A BRIEF HISTORY OF LITERARY THEORY
By Chris Lang
Table of Contents:
Section 1
INTRODUCTION
MEANING: THE MOVEMENT FROM AUTHOR TO READER
THE READER-RESPONSE THEORY OF STANLEY FISH
- Meaning in the Reader
- Authorial Intent
- Interpretive Communities
Section 2
POST-MODERNISM AND THE
HISTORY OF IDEAS
FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO EXISTENTIALISM: EXISTENCE OVER ESSENCE
THE PHILOSOPHY OF LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
- Language as Convention
- Forms of Life
- Public Criterion and Private Languages
COMPARISON: OR ISOLATED COMMUNITIES
Section 3
MODERNISM: A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH
THE DEATH OF AUTHORITY
PRIVATIZATION OF TRUTH
PLURALISM AND THE RISE OF RELATIVISM
CONCLUSION: BACK TO BABEL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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