Cover
Title Page
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry
1. 1 British and American New Criticism
  1. References
2. 2 Chicago Formalism
  1. Aristotle and the Synolon
  2. Constructional Genre
  3. The Hypothetico‐Deductive Method
  4. Textual Autonomy
  5. Instrumental Pluralism
  6. The Second Generation: Booth, Rader, Sacks
  7. The Third and Subsequent Generations
  8. References
3. 3 Russian Formalism
  1. Context
  2. Principles
  3. Distractions
  4. Poetry
  5. “Prose”
  6. Literary History
  7. Defamiliarization
  8. References
4. 4 Structuralism and Semiotics
  1. The Keplerian Turn
  2. Structuralism(s)
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. References
5. 5 Stylistics
  1. What is Stylistics?
  2. Why so Much Focus on Language?
  3. Who is Stylistics For?
  4. Stylistics as Grammar
  5. Selectivity
  6. Foregrounding, Patterning, and Iconic Aptness
  7. Stylistic Practice and the Return of the Reader
  8. Falsifiability and Standards of Proof
  9. Disciplinary Maturity
  10. When Does “Attention to Detail” Go too Far?
  11. References
6. 6 Contemporary Narrative Theory
  1. Unnatural Narratology; or Narrative Theory and the Tradition of Non‐mimetic Narrative
  2. Fictionality; or the Borders between Fiction and Non‐fiction, and Cross‐border Traffic
  3. Theory of Mind or Mind‐Reading
  4. Feminist and Queer Narrative Theories, Intersectionality, and Critique
  5. Rhetorical Theory and the Narrative Communication Model
  6. References
Part II: The Task of Reading
1. 7 The Intention Debates
  1. How Long Has This Been Going On?: History
  2. Someone to Watch over Me: Grounding Interpretations
  3. You Like Potato, I Like Potahto: Two Sides of the Issue
  4. I Mean to Say: Intention
  5. The Half of It Dearie Blues: Is/Ought
  6. Take a Lesson from Me: Bearing
  7. You Are You: Readers
  8. Could You Use Me?: Dealings
  9. By Strauss: Texts
  10. On and On and On: Conclusion
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. References
2. 8 Deconstruction
  1. I
  2. II
  3. III
  4. References
3. 9 Reader‐Response Theory
  1. Introduction
  2. Stylistic Mastery
  3. Neural Shakespeare: The Function Shift
  4. Martindale and Dailey (1995): Disagreement Reviewed
  5. Bortolussi and Dixon (2003): Literariness
  6. References
4. 10 Empathy Studies
  1. Current scholarship and debates
  2. Narrative of the Topic
  3. Suggestions for Further Research
  4. References
5. 11 Contemporary Proposals about Reading in the Digital Age
  1. Distant Reading and Computational Text Analysis
  2. Post‐Critical Reading
  3. Histories of Everyday Reading
  4. Deformative Reading
  5. The Contested Futures of Scholarly Reading
  6. References
Part III: Literary Locations and Cultural Studies
1. 12 The Location of Literature
  1. The Serial Delimitation of Literature
  2. The Location of Literature Today
  3. The Literary System and its Trivium
  4. The Literary System and the University
  5. References
2. 13 The Verbal and the Visual
  1. The Problematic Legacy of Lessing
  2. Reading Signs
  3. Ekphrasis: Writing about Art
  4. References
3. 14 Foucault and Poststructuralism
  1. Foucault and Poststructuralism
  2. The Return to Thinking Historically
  3. The Return of Thinking About the Subject
  4. The Emphasis on Difference
  5. The Return to Thinking Philosophically about Ethics
  6. References
4. 15 Cultural Studies
  1. References
Part IV: The Politics of Literature
1. 16 Nothing If Not Determined: Marxian Criticism in History
  1. References
2. 17 The Frankfurt School and Its Successors
  1. The Frankfurt School and Cultural Studies
  2. Conclusion
  3. References
3. 18 Althusser
  1. References
4. 19 New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
  1. References
5. 20 Emmanuel Levinas and Giorgio Agamben
  1. Encountering Heidegger
  2. Levinas and Literature
  3. Agamben’s Archaeology of Commandment
  4. References
6. 21 Postcolonial Theory
  1. The Problem of Postcolonial Theory
  2. The Anti‐Colonial Roots of Postcolonial Thought
  3. From Poststructuralism to Postcolonial Theory
  4. References
7. 22 Globalization Studies
  1. Introduction: What Is Globalization?
  2. A New Role for the Imagination in Social Life
  3. Globalization and Literary Studies
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. References
Part V: Identities
1. 23 Race/Literature/Theory
  1. References
2. 24 Ethnic Studies
  1. Introduction
  2. Struggles Over Literatures
  3. Reading Otherwise
  4. Conclusion
  5. References
3. 25 Anglophone Feminisms
  1. References
4. 26 Gender Theory
  1. The Interdisciplinarity of Gender Theory
  2. Masculinity Studies
  3. Transgender Studies
  4. Femininities in the 1990s, Girlhood Studies
  5. References
5. 27 Queer Theory
  1. Queering Gender/Sexuality
  2. Queering Sociality
  3. Critiques of Queer Theory, and Responses
  4. The Reach of Queer Theory
  5. References
6. 28 Disability Studies
  1. Disability as an Identity
  2. Early Literary Disability Studies and Normalcy
  3. Reading Disability
  4. Recovering Disabled Writing
  5. Going Forward: Disability and Intersectionality
  6. References
7. 29 Trauma Studies
  1. Starting with Freud
  2. Literary Trauma Theory: Caruth and the First Wave
  3. Pluralistic Trauma Theory: A New Model
  4. References
Part VI: Bodies and Their Minds
1. 30 Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism
  1. References
2. 31 Lacanian Psychoanalytic Criticism
  1. Methods for Reading Lacan
  2. Subject to Texts?
  3. Lacan’s Theory of Discourse
  4. References
3. 32 Archetypal Criticism
  1. References
4. 33 Cognitive Literary Criticism
  1. Reading
  2. Metaphor
  3. Narrative and Fictional Worlds
  4. Empathy and Other Minds
  5. Imagery and the Question of Immersive Reading
  6. Cognitive Poetics and Poetry
  7. Postscript: Cognitive Historicism
  8. References
Part VII: Scientific Inflections
1. 34 Evolutionary Literary Theory
  1. The Historical Provenance and Main Contentions of Evolutionary Literary Theory
  2. The Institutional Position of Evolutionary Literary Scholars
  3. Governing Ideas in Evolutionary Biology
  4. The Evolution of Specifically Human Characteristics
  5. The Adaptive Functions of Literature and the Other Arts
  6. Evolutionary Literary Criticism
  7. The Future
  8. References
2. 35 Ecocriticism
  1. Early and Middle Years
  2. Contentious Later Years
  3. Ecocriticism’s Expanding Purview
  4. References
3. 36 Cybernetics and Posthumanism
  1. References
Index
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