemporary Literature Theory A Student`s Companion

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Understanding the Basics..........1 Changing words and Changing words ...............1 Post-Modernism and Before .........18 2. Current critical Approaches .......28 Post - Structurealism : Deconstruction ........28 Psychoanalytic Criticism ..............48 Social Discourses ..........57 Reader- Oriented theories .......64 Gender- Based approaches ...........73 Historical Approaches ...........84 Colonial Context .........90 Socio-economic approaches ..............97 3. Other Critical Approaches .....105 Formalism : Russian and French .......105 Anglo-American Practical / New Criticism ......113 Structuralism .......123 Stylistics ...........133