Title Introducing Literary Theories : A Guide and Glossary / Julian Wolfreys

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2001

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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part I Critical Discourse in Europe -- René Descartes (1596-1650) and Baruch Spinoza (1632±1677): Beginnings -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) -- Johann Christian Friedrich Höelderlin (1770-1843) -- Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) and Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) -- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) and Structural Linguistics -- Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) -- Phenomenology -- Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) and Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995): Epistemology in France -- Jean Paulhan (1884-1969) and/versus Francis Ponge (1899-1988) -- György Lukács (1885-1971) -- Russian Formalism, the Moscow Linguistics Circle, and Prague Structuralism: Boris Eichenbaum (1886-1959), Jan Mukarovsky (1891-1975), Victor Shklovsky (1893-1984), Yuri Tynyanov (1894-1943), Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) -- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) -- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) -- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) -- Reception Theory: Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-) and the Geneva School -- The Frankfurt School, the Marxist Tradition, Culture and Critical Thinking: Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), Jürgen Habermas (1929-) -- Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) -- Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and Maurice Blanchot (1907-) -- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) -- Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) -- The Reception of Hegel and Heidegger in France: Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968), Jean Hyppolite (1907-1968), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), Albert Camus (1913-1960) and Existentialism -- Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) -- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) and French Feminism -- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-) -- Jean Genet (1910-1986) -- Paul Ricoeur (1913-) -- Roland Barthes (1915-1980) -- French Structuralism: A. J. Greimas (1917-1992), Tzvetan Todorov (1939-) and Gérard Genette (1930-) -- Louis Althusser (1918-1990) and his Circle -- Reception Theory and Reader-Response (I): Hans-Robert Jauss (1922-1997), Wolfgang Iser (1926-) and the School of Konstanz -- Jean-FrancË ois Lyotard (1925-1998) and Jean Baudrillard (1929-): The Suspicion of Metanarratives -- The Social and the Cultural: Michel de Certeau (1925-1986), Pierre Bourdieu (1930-) and Louis Marin (1931-1992) -- Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) -- Michel Foucault (1926-1984) -- Jacques Derrida (1930-) -- Luce Irigaray (1930-) -- Christian Metz (1931-1993) -- Guy Debord (1931-1994) and the Situationist International -- Umberto Eco (1932-) -- Modernities: Paul Virilio (1932-), Gianni Vattimo (1936-), Giorgio Agamben (1942-) -- Hélène Cixous (1938-) -- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-) and Jean- Luc Nancy (1940-) -- Julia Kristeva (1941-) -- Slavoj Žižek (1949-) -- Cahiers du Cinéma(1951-) -- Critical Fictions: Experiments in Writing from Le Nouveau Roman to the Oulipo -- Tel Quel(1960-1982) -- Other French Feminisms: Sarah Kofman (1934-1994), Monique Wittig (1935-), Michèle Le Doeuff (1948-) -- Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism in France -- Part II Theories and Practice of Criticism in North America -- Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and Semiotics -- The New Criticism -- The Chicago School -- Northrop Frye (1912-1991) -- The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism -- Reception Theory and Reader-Response (II): Norman Holland (1927-), Stanley Fish (1938-) and David Bleich (1940-) -- The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller (1928-), Geoffrey Hartman (1929-), Harold Bloom (1930-), Paul de Man (1919-1983) -- Deconstruction in America -- Fredric Jameson (1934-) and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism -- Edward W. Said (1935-) -- American Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism -- Feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s: The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies -- Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism -- Feminists of Colour -- Stephen Greenblatt (1943-) and the New Historicism -- Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Theory -- Postcolonial Studies -- Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism -- African-American Studies -- Chicano/a Literature -- Film Studies -- Feminist Film Studies and Film Theory -- Ethical Criticism -- Postmodernism -- The Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate -- Whiteness Studies -- Masculinity and Cultural Studies -- Part III Criticism, Literary and Cultural Studies in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772±1834) and Matthew Arnold (1822±1888) -- John Ruskin (1819-1900) and Walter Pater (1839-1894): Aesthetics and the State -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): Aesthetics and Criticism -- The Cambridge School: Sir Arthur Quiller- Couch (1863-1944), I. A. Richards (1893-1979) and William Empson (1906-1984) -- James Joyce (1882-1941): Theories of Literature -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): Aesthetics -- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- After the ̀Cambridge School': F. R. Leavis (1895-1978), Scrutiny (1932-1952) and Literary Studies in Britain -- J. L. Austin (1911-1960) and Speech-Act Theory -- Richard Hoggart (1918-), Raymond Williams (1921-1988) and the Emergence of Cultural Studies -- Raymond Williams (1921-1988) -- Stuart Hall (1932-) -- Terry Eagleton (1943-) -- Screen(1971-) -- Structuralism and the Structuralist Controversy -- The Spread of Literary Theory in Britain -- Feminism and Poststructuralism -- Cultural Studies -- Cultural Materialism -- Postcolonial Studies -- Gay/Queer and Lesbian Studies, Criticism and Theory -- Ernesto Laclau (1935-), Chantal Mouffe (1948-) and Post-Marxism -- Psychoanalysis in Literary and Cultural Studies -- Feminism, Materialism and the Debate on Postmodernism in British Universities -- British Poststructuralism since 1968 -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Index Summary Introducing Literary Theories is an ideal introduction for those coming to literary theory for the first time. It provides an accessible introduction to the major theoretical approaches in chapters covering: Bakhtinian Criticism, Structuralism, Feminist Theory, Marxist Literary Theories, Reader-Response Theories, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Deconstruction, Poststructuralism, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Postcolonial Theory, Gay Studies/ Queer Theories, Cultural Studies and Postmodernism.A table of contents arranged by theoretical method and a second arranged by key texts offer the reader alternative pathways through the volume and a general introduction, which traces the history and importance of literary theory, complete the introductory material.In each of the following chapters, the authors provide a clear presentation of the theory in question and notes towards a reading of a key text to help the student understand both the methodology and the practice of literary theory. The texts used for illustration include: In Memoriam A. H. H., Middlemarch, Mrs Dalloway, Paradise Lost, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Prospero's Books, The Swimming Pool Library and The Tempest. Every chapter ends with a set of questions for further consideration, an annotated bibliography and a supplementary bibliography while a glossary of critical terms completes the book.Derived and adapted from the successful foundation textbook, Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide, Introducing Literary Theories is a highly readable, self-contained and comprehensive guide that succeeds in making contemporary theory easily understandable.Each chapter provides:An overview of the theoryNotes towards readings of canonical literary textsQuestions for further considerationAn annotated bibliographyA supplementary bibliographyKey FeaturesComplex ideas are clearly explained A double table of contents provides different ways of navigating through the volumeCoverage of the theories is balanced with analysis of key textsQuestions at the end of each chapter direct the reader to consider further theoretical matters and to making theoretically informed readings of literary textsIncludes full guidance about further readingOffers an ideal guide for students at all levels who are new to literary theory as well as general readersProvides a Glossary of critical terms for easy reference Notes In English Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Subject Criticism -- History -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM / General. Criticism Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Ahmadi, Amir, contributor. Alderson, David, contributor. Altieri, Charles, contributor. Baetens, Jan, contributor. Baker, William, contributor. Barry, Peter, contributor. Baucom, Ian, contributor. Becker-Leckrone, Megan, contributor. Bowman, Paul, contributor. Brandt, Joan, contributor. Brannigan, John, contributor. Butzel, Marcia, contributor. Chang, Heesok, contributor. Ching-Liang Low, Gail, contributor. Clum, John M., contributor. Colebrook, Claire, contributor. Constable, Elizabeth, contributor. Cornis-Pope, Marcel, contributor. Currie, Mark, contributor. Donadey, Anne, contributor. Easthope, Antony, contributor. Ferretter, Luke, contributor. Flesch, William, contributor. Flint, Kate, contributor. Flower MacCannell, Juliet, contributor. Fluhr, Nicole, contributor. Fóti, Véronique M., contributor. Geest, Dirk de, contributor. Gertz, SunHee Kim, contributor. Goldman, Jane, contributor. Graef, Ortwin de, contributor. Green, Karen, contributor. Haase, Ullrich Michael, contributor. Hart, Kevin, contributor. Haslett, Moyra, contributor. Higgins, Lynn A., contributor. Holub, Robert C., contributor. Howie, Gillian, contributor. Hsing Wu, Yun, contributor. Kershner, R. Brandon, contributor. Kruger, Loren, contributor. Kucich, John, contributor. Lane, Jeremy, contributor. Leonard, Garry, contributor. Lesjak, Carolyn, contributor. Lewis, Mitchell R., contributor. Lezra, Jacques, contributor. Loesberg, Jonathan, contributor. Lucy, Niall, contributor. MacCannell, Juliet Flower, contributor. Mansfield, Nick, contributor. Maná de la Luz Montes, Amelia, contributor. Mason Vaughan, Virginia, contributor. McQuillan, Martin, contributor. Miller, Toby, contributor. Milner, Andrew, contributor. Montag, Warren, contributor. Newton, K. M., contributor. Nies, Betsy, contributor. Niro, Brian, contributor. Plotnitsky, Arkady, contributor. Punter, David, contributor. Rabaté, Jean-Michel, contributor. Rand, Nicholas T., contributor. Robbins, Ruth, contributor. Rocheleau, Alain-Michel, contributor. Ross, Alison, contributor. Salusinszky, Imre, contributor. Schueller, Malini Johar, contributor. Shapiro, Stephen, contributor. Surin, Kenneth, contributor. Tambling, Jeremy, contributor. Tauchert, Ashley, contributor. Turim, Maureen, contributor. Van Leer, David, contributor. Walsh, Michael, contributor. Wilson, Leigh, contributor. Wiseman, Boris, contributor. Wolfreys, Julian, contributor. Womack, Kenneth, contributor. Ziarek, Ewa, contributor. ISBN 1474473636 9781474473637

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