Subject: Re: Literary Theory recommendations (go Fish)
From: LR Pearson, Arts 99 (lp9616@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Feb 26 2000 - 09:10:35 EST
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:10:02 -0600 Matt Kozusko
<mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu> wrote:
> My favorite intro theory book (out of the 15 or so I've used) is a
> newer anthology edited by Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan called
> _Literary Theory: an Anthology_. Its strong point is its selection of
> essays, which is considerably broader than that of most anthologies.
> There is a lot of Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche to go along with the
> usual Foucault, Lacan and Derrida. Plenty of feminist stuff and the
> token--but useful--section on new historicism/cultural
> poetics/cultural materialism. No Fish, curiously.
>
> Rivkin and Ryan do great, concise introductions to the basic schools
> into which they group the essays. They're as good as they can be,
> considering their length. It's a big book, but it's nicely portable,
> and it keeps on giving.
>
Thanks Matt. See my comments to Jim ;-)
Incidentally, I just had an interview with my personal tutor in which
he told me that despite my belief that Critical Issues was my academic
achilles heel, I'm actually doing very well @:-) Apparently my Critical
Issues tutor said something like, "She aggressively but inspiringly
pursues her own agenda"! So now you know, all you teachers out there.
I'm one of THOSE kind of pupils.
Love, Lucy-Ruth
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