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Record Nr.

UNINA9910271048903321

Titolo

A companion to literary theory / / edited by David H. Richter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-78785-661-5

1-118-95873-X

1-118-95875-6

1-118-95893-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (497 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

LIT000000

Disciplina

801.95 23

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Literature - Philosophy

Criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note:  Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements (awaiting) Introduction I. Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry 1. British and American New Criticism (William Cain) 2. Chicago Formalism (David Richter) 3. Russian Formalism (David Gorman) 4. Structuralism and Semiotics (Marina Grishakova) 5. Stylistics (Michael Toolan) 6. Contemporary Narrative Theory (James Phelan) II. The Task of Reading 7. The Intention Debates (Peter Rabinowitz) 8. Deconstruction (Christopher Norris) 9. Reader-Response Theory (David S. Miall) 10. Empathy Studies (Suzanne Keen) 11. Contemporary Proposals about Reading in the Digital Age (Matthew Gold and Rachel Sagner Buurma) III. Literary Locations and Cultural Studies 12. The Location of Literature (John Guillory) 13. The Verbal and the Visual (James A. W. Heffernan) 14. Foucault and Poststructuralism (Alan D. Schrift) 15. Cultural Studies (Paul Smith) IV. The Politics of Literature 16. Marxian Criticism in History (Robert Kaufman) 17. The Frankfurt School and Its Successors (Jeffrey T. Nealon) 18. Althusser: Structuralist or Anti-Structuralist (Warren Montag) 19. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (Neema Parvini) 20. Levinas and Agamben (Thomas Carl



Wall) 21. Postcolonial Theory (Siraj Ahmed) 22. Globalization Studies (Diana Brydon) V. Identities 23. Race/Literature/Theory (James Braxton Peterson) 24. Ethnic Studies (Ron Scapp) 25. Anglophone Feminisms (Robyn Warhol) 26. Gender Theory: Femininities and Masculinities (Margaret Galvan) 27. Queer Theory (Steven Kruger) 28. Disability Studies (Christopher Krentz) 29. Trauma Studies (Michelle Balaev) VI. Bodies and Their Minds 30. Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism (Daniel T. O'Hara) 31. Lacanian Psychoanalytic Criticism (Karen Coats) 32. Archetypal Criticism: Jung and Frye (Glen Robert Gill) 33. Cognitive Literary Criticism (Gabrielle Starr) VII. Scientific Inflections 34. Evolutionary Literary Theory (Joseph Carroll) 35. Ecocriticism (Harold Fromm) 36. Cybernetics and Posthumanism (Thomas Foster) Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book gathers together three dozen original essays, all by noted scholars in their fields, and designed to introduce the general reader to the latest ideas about the literary and cultural theory of the last half century, focusing on the ideas that are still alive today"--