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 \n·give essential information about the context and history of each topiccovered;  \n·show how to develop a practice which is up-to-date and informed bytheory.  \nEach book focuses uncompromisingly upon the needs of its readers,whohave the right to expect lucidity and clarity to be the distinctive feature of abook which includes the word 'beginning'in its title.  \nEach aims to lay a firm foundation of well understood initial principles as abasis for further study and is committed to explaining new aspects of thediscipline without over-simplification,but in a manner appropriate to the needsof beginners.  \nEach book,finally,aims to be both an introduction and a contribution to thetopic area it discusses.  \nAlso in the series  \nBeginning film studies(second edition)Andrew DixBeginning realismSteven Earnshaw  \nBeginning ethnic American literaturesHelena Grice,Candida Hepworth,Maria Lauret and Martin PadgetBeginning ShakespeareLisa Hopkins  \nBeginning postcolonialism(second edition)John McLeod  \nBeginning modernismJeff Wallace  \nBeginning postmodernism(second edition)Tim Woods  \nBeginning theory  \nAn introduction to literary and cultural theory  \nFourth editionPeter Barry  \nManchester University Press  \nCopyright C Peter Barry 1995,2002,2009,2017  \nThe right of Peter Barry to be identified as the author of this work has beenasserted by him in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nThe publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs forany external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book,and does notguarantee that any content on such websites is,or will remain,accurate orappropriate.  \nFirst edition published 1995,reprinted nine times.  \nSecond edition published 2002,reprinted seven times.  \nThird edition published 2009,reprinted seven times.  \nPublished by Manchester University Press  \nAltrincham Street,Manchester M17JA,UK  \nwww.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk  \nBritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data is available  \nISBN 9781526121790 paperback  \nThis edition first published 2017  \n17  16  15  14109876  \nContents  \nAcknowledgements  \nPreface to the fourth edition  \nIntroduction  \nAbout this bookApproaching theoryMy own 'stock-taking’  \n1 Theory before 'theory'  \nThe history of English studiesTen tenets of liberal humanism  \nLiterary theorising from Aristotle to Leavis-some key momentsLiberal humanism in practiceThe turn to 'theory  \nSome recurrent ideas in critical theorySelected reading  \n2 Structuralism  \nStructuralist chickens and liberal humanist eggsSigns of the fathers-SaussureThe scope of structuralismWhat structuralist critics doStructuralist criticism:examplesSelected reading  \n3 Post-structuralism and deconstruction  \nSome theoretical differences between structuralism and post-structuralism  \nPost-structuralism-life on a decentred planet  \nA note on the translation of Of Grammatology and on 'reading’Structuralism and post-structuralism-some practical differencesWhat post-structuralist critics doDeconstruction:an exampleSelected reading  \n4 Postmodernism  \nWhat is postmodernism?What was modernism?  \nLandmarks'in postmodernism-Habermas,Lyotard,and BaudrillardWhat postmodernist critics doPostmodernist criticism:an exampleSelected reading  \n# 5 Psychoanalytic criticism\n\nIntroduction  \nShould we say 'unconscious'or 'subconscious'when discussingFreudian ideas?  \nHow Freudian interpretation worksFreud and evidence  \nWhat Freudian psychoanalytic critics doFreudian psychoanalytic criticism:examplesLacan  \nWhat Lacanian critics doLacanian criticism:an exampleSelected reading","cbCaibgLtOf8vjtZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibgLtOf8vjtZ","pdf",6512472,296,"English","# Contents\n## Introduction\n## 1 Theory before 'theory'\n## 2 Structuralism\n## 3 Post-structuralism and deconstruction\n## 4 Postmodernism\n## 5 Psychoanalytic criticism\n## 6 Feminist criticism\n## 7 Queer theory\n## 8 Marxist criticism\n## 9 New historicism and cultural materialism\n## 10 Postcolonial criticism\n## 11 Stylistics\n## 12 Narratology\n## 13 Ecocriticism\n## 14 Literary theory-a history in ten events","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the book series “Beginnings”?\",\"answer\":\"The series is designed to help students tackle recent developments in English, Literary Studies, and Cultural Studies. 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