Table of Contents: “…1 Structuralism -- 2 Feminism -- 3 Marxist literary theories -- 4 Reader-Response theories -- 5 Psychoanalytic criticism -- 6 Deconstruction -- 7 Poststructuralism -- 8 Postmodernism -- 9 New historicism -- 10 Postcolonial theory -- 11 Gay studies/ Queer theory -- 12 Culture studies.…”
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Table of Contents: “…What is 'literary theory?' -- Humanist literary theory : Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Francis Bacon, Joseph Addison, Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Matthew Arnold -- Structuralism : Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Levi-Strauss and 'the structural study of myth', Interlude: Humanism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism -- Deconstruction : Binary opposition, The role of the center, Bricolage -- Psychoanalysis : Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Interlude: 'self' to 'subject' -- Feminism : 'Pre-poststructuralist' feminist literary theory, Poststructuralist feminist literary theory, Hélène Cixous and 'The laugh of the Medusa', Luce Irigaray and 'This sex which is not one' -- Queer theory : Flexible sexuality?…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Towards a conception of `literary theory of uncertainty' /…”
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Table of Contents: “…chapter one: aspects of literary theory -- chapter two: marxist theory; 2.1 introduction; 2:2 marxism vis-a-vis the novel and the play; 2.3 marxist critique of african poetry; 2.4 marxist critique of oral literature; 2.5 marxism and drama; 2:6 conclusion -- chapter three: the feminist theory; 3:1 introduction; 3:2 feminism and the novel; 3.5 conclusion; 3:6 feminist critique of oral literature; 3:7 feminist critique of poetry -- chapter four: postcolonial criticism; 4.1 introduction; 4.2 definition of post colonialism; 4:3 postcolonialism in the novel and drama; 4.4 postcolonialism and african poetry; 4.5 postcolonialism and william shakespeare; 4.6 postcolonial critique of genres of oral literature; 4.7 conclusion -- chapter five: psychoanalytic theory; 5:1 introduction; 5:2 psychoanalysis and the novel; 5.3 psychoanalysis and poetry; 5.4 psychoanalysis and oral literature; 5:5 split personality, the extension of psychoanalysis -- chapter six: stylistics- the magic wand; 6:1 introduction; 6:2 definition of style and stylistics; 6:3 distinction of literary works by style; 6:4 stylistics and oral literature; 6.5 conclusion -- chapter seven: philosophy and contemporary african experience; 7.1 introduction; 7.2 cultural essentialism: a sordid boon at the shores of sub-saharan africa; 7:3 postcolonialisn and the african experience; 7:4 said's orientalism and the african reality; 7:5 fanon's national culture and the african quandary; 7:6 bhabha's hibridity and the ethnic divide in africa; 7:7 radical feminism and the african experience…”
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“…Politics of literary theory…”