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Literary theories : a case study in critical performance

Contributor(s): Wolfreys, Julian (Editor) | Baker,William (Editor)Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Hampshire, London : Macmillan, 1996Description: xi, 259 pISBN: 9780333663011 (hard cover); 0333663012 (hard cover); 9780333663028 (paper cover); 0333663020 (paper cover)Subject(s): Literature | History and criticism | Criticism theory | Snowed up (Jefferies, Richard) | Literary theory | CriticismDDC classification: 809

Contents:

'Snowed up: a mistletoe story' / Richard Jefferies -- Biography of Jefferies and a note on the manuscript / David Blomfield and William Baker -- 'Snowed up': a structuralist reading / Julian Cowley -- Snow me again: a poststructuralist narratology of 'Snowed up' / Mark Currie -- Does Edie count?: a psychoanalytic perspective on 'Snowed up' / Jill Barker -- 'Snowed up: a mistletoe story': feminist approaches / Ruth Robbins -- Agriculture and anarchy: a Marxist reading of 'Snowed up' / Jessica Maynard -- Power and its representations: a new historicist reading of Richard Jefferies' 'Snowed up' / John Brannigan -- An 'economics' of snow and the blank page, or, 'writing' at the 'margins': 'deconstructing' 'Richard Jefferies' / Julian Wolfreys.

Summary: This work challenges the notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading and interpretation. The essays offer the student reader an introduction to the ways in which contemporary literary theories challenge us to rethink interpretation, literary writing and critical reading.

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Includes Bibliography & Index.

'Snowed up: a mistletoe story' / Richard Jefferies --
Biography of Jefferies and a note on the manuscript / David Blomfield and William Baker --
'Snowed up': a structuralist reading / Julian Cowley --
Snow me again: a poststructuralist narratology of 'Snowed up' / Mark Currie --
Does Edie count?: a psychoanalytic perspective on 'Snowed up' / Jill Barker --
'Snowed up: a mistletoe story': feminist approaches / Ruth Robbins --
Agriculture and anarchy: a Marxist reading of 'Snowed up' / Jessica Maynard --
Power and its representations: a new historicist reading of Richard Jefferies' 'Snowed up' / John Brannigan --
An 'economics' of snow and the blank page, or, 'writing' at the 'margins': 'deconstructing' 'Richard Jefferies' / Julian Wolfreys.

This work challenges the notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading and interpretation. The essays offer the student reader an introduction to the ways in which contemporary literary theories challenge us to rethink interpretation, literary writing and critical reading.

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