The literary theory toolkit a compendium of concepts and methods - Rapaport, Herman 1947- (Malden, MA Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
Introductory Tools for Literary Analysis : Basics -- Common Critical Practices -- Literary Language -- Hermeneutics -- Major 20th Century Schools of Critical Analysis -- Socio-Political Analyses ; Tools for reading narrative : Story and plot: Fabula and Syuzhet -- Order -- Mimesis/Diegesis -- Free indirect discourse -- Interior monologue -- Diachronic and synchronic -- Intertextuality -- Dialogism -- Chronotope -- Character zone -- Focalization -- Narrative codes ; Tools for reading poetry : Tropes -- Elision -- Resemblance -- Objective correlative -- Language poetry -- The new sentence -- Sound poetry/concrete poetry -- Prosody ; Tools for analyzing performance : Performance studies -- Realist theatre: total acting -- Konstantin Stanislavski -- Lee Strasberg (The method), David Mamet (Practical aesthetics), Mary Overlie (The six viewpoints approach) -- Epic theatre -- Theater of cruelty -- Actions -- Play -- Happenings -- Performance art -- Guerrila theatre ; Tools for reading texts as systems : Aristotle and form -- The literary work as object of rational empiricism -- Saussurean linguistics -- Levi-Strauss and structuralism -- Roman Jakobson's communication model -- Roland Barthes' hierarchical structures -- Ideality and phenomenology of the literary object: Husserl and Derrida -- Dissemination -- Structure as rhizome: Deleuze and Guattari -- Permutation -- Undecidability: Derrida, Gödel, Lacan -- Simulating Systems: Baudrillard -- Multiplicity: Badiou ; Tools for social analysis : The public sphere -- Ideology -- Theories of power -- The social relation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc