A Handbook of critical approaches to literature - Guerin, Wilfred L. (New York Oxford University Press, 1992)
Prologue: The Precritical Approach -- 1. Traditional Approaches. I. Nature and Scope of the Traditional Approaches. A. Textual Scholarship: A Prerequisite to Criticism. B. Types of Traditional Approaches. 1. Historical-Biographical. 2. Moral-Philosophical. II. The Traditional Approaches in Practice. A. Traditional Approaches to Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" 1. The Text of the Poem. 2. The Genre of the Poem. 3. Historical-Biographical Considerations. 4. Moral-Philosophical Considerations. B. Traditional Approaches to Hamlet. 1. The Text of the Play. 2. A Summary of the Play. 3. Historical-Biographical Considerations. 4. Moral-Philosophical Considerations. C. Traditional Approaches to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1. Dialect and Textual Matters. 2. The Genre and the Plot of the Novel. 3. Historical-Biographical Considerations. 4. Moral-Philosophical Considerations. D. Traditional Approaches to"Young Goodman Brown" 1. The Text of the Story. 2. The Genre and the Plot of the Story. 3. Historical-Biographical Considerations. 4. Moral-Philosophical Considerations -- 2. The Formalistic Approach. I. Reading a Poem: An Introduction to the Formalistic Approach. II. The Process of Formalistic Analysis: Making the Close Reader. III. A Brief History of Formalistic Criticism. A. The Course of a Half Century. B. Backgrounds of Formalistic Theory. C. The New Criticism. IV. Constants of the Formalistic Approach: Some Key Concepts, Terms, and Devices. V. The Formalistic Approach in Practice. A. Word,Image, and Theme: Space-Time Metaphors in "To His Coy Mistress" B. The Dark, the Light, and the Pink: Ambiguity as Form in "Young Goodman Brown" C. Romance and Reality, Land and River: The Journey as Repetitive Form in Huckleberry Finn. D. Dialectic as Form: The Trap Metaphor in Hamlet. VI. Limitations of the Formalistic Approach -- 3. The Psychological Approach: Freud. I. Aims and Principles. A. Abuses and Misunderstandings of the Psychological Approach. B. Freud's Theories. II. The Psychological Approach in Practice. A. Hamlet: The Oedipus Complex. B. Rebellion against the Father in Huckleberry Finn. C. "Young Goodman Brown": Id versus Superego. D. The Turn of the Screw: The Consequences of Sexual Repression. E. Death Wish in Poe's Fiction. F. Love and Death in Blake's "Sick Rose" G. Sexual Imagery in "To His Coy Mistress" III. Other Possibilities and Limitations of the Psychological Approach -- 4. Mythological and Archetypal Approaches. I. Definitions and Misconceptions. II. Some Examples of Archetypes. A. Images. B. Archetypal Motifs orPatterns. C. Archetypes as Genres. III. Myth Criticism in Practice. A. Anthropology and Its Uses. 1. The Sacrificial Hero: Hamlet. 2. Archetypes of Time and Immortality: "To His Coy Mistress" B. Jungian Psychology and Its Archetypal Insights. 1. Some Special Archetypes: Shadow, Persona, and Anima. 2. "Young Goodman Brown": A Failure of Individuation. 3. Syntheses of Jung and Anthropology. C. Myth Criticism and the American Dream: Huckleberry Finn as the American Adam. IV. Limitations of Myth Criticism -- 5.Feminist Approaches. I. Feminism and Feminist Literary Criticism: Definitions. II. Historical Overview and Major Themes in Feminist Criticism. III. Four Significant Current Practices. A. Gender Studies. B. Marxist Feminism.C. Psychoanalytic Feminism. D. Minority Feminist Criticism. IV. Four Feminist Approaches. A. The Marble Vault: The Mistress in "To His Coy Mistress" B. Frailty, Thy Name Is Hamlet: Hamlet and Women. C. Men, Women, and the Loss of Faith in "Young Goodman Brown" D. Women and "Sivilization"in Huckleberry Finn. V. The Future of Feminist Literary Studies: Some Problems and Limitations -- 6. Structuralism and Poststructuralism. I. Structuralism. A. Context and Definition. B. The Linguistic Model. C. Russian Formalism: Estrangement and Defamiliarization in "To His Coy Mistress" and Other Works. D. Semiotics or Semiology. E. Nouvelle Critique (French Structuralism): Decoding "Young Goodman Brown" and Other Works. F. Anglo-American Interpreters. II. Structuralist Approaches to Huckleberry Finn. III. Hamlet: A Parable of Ambiguity. IV. Poststructuralism: Deconstruction -- 7. Additional Approaches. I. Aristotelian Criticism (Including the Chicago School). II.Genre Criticism. III. The History of Ideas. IV. Linguistics and Literature. V. Stylistics. VI. The Rhetorical Approach. VII. Phenomenological Criticism (The Criticism of Consciousness). VIII. Source Study and Related Approaches (Genetic Criticism). IX. Hermeneutics. X. Dialogics. XI. The Marxist Approach. XII. The New Historicism. XIII. Reader-Response Criticism -- App "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell -- App "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-374) and index.
Keywords: Criticism