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A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

Autor Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson, Peter Brooker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 dec 2016
A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory is a classic introduction to the complex yet crucial area of literary theory. This book is known for its clear, accessible style and its thorough, logical approach, guiding the reader through the essentials of literary theory. It includes two new chapters: ‘New Materialisms’ which incorporates ecocriticism, animal studies, posthumanism and thing theory; ‘21st Century and Future Developments’ which includes technology, digital humanities, ethics and affect.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138917460
ISBN-10: 113891746X
Pagini: 318
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:6 ed
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Contents
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Introduction
1. New Criticism, moral formalism and F. R. Leavis
Origins: Eliot, Richards, Empson
The American New Critic
Moral formalism: F. R. Leavis
2. Russian formalism and the Bakhtin School
Shklovsky, Mukařovský, Jakobson
The Bakhtin School
3. Reader-oriented theories
Phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer
Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser
Fish, Riffaterre, Bleich
4. Structuralism
The linguistic background
Structuralist narratology
Metaphor and metonymy
Structuralist poetics
5. Marxism
Soviet Socialist Realism
Lukács and Brecht
The Frankfurt School and After: Adorno and Benjamin
‘Structuralist’ Marxism: Goldmann, Althusser, Macherey
‘New Left’ Marxism: Williams, Eagleton, Jameson
6. Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Jacques Lacan
Trauma Studies
Slavoj Žižek
7. Feminism
First-wave feminist criticism: Woolf and de Beauvoir
Second-wave feminist criticism
Kate Millett: sexual politics
Marxist feminism
Elaine Showalter: gynocriticism
French feminism: Kristeva, Cixous, Irigaray
8 Poststructuralism
Roland Barthes
Deleuze and Guattari
Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida
American deconstruction
Michel Foucault
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
9. Postmodernism
Jean Baudrillard
Jean-François Lyotard
Postmodernism and Marxism
Postmodern feminisms
10. Postcolonialism, race and ethnicity
Edward Said
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Homi K. Bhabha
Race and ethnicity
11. Gay, lesbian and queer theories
Gay theory and criticism
Lesbian feminist theory and criticism
Queer theory and criticism
12. Post-theory
13. Ecocriticism, animal studies, thing theory
Ecocriticism
Animal Studies
Thing theory
14. World literature and digital humanities
World literature
Digital Humanities
Appendix
1: Glossaries and dictionaries of theoretical and critical terms
2: Literary, critical and cultural theory journals
Index of names, titles and topics

Descriere

A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory is a classic introduction to the complex yet crucial area of literary theory. The 6th edition includes two new chapters: ‘New Materialisms’ and ‘21st Century and Future Developments’.

Notă biografică

Raman Selden is late Professor of English at the University of Sunderland.

Peter Widdowson is Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Gloucestershire. His most recent books include: Literature (1999); The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and its Contexts 1500–2000 (2004); and Graham Swift (2005).

Peter Brooker is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is the author most recently of  Modernity and Metropolis. Literature, Film and Urban Formations (2002); Bohemiain London. The Social Scene of Early Modernism (2004); and A Glossary of Cultural Theory (second edition, 2002). He is co-editor of Geographies of Modernism (2005) and co-founder of ‘The Modernist Magazines Project’.

Recenzii

"The best of the many guides to literary theory that are currently available. Widdowson and Brooker chart a clear and comprehensively documented path through the full range of what is best in contemporary literary theory…indispensable for all students of literature…An impressive achievement!"
--John Drakakis, Stirling University, UK

"This Guide is as stimulating and instructive an introduction to [literary theory] as any reader might wish for."
John Kenny, Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, National University of Ireland, Galway