For students of literature, a background in literary theory will provide tools for analysis that yield a rich understanding of literary texts as well as a variety of approaches to writing about them. This is the first introductory Spanish-language textbook to present the complex and challenging thought of Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Kristeva and other leading authors, as well as feminists of the first and second waves, Russian formalists, Marxists, post-colonial writers, cultural and queer studies theorists and many other central thinkers in literary theory.

Each chapter explores a separate theory and discusses its fundamental concepts and how they apply to literary texts at a basic level. Chapters are identically organized, better helping students to compare and link theories. There are four sections at the end of each chapter, including a collection of review questions that provide instructors with direction for class discussion, a series of ideas for applying each theory to literary works, a glossary and a bibliography.

Juan M. Godoy Marquet is a professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at San Diego State University, teaching courses in literature and literary theory. He has published numerous articles about topics in peninsular literature, including the poetry of Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, and Emilio Prados.

Juan M. Godoy Marquet
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 236
Bibliographic Info: ca. 10 photos, glossary, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2023
pISBN: 978-1-4766-8605-9
eISBN: 978-1-4766-4722-7
Imprint: McFarland

Reconocimientos  vi
Introducción  1
I. El formalismo ruso  7
II. Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975)  25
III. Teorías estructuralistas  35
IV. Teorías postestructuralistas  49
V. Roland Barthes (1915–1980)  56
VI. Michel Foucault (1926–1984)  70
VII. Jacques Lacan (1901–1981)  82
VIII. Jacques Derrida (1930–2004)  96
IX. Teorías feministas  118
X. Postfeminismo: Julia Kristeva (1941– ), Luce Irigaray (1930– ), Hélène Cixous (1937– )  132
XI. Teorías marxistas  150
XII. Teorías poscolonialistas  164
XIII. Teorías gays, lesbianas y queer  176
XIV. Estudios culturales  192
XV. Teorías posmodernistas  206
Bibliografía  221
Índice temático  223