TY  - GEN
AU  - Culler, Jonathan 
TI  - Literary theory : a very short introduction 
SN  - 9780199691340
U1  - 801.95 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University press
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii 
What is theory?  1
What is literature and does it matter?  19
Literature and cultural studies  43
Language, meaning, and interpretation  56
Rhetoric, poetics, and poetry  70  
Narrative  83
Performative language  95
Identity, identification, and the subject  109
Ethics and aesthetics  121
Appendix: Theoretical schools and movements  135
References  147
Further reading  155 
Index  161

ER  -