![How to Do Theory](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/803/115/9781405115803.IN.0.m.jpg)
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
How to Do Theory Papeback - - 1st Edition
by Wolfgang Iser
- New
Description
New
NZ$85.68
NZ$6.64
Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 9 to 14 days
More Shipping Options
Standard delivery: 9 to 14 days
Ships from Cold Books (New York, United States)
Details
- Title How to Do Theory
- Author Wolfgang Iser
- Binding Papeback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Blackwell Publishing , Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date pp. 224
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 61495651
- ISBN 9781405115803 / 1405115807
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.06 x 0.49 in (23.11 x 15.39 x 1.24 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Literature - Philosophy, Criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005004140
- Dewey Decimal Code 801.95
About Cold Books New York, United States
Biblio member since 2012
From the rear cover
Literary theory has become a branch of learning in its own right, and for teachers as well as students its complexities can sometimes be daunting.
In this succinct introduction, Wolfgang Iser, himself a renowned theorist:
- explains what "theory" is and why it is that there are so many different theories
- deals in turn with those theories that have made the greatest impact in recent times, among them phenomenological theory, reception theory, semiotic theory, psychoanalytical theory, Marxist theory, deconstruction, art as experience, and feminist theory
- outlines the main components of each approach and explains how it is constructed.
Using classic literary texts, including Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn, Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender, and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Iser shows what a work of art looks like if viewed in terms of each of the theories concerned. He presents the different theories objectively, leaving it up to readers to decide which, if any, they subscribe to. In this way, he defuses students' fear of theory and demonstrates the potential of different theories for interpreting texts.