Theory of Literature by Paul H. Fry, ISBN-13: 978-0300180831

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Theory of Literature by Paul H. Fry, ISBN-13: 978-0300180831

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• Publisher: ‎ Yale University Press (April 24, 2012)
• Language: ‎ English
• 400 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0300180837
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0300180831

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book’s discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?

Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them hermeneutics, modes of formalism, semiotics and Structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic approaches, Marxist and historicist approaches, theories of social identity, Neo-pragmatism and theory. By incorporating philosophical and social perspectives to connect these many trends, the author offers readers a coherent overall context for a deeper and richer reading of literature.

Paul H. Fry is William Lampson Professor of English, Yale University. Among his previous books is Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are, published by Yale University Press. He lives in New Haven, CT.

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