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Literary Criticism and Theories

Notes 5.6 Key-Words

1. Poststructuralism : Term used to describe those kinds of thinking and writing that disturb
or exceed the ‘merely’ rational or scientific, self-assuredly ‘systematic’
work of structuralists. It is primarily associated with the work of Derrida,
Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Cixous and (post-1967) Barthes.
Poststructuralism entails a rigorous and, in principle, interminable
questioning of every centrism (logocentrism, ethnocentrism,
anthropocentrism, etc.), of all origins and ends, meaning and intention,
paradigm or system.

5.7 Review Questions

1. Briefly explain the life of Stanley Fish.
2. Discuss Stanley Fish as a critic.
3. What is meant by Interpretive communities? Discuss.
Answers: Self-Assessment

1. (i)(a) (ii)(c) (iii)(a) (iv)(a)
5.8 Further Readings

1. Lodge, David and Nigel Woods (eds.) Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader,
2nd edition, New Delhi: Pearson Education Ltd., 2005.
2. Guerin, Wilfred L. & et. al, A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, 5th
edition, New Delhi: OUP, 2007.
3. Barry, Peter, Beginning Theory: An introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory,
1st edition, Manchester: MUP, 2002.
4. Bloom, Harold et. al, Deconstruction and Criticism. London: Routledge, 1979.
5. Handy, William and Max Westbook, (eds,) Twentieth Century Criticism, New
York: Free Press, Macmillan, 1977.

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