Contexts For Criticism

The Story

In this introduction to literary criticism, the major critical theories of literary interpretation-- historical, formal, reader-response, mimetic, intertextual, poststructural, and new historical-- are presented in separate chapters that include detailed introductions, ' theoretical' essays that explain and argue the value of each theory, and ' applications' essays in which the theories are applied to the same three literary works: William Shakespeare' s The Tempest, Kate Chopin' s The Awakening, and William Wordsworth' s ' Ode: Intimations of Immortality.' Wordsworth' s and Chopin' s works are included in the book.