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A Companion to Literary Theory


A Companion to Literary Theory


Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Aufl.

von: David H. Richter

36,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 16.02.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9781118958759
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 496

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<p><b>Introduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century</b></p> <p><i>A Companion to Literary Theory</i> is a collection of 36 original essays, all by noted scholars in their field, designed to introduce the modes and ideas of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Arranged by topic rather than chronology, in order to highlight the relationships between earlier and most recent theoretical developments, the book groups its chapters into seven convenient sections: I. Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry; II. The Task of Reading; III. Literary Locations and Cultural Studies; IV. The Politics of Literature; V. Identities; VI. Bodies and Their Minds; and VII. Scientific Inflections.</p> <p>Allotting proper space to all areas of theory most relevant today, this comprehensive volume features three dozen masterfully written chapters covering such subjects as: Anglo-American New Criticism; Chicago Formalism; Russian Formalism; Derrida and Deconstruction; Empathy/Affect Studies; Foucault and Poststructuralism; Marx and Marxist Literary Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Ethnic Studies; Gender Theory; Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism; Cognitive Literary Theory; Evolutionary Literary Theory; Cybernetics and Posthumanism; and much more.</p> <ul> <li>Features 36 essays by noted scholars in the field</li> <li>Fills a growing need for companion books that can guide readers through the thicket of ideas, systems, and terminologies</li> <li>Presents important contemporary literary theory while examining those of the past</li> </ul> <p>The Wiley-Blackwell<i> Companion to Literary Theory</i> will be welcomed by college and university students seeking an accessible and authoritative guide to the complex and often intimidating modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century.</p>
<p>Notes on Contributors viii</p> <p>Acknowledgements xv</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /><i>David H. Richter</i></p> <p><b>Part I Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry 9</b></p> <p>1 British and American New Criticism 11<br /><i>William E. Cain</i></p> <p>2 Chicago Formalism 24<br /><i>David H. Richter</i></p> <p>3 Russian Formalism 36<br /><i>David Gorman</i></p> <p>4 Structuralism and Semiotics 48<br /><i>Marina Grishakova</i></p> <p>5 Stylistics 60<br /><i>Michael Toolan</i></p> <p>6 Contemporary Narrative Theory 72<br /><i>James Phelan</i></p> <p><b>Part II The Task of Reading 85</b></p> <p>7 The Intention Debates 87<br /><i>Peter J. Rabinowitz</i></p> <p>8 Deconstruction 100<br /><i>Christopher Norris</i></p> <p>9 Reader‐Response Theory 114<br /><i>David S. Miall</i></p> <p>10 Empathy Studies 126<br /><i>Suzanne Keen</i></p> <p>11 Contemporary Proposals about Reading in the Digital Age 139<br /><i>Rachel Sagner Buurma and Matthew K. Gold</i></p> <p><b>Part III Literary Locations and Cultural Studies 151</b></p> <p>12 The Location of Literature 153<br /><i>John Guillory</i></p> <p>13 The Verbal and the Visual 165<br /><i>James A. W. Heffernan</i></p> <p>14 Foucault and Poststructuralism 176<br /><i>Alan D. Schrift</i></p> <p>15 Cultural Studies 188<br /><i>Paul Smith</i></p> <p><b>Part IV The Politics of Literature 203</b></p> <p>16 Nothing If Not Determined: Marxian Criticism in History 205<br /><i>Robert Kaufman</i></p> <p>17 The Frankfurt School and Its Successors 218<br /><i>Jeffrey T. Nealon</i></p> <p>18 Althusser: Structuralist or Anti‐Structuralist? 229<br /><i>Warren Montag</i></p> <p>19 New Historicism and Cultural Materialism 238<br /><i>Neema Parvini</i></p> <p>20 Emmanuel Levinas and Giorgio Agamben: Ethics, Aesthetics, Poetics, Politics 250<br /><i>Thomas Carl Wall</i></p> <p>21 Postcolonial Theory 261<br /><i>Siraj Ahmed</i></p> <p>22 Globalization Studies 275<br /><i>Diana Brydon</i></p> <p><b>Part V Identities 289</b></p> <p>23 Race/Literature/Theory 291<b><br /></b><i>James Braxton Peterson</i></p> <p>24 Ethnic Studies: Reading Otherwise 302<br /><i>Ron Scapp</i></p> <p>25 Anglophone Feminisms 314<br /><i>Robyn Warhol</i></p> <p>26 Gender Theory: Femininities and Masculinities 325<br /><i>Margaret Galvan</i></p> <p>27 Queer Theory 336<br /><i>Steven F. Kruger</i></p> <p>28 Disability Studies 348<br /><i>Christopher Krentz</i></p> <p>29 Trauma Studies 360<br /><i>Michelle Balaev</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Bodies and Their Minds 373</b></p> <p>30 Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism 375<b><br /></b><i>Daniel T. O’Hara </i></p> <p>31 Lacanian Psychoanalytic Criticism 385<br /><i>Karen Coats</i></p> <p>32 Archetypal Criticism: Jung and Frye 396<br /><i>Glen Robert Gill</i></p> <p>33 Cognitive Literary Criticism 408<br /><i>G. Gabrielle Starr</i></p> <p><b>Part VII Scientific Inflections 423</b></p> <p>34 Evolutionary Literary Theory 425<br /><i>Joseph Carroll</i></p> <p>35 Ecocriticism: The Expanding Universe 439<br /><i>Harold Fromm</i></p> <p>36 Cybernetics and Posthumanism 451<br /><i>Thomas Foster</i></p> <p>Index 463</p>
<p><b>David H. Richter,</b> PhD is Professor of English at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.He publishes in the fields of critical and narrative theory (including film theory), biblical interpretation, and eighteenth-century literature. His most recent critical books are <i>The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel</i> and <i>Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel.</i></p>
<p><b>Introduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century</b></p> <p><i>A Companion to Literary Theory</i> is a collection of 36 original essays, all by noted scholars in their field, designed to introduce the modes and ideas of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Arranged by topic rather than chronology, in order to highlight the relationships between earlier and most recent theoretical developments, the book groups its chapters into seven convenient sections: I. Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry; II. The Task of Reading; III. Literary Locations and Cultural Studies; IV. The Politics of Literature; V. Identities; VI. Bodies and Their Minds; and VII. Scientific Inflections.</p> <p>Allotting proper space to all areas of theory most relevant today, this comprehensive volume features three dozen masterfully written chapters covering such subjects as: Anglo-American New Criticism; Chicago Formalism; Russian Formalism; Derrida and Deconstruction; Empathy/Affect Studies; Foucault and Poststructuralism; Marx and Marxist Literary Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Ethnic Studies; Gender Theory; Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism; Cognitive Literary Theory; Evolutionary Literary Theory; Cybernetics and Posthumanism; and much more.</p> <ul> <li>Features 36 essays by noted scholars in the field</li> <li>Fills a growing need for companion books that can guide readers through the thicket of ideas, systems, and terminologies</li> <li>Presents important contemporary literary theory while examining those of the past</li> </ul> <p>The Wiley-Blackwell <i>A Companion to Literary Theory</i> will be welcomed by college and university students seeking an accessible and authoritative guide to the complex and often intimidating modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century.</p>

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