Yale University Open Course: Literary Theory
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This book is adapted from the author's popular literary theory course at Yale University. In this book, the author takes readers on a journey through the mainstream of literary theory in the 20th century. The core of the discussion throughout the book is a series of fundamental questions: what is literature, how is it produced, how should literature be understood, and what is the purpose of literature. Frye deals with important themes and trends in 20th-century literary theory, including hermeneutics, formalism, semiotics and structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic methods, Marxist and historicist methods, social identity theory, new pragmatism and theory, and ends with his own unique perspective. By connecting these trends through philosophical and social perspectives, the author provides readers with an overall coherent context to help readers read the literary works in depth.
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