Theory of Literature

by Paul H. Fry

Book Overview

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them hermeneutics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300180837
• ISBN13: 9780300180831
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"