目錄
PREFACE
1.Getting Started: The Precritical Response
Ⅰ.Setting
Ⅱ.Plot
Ⅲ.Character
Ⅳ.Structure
Ⅴ.Style
Ⅵ.Atmosphere
Ⅶ.Theme
2.Traditional Approaches
Ⅰ.A Note on Traditional Approaches
Ⅱ.Textual Scholarship, Genres, and Source Study
A.Textual Scholarship: Do We Have an Accurate Version of What We Are Studying
1.General Observations
2.Text Study in Practice
B.Matters of Genre: What Are We Dealing With
1.An Overview of Genre
2.Genre Characteristics in Practice
C.Source Study: Did Earlier Writings Help This Work Come into Being
Ⅲ.Historical and Biographical Approaches
A.General Observations
B.Historical and Biographical Approaches in Practice
1."To His Coy Mistress
2.Hamlet
3.Huckleberry Finn
4."Young Goodman Brown
5."Everyday Use
6.Frankenstein
Ⅳ.Moral and Philosophical Approaches
A.General Observations
B.Moral and Philosophical Approaches in Practice
1."To His Coy Mistress"
2.Hamlet
3.Huckleberry Finn
4."Young Goodman Brown"
5."Everyday Use"
6.Frankenstein
Ⅴ.Summary of Key Points
Ⅵ.Limitations of Traditional Approaches
3.Formalist Approaches
Ⅰ.The Process of Formalist Analysis: Making the Close Reader
Ⅱ.A Brief History of Formalist Criticism
A.The Course of Half a Century
B.Backgrounds of Formalist Theory
C.The New Criticism
D.Reader-Response Criticism: A Reaction
Ⅲ.Constants of the Formalist Approach: Some Key Concepts, Terms, and Devices
A.Form and Organic Form
B.Texture, Image, Symbol
C.Fallacies
D.Point of View
E.The Speaker』s Voice
F.Tension, Irony, Paradox
Ⅳ.The Formalist Approach in Practice
A.Word, Image, and Theme: Space-Time Metaphors in "To His Coy Mistress"
B.The Dark, the Light, and the Pink: Ambiguity as Form in "Young Goodman Brown"
1.Virtues and Vices
2.Symbol or Allegory
3.Loss upon Loss
C.Romance and Reality, Land and River: The Journey as Repetitive Form in Huckleberry Finn
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4.Materialisms
5.Literature and Linguistics
6.The Psychological Approach
7.Mythological and Archetypal Approaches
8.Feminisms and Gender Studies
9.Cultural Studies
10.Postcolonial Studies
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX A Andrew Marvell,"To His Coy Mistress"
APPENDIX B Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"
APPENDIX C Alice Walker, "Everyday Use"
GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS
INDEX
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