Literary Theory at Work: Three Texts

by Douglas Tallack (Author)

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  1987

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  This collection of essays aims to provide a balanced conspectus on the field of literary theory by applying nine theories to the analysis of three texts: Jospeh Conrad's Heart of Darkness , Henry James' In the Cage and D.H.Lawrence's St Mawr . This structure enables an interchange to take place between approaches drawn from all the main areas of recent critical theory: structuralism, post-structuralism, marxism, feminism and psychoanalysis. The book is addressed to all teachers and students who are interested in modern critical theory but want also to see how it can engage with a literary text. It is intended to bridge the gap which seems to have opened up between theory and practice, by explaining each theory and then showing its operation in a detailed reading of a text. The contributors are all members of the Critical Theory Group at the University of Nottingham.