The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendiumof key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study ofliterature in a critical-theoretical context.* Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literarytexts spanning all periods and genres* Features a chapter on performance, something not usuallycovered in similar texts* Covers differing theories of the public sphere, ideology,power, and the social relations necessary for the understanding ofapproaches to literature

PrefaceChapter 1: Introductory Tools for Literary Analysis1.1. Basics1.2. Common Critical Practices1.3. Literary Language1.4. Hermeneutics1.5. Major 20th Century Schools of CriticalAnalysis1.6. Socio-Political AnalysesChapter 2: Tools for Reading Narrative2.1. Story and Plot: Fabula and Syuzhet2.2. Order2.3. Mimesis/Diegesis2.4. Free Indirect Discourse2.5. Interior Monologue2.6. Diachronic and Synchronic2.7. Intertextuality2.8. Dialogism2.9. Chronotope2.10. Character Zone2.11. Focalization2.12. Narrative CodesChapter 3: Tools for Reading Poetry3.1. Tropes3.2. Elision3.3. Resemblance3.4. Objective Correlative3.5. Language Poetry3.6. The New Sentence3.7. Sound Poetry/Concrete Poetry3.8. ProsodyChapter 4: Tools for Analyzing Performance4.1. Performance Studies4.2. Realist Theatre: Total Acting4.3. Konstantin Stanislavski4.4. Lee Strasberg (The Method), David Mamet (PracticalAesthetics), Mary Overlie (The Six Viewpoints Approach)4.5. Epic Theatre4.6. Theater of Cruelty4.7. Actions4.8. Play4.9. Happenings4.10. Performance Art4.11. Guerrila TheatreChapter 5: Tools for Reading Texts as Systems5.1. Aristotle and Form5.2. The Literary Work as Object of Rational Empiricism5.3. Saussurean Linguistics5.4. Levi-Strauss and Structuralism5.5. Roman Jakobson's Communication Model5.6. Roland Barthes' Hierarchical Structures5.7. Ideality and Phenomenology of the Literary Object: Husserland Derrida5.8. Dissemination5.9. Structure as Rhizome: Deleuze and Guattari5.10. Permutation5.11. Undecidability: Derrida, Gödel, Lacan5.12. Simulating Systems: Baudrillard5.13. Multiplicity: BadiouChapter 6: Tools for Social Analysis6.1. The Public Sphere6.2. Ideology6.3. Theories of Power6.4. The Social Relation