Bertens Hans. Literary Theory. Part 1

The Basics. — London: Routledge, 2001. — 256 pp.The premise of Literary Theory: The Basics is that literary theory and literary practice – the practice of interpretation – can indeed not very well be separated and certainly not at the more advanced level of academic literary studies. One of its aims, then, is to show how theory and practice are inevitably connected and have always been connected.Acknowledgements
Reading for meaning: practical criticism and new criticism
Reading for form I: formalism and early structuralism, 1914-1960
Reading for form II: French structuralism, 1950-1975
Political reading: the 1970s and 1980s
The poststucturalist revolution: Derrida, deconstruction, and postmodernism