Literary theories : a case study in critical performance

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Hampshire, London : Macmillan, 1996.Description: xi, 259 pISBN:

9780333663011 (hard cover)
0333663012 (hard cover)
9780333663028 (paper cover)
0333663020 (paper cover)

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DDC classification:

809 LIT

Contents:

'Snowed up: a mistletoe story' / Richard Jefferies -- Biography of Jefferies and a note on the manuscript / David Blomfield and William Baker -- 'Snowed up': a structuralist reading / Julian Cowley -- Snow me again: a poststructuralist narratology of 'Snowed up' / Mark Currie -- Does Edie count?: a psychoanalytic perspective on 'Snowed up' / Jill Barker -- 'Snowed up: a mistletoe story': feminist approaches / Ruth Robbins -- Agriculture and anarchy: a Marxist reading of 'Snowed up' / Jessica Maynard -- Power and its representations: a new historicist reading of Richard Jefferies' 'Snowed up' / John Brannigan -- An 'economics' of snow and the blank page, or, 'writing' at the 'margins': 'deconstructing' 'Richard Jefferies' / Julian Wolfreys.

Summary: This work challenges the notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading and interpretation. The essays offer the student reader an introduction to the ways in which contemporary literary theories challenge us to rethink interpretation, literary writing and critical reading.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Reference Books	Main Library Reference	Reference	809 LIT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		004783

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Includes Bibliography & Index.

'Snowed up: a mistletoe story' / Richard Jefferies --
Biography of Jefferies and a note on the manuscript / David Blomfield and William Baker --
'Snowed up': a structuralist reading / Julian Cowley --
Snow me again: a poststructuralist narratology of 'Snowed up' / Mark Currie --
Does Edie count?: a psychoanalytic perspective on 'Snowed up' / Jill Barker --
'Snowed up: a mistletoe story': feminist approaches / Ruth Robbins --
Agriculture and anarchy: a Marxist reading of 'Snowed up' / Jessica Maynard --
Power and its representations: a new historicist reading of Richard Jefferies' 'Snowed up' / John Brannigan --
An 'economics' of snow and the blank page, or, 'writing' at the 'margins': 'deconstructing' 'Richard Jefferies' / Julian Wolfreys.

This work challenges the notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading and interpretation. The essays offer the student reader an introduction to the ways in which contemporary literary theories challenge us to rethink interpretation, literary writing and critical reading.

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