Literary Theory

A Very Short Introduction

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by Jonathan Culler

Oxford University Press

Due/Published May 2000, 144 pages, paper

ISBN 019285383X

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CONTENTS

1. What is Literary Theory?
2. What is Literature and Does it Matter?
3. Literature and Cultural Studies
4. Language, Meaning, and Interpretation
5. Poetry, Poetics, and Rhetoric
6. Narrative
7. Literature and Social Identity
8. Schools, Movements, Institutions
9. Choosing