Texts : contemporary cultural texts and critical approaches /

Being able to analyse different types of text is an essential skill for students of literature. Texts is a new kind of book which shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural and media texts of the kind studied on today's courses. These texts range fr...

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Tác giả chính: Childs, Peter, 1962-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press 2006.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r1zbd
Mục lục:
  • Film : The matrix and the I-pod
  • Approach : cyberphilosophy
  • Building : shopping in utopia
  • Approach spatial criticism
  • Movie poster : Alien nature
  • Approach : ecocriticism
  • Pop video : Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and "Race"
  • Approach : "race" studies
  • Celebrity : Diana and death
  • Approach : trauma theory
  • TV show : Big brother after the big other
  • Approach : performativity theory
  • Newspaper article : the Gulf War in real time and virtual space
  • Approach : hyperreality
  • Photograph(er) : Cindy Sherman and the masquerade
  • Approach : feminism
  • Political speech : Margaret Thatcher's hymn at the Sermon on the Mound
  • Approach : historicism
  • Critical text : Alan Sokal's sham transgression
  • Approach : reading postmodernism
  • Popular novel : the ethics of Harry Potter
  • Approach : ethical criticism
  • Short story : Barthelme's balloon and the Rhizome
  • Approach : Deleuzian criticism
  • Lyric : "Where's my snare?" : Eminem and Sylvia Plath
  • Approach : psychoanalytic criticism
  • Autobiography : Martin Amis's Experience
  • Approach : self-life-writing
  • Virtual text : Amazonian democracy
  • Approach : globalization studies
  • World media event : it's about time : cultural history at the millennium
  • Approach : cultural studies.