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Publisher Summary 1
This invaluable guide offers an accessible introduction to two important movements in the history of 20th century literary theory. A complementary text to the Palgrave volume Postmodern Narrative Theory by Mark Currie, this new title addresses a host of theoretical concerns, as well as each field's principal figures and interpretive modes. As with other books in the Transitions series, Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory includes readings of a range of widely-studied texts, including Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness , Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre , and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby , among others.
Publisher Summary 2
This invaluable guide offers an accessible introduction to two important movements in the history of 20th century literary theory. A complementary text to the Palgrave volume Postmodern Narrative Theoryby Mark Currie, this new title addresses a host of theoretical concerns, as well as each field's principal figures and interpretive modes. As with other books in theTransitionsseries,Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theoryincludes readings of a range of widely-studied texts, including Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Charlotte Bront毛's Jane Eyre, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, among others.
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Table Of Contents:
General Editor's Preface viii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction: Moving beyond the Politics of Interpretation 1(10)
Part I Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory: A Critical Introduction 11(80)
Twentieth-Century Formalism: Convergence and Divergence 13(26)
Separate yet human: Humanism and formalist conventions 17(5)
Moving from theory to practice: The legacy of I. A. Richards and Cleanth Brooks 22(4)
Another way of knowing: Formalism as literary discourse 26(2)
The limits of formalism: Universalism, eclecticism, and morality in the work of F. R. Leavis and Kenneth Burke 28(5)
The evolution of formalism: The case of Northrop Frye 33(3)
Formalist concerns in the present 36(3)
Russian Formalism, Mikhail Bakhtin, Heteroglossia, and Carnival 39(12)
Signs, signifiers, and the Prague Linguistic Circle 44(3)
Bakhtin and the narratological revolution 47(4)
Reader-Response Theory, the Theoretical Project, and Identity Politics 51(29)
Transactional reading in the theories of Louise M. Rosenblatt and Wayne C. Booth 53(4)
Reader-response theory, narratology, and the structuralist imperative 57(6)
A subjectivist feast: Reader-response theory and psychological criticism 63(10)
Searching for the gendered self: Reader-response theory and feminist criticism 73(7)
Stanley Fish, Self-Consuming Artifacts, and the Professionalization of Literary Studies 80(11)
'Meaning as an event': The evolution of Stanley Fish's reader-response theory 82(4)
'Reading' critical theory, professionalization, and the lingering problem of intentionality 86(5)
Part II Readings in Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory 91(63)
A: Formalist Critical Readings
Travelling through the Valley of Ashes: Symbolic Unity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby 93(14)
Nick Carraway's narrative of hope and wonder 96(7)
The Great Gatsby, the romantic tradition, and narrative transcendence 103(4)
Charlotte Bronte and Frye's Secular Scripture: The Structure of Romance in Jane Eyre 107(16)
Romance and its contexts: The archetypal play of form and feeling 107(5)
Romantic expectations: Heroes, heroines, and their quests 112(5)
Descent and ascent: The structural movements of Jane and Rochester 117(6)
B: Reader-Response Critical Readings
`Telle us som myrie tale, by youre fey!': Exploring the Reading Transaction and Narrative Structure in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde 123(13)
Chaucer, narrative discourse, and the Clerk's Tale 124(5)
Chaucer and the transactional possibilities of literary parody 129(7)
Addressing Horizons of Readerly Expectation in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, or, How to Put the `Reader' in `Reader Response' 136(18)
Engendering reader-response through Conrad's and Ford's literary impressionism 138(2)
Marlow's journey to the ethical void 140(5)
Dowell's narrative circumlocution and the ethics of storytelling 145(9)
Conclusion: Beyond Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory 154(3)
Notes 157(12)
Annotated Bibliography 169(8)
Works Cited 177(11)
Index 188
General Editor's Preface viii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction: Moving beyond the Politics of Interpretation 1(10)
Part I Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory: A Critical Introduction 11(80)
Twentieth-Century Formalism: Convergence and Divergence 13(26)
Separate yet human: Humanism and formalist conventions 17(5)
Moving from theory to practice: The legacy of I. A. Richards and Cleanth Brooks 22(4)
Another way of knowing: Formalism as literary discourse 26(2)
The limits of formalism: Universalism, eclecticism, and morality in the work of F. R. Leavis and Kenneth Burke 28(5)
The evolution of formalism: The case of Northrop Frye 33(3)
Formalist concerns in the present 36(3)
Russian Formalism, Mikhail Bakhtin, Heteroglossia, and Carnival 39(12)
Signs, signifiers, and the Prague Linguistic Circle 44(3)
Bakhtin and the narratological revolution 47(4)
Reader-Response Theory, the Theoretical Project, and Identity Politics 51(29)
Transactional reading in the theories of Louise M. Rosenblatt and Wayne C. Booth 53(4)
Reader-response theory, narratology, and the structuralist imperative 57(6)
A subjectivist feast: Reader-response theory and psychological criticism 63(10)
Searching for the gendered self: Reader-response theory and feminist criticism 73(7)
Stanley Fish, Self-Consuming Artifacts, and the Professionalization of Literary Studies 80(11)
'Meaning as an event': The evolution of Stanley Fish's reader-response theory 82(4)
'Reading' critical theory, professionalization, and the lingering problem of intentionality 86(5)
Part II Readings in Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory 91(63)
A: Formalist Critical Readings
Travelling through the Valley of Ashes: Symbolic Unity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby 93(14)
Nick Carraway's narrative of hope and wonder 96(7)
The Great Gatsby, the romantic tradition, and narrative transcendence 103(4)
Charlotte Bronte and Frye's Secular Scripture: The Structure of Romance in Jane Eyre 107(16)
Romance and its contexts: The archetypal play of form and feeling 107(5)
Romantic expectations: Heroes, heroines, and their quests 112(5)
Descent and ascent: The structural movements of Jane and Rochester 117(6)
B: Reader-Response Critical Readings
`Telle us som myrie tale, by youre fey!': Exploring the Reading Transaction and Narrative Structure in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde 123(13)
Chaucer, narrative discourse, and the Clerk's Tale 124(5)
Chaucer and the transactional possibilities of literary parody 129(7)
Addressing Horizons of Readerly Expectation in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, or, How to Put the `Reader' in `Reader Response' 136(18)
Engendering reader-response through Conrad's and Ford's literary impressionism 138(2)
Marlow's journey to the ethical void 140(5)
Dowell's narrative circumlocution and the ethics of storytelling 145(9)
Conclusion: Beyond Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory 154(3)
Notes 157(12)
Annotated Bibliography 169(8)
Works Cited 177(11)
Index 188
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