Texts and Contexts: Writing about Literature presents a user-friendly introduction to contemporary critical theoriesâ€”from new criticism to cultural studiesâ€”as part of the practice of analyzing and writing about literature. Some of the changes to the new edition include enhanced coverage of film and other genres reflecting the growing interest in film as an academic field and engaging students. New sample texts and projects, all classroom-tested, appear at the end of every theory chapter, along with guiding questions to offer more practice for students in applying critical theory to literary texts. There is more on current approaches to literature, including the relationship between rhetoric and reader-response criticism, Marxism, postcolonialism, queer theory, feminist theory, and African-American studies.

Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature With Critical Theory

Steven Lynn

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins College Div

Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory [RENTAL EDITION], 7th Edition

Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory [RENTAL EDITION]

Pearson

Texts and Contexts

Steven Jay Lynn

Pearson Education US

Very minimal writing inside, cover in good condition

Psychology From Inquiry to Understanding

Medical Books

Lilienfeld, Scott

Nancy Woolf

Laura Namy

Kenneth Cramer & Rodney

Psychology

Pearson Canada

Texts and Contexts: Writing about Literature presents a user-friendly introduction to contemporary critical theories—from new criticism to cultural studies—as part of the practice of analyzing and writing about literature. Some of the changes to the new edition include enhanced coverage of film and other genres reflecting the growing interest in film as an academic field and engaging students. New sample texts and projects, all classroom-tested, appear at the end of every theory chapter, along with guiding questions to offer more practice for students in applying critical theory to literary texts. There is more on current approaches to literature, including the relationship between rhetoric and reader-response criticism, Marxism, postcolonialism, queer theory, feminist theory, and African-American studies.

Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory (6th Edition)

History & Criticism

Steven Lynn's groundbreaking Literature: Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies energizes literary study by demonstrating, step by step, how to use critical approaches to engage literary texts and evolve critical arguments. Plentiful examples demonstrate the process of thinking and writing about literatureprogressing from a blank page to an insightful response and, ultimately, to a final essay using a variety of critical theories as invention strategies. A richly diverse selection of classical and contemporary works short stories, poems, and plays — is included.

Literature: Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies

Longman

This book helps students analyze and write about literature through the introduction of contemporary critical theories. Step-by-step applications of a particular theory give clear, practical examples of what other texts only cover in the abstract. A wealth of writing strategies, examples, and practice materials enable students to understand the assumptions underlying these theories.

Longman Pub. Group

Texts and Contexts: Writing about Literature with Critical Theory

"My other works are wine and water," said Samuel Johnson to Samuel Rogers, "but my Rambler is pure wine."Some critics have disagreed, labeling the essays uneven and dismissing the bulk of them as hastily concocted hackwork by a writer taking a break from or earning money for a more important project—the Dictionary of the English Language. Yet, Steven Lynn, in the first book-length study of The Rambler, resoundingly contradicts such critics; combining deconstruction and other current methods with eighteenth-century rhetorical theories, Lynn refutes conventional critical wisdom among Johnsonians, asserting that the 208 Rambler essays form a coherent whole.Lynn argues that a controlling tenet in the series is that "we are each and every one ramblers, wandering and searching for some stable meaning and satisfaction, which will inevitably elude us in this world. By confronting this absence, Johnson (like a deconstructive theologian) leads us repeatedly to acknowledge the necessity of faith."For Lynn, furthermore, the unifying thread running through the series is expressed in the prayer Johnson composed as he embarked on the journey of The Rambler: "Almighty God, . . . without whose grace all wisdom is folly, grant, I beseech Thee, that in this my undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be witheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory, and the Salvation both of myself and others." As Lynn shows, though Johnson anticipates deconstruction, his controlling evangelistic aim differs profoundly and instructively from it.

Samuel Johnson after Deconstruction: Rhetoric and the Rambler

Essays & Correspondence

Southern Illinois University Press

Rhetoric and Composition

Cambridge University Press

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