Reader. Contemporary Critical Theories Essay

1. FORM   AND STRUCTURE 5
1.1 FORMALISM 5
1.1.1 Victor Shklovsky: from ‘Art as Technique’ 5
1.1.2 Vladimir Propp: from   Morphology of the Folktale 6
1.1.3 Mikhail Bakhtin: from ‘The Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse’ 7
1.1.4 E.M. Forster: from Aspects of the Novel 14
1.1.5 Wayne C. Booth: from   The Rhetoric of Fiction 16
1.1.6 Wayne C. Booth: from ‘Emotions, Beliefs, and the Reader’s Objectivity’ 18
1.2       THE NEW CRITICISM 20
1.2.1 Cleanth   Brooks: from ‘The Formalist Critic ‘ 20
1.2.3 W. K. Wimsatt and M. Beardsley: from   ‘The Intentional Fallacy’ 22
1.2.4 W. K. Wimsatt and M. Beardsley: from   ‘The Affective Fallacy’ 24
1.3 STRUCTURALISM 26
1.3.1 Roman Jakobson: from ‘Linguistics and Poetics’ 26
1.3.2 Roman Jakobson: from ‘The metaphoric and metonymic poles’ 33
1.3.3 A. -   J.Greimas: from Structural Semantics 37
1.3.4 Gérard Genette: from ‘Frontiers of Narrative’ 39
1.3.5 Gérard Genette: from ‘Structuralism and Literary Criticism’ 40
1.3.6 Tzvetan Todorov: from ‘Definition of Poetics’ 43
1.3.7 Jonathan Culler: from Structuralist Poetics 44
1.3.8 Roland Barthes: from ‘Textual Analysis: Poe’s Valdemar’ 47
1.4 DECONSTRUCTION 54
1.4.1 Jacques Derrida: from ‘Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’ 54
1.4.4 Paul de Man: from Blindness and Insight: Essays in The Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism 57
1.4.5 Paul de Man: from ‘Semiology and Rhetoric’ (1979) 60
1.4.6 Barbara Johnson: from   ‘The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida’ 64
1.4.8 Richard   A.   Rand:   from ‘Geraldine’ 69
2. PROTO -THEMES 72
2.1     MYTH CRITICISM 72
2.1.1   Joseph Campbell: from The Hero With A Thousand Faces 72
2.1.2   Northrop Frye: from ‘The Archetypes of Literature’ 74
2.1.4   Leslie A. Fiedler: from ‘Archetype and Signature: The Relationship of Poet and Poem’ 77
2.1.5 Herbert Weisinger: from ‘The Myth and Ritual Approach to Shakespearean Tragedy’ 79
2.1.6   Eric Gould: from   Mythical Intentions in Modern Literature 82
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