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This clear, succinct primer for literary theory provides students with a useful guide to contemporary theory and methodologies. Theoretical overviews summarize each literary approach for clarification and "Application Essays" by well-known scholars, on works by authors such as Shakespeare, Austen, Melville, Faulkner, and Angelou, represent the stated principles. The text helps students generate consistent, well-focused analyses based on any of ten critical methodologies, including New Criticism, Psychoanalytic Analysis, Deconstruction, Feminist Analysis, and New Historicism.Donald E. Hall is the author of 'Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications', published 2000 under ISBN 9780395929193 and ISBN 0395929199.
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