Companion to Literary Theory

David H. Richter, 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 The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel and Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel.

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgements xvIntroduction 1David H. RichterPart I Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry 91 British and American New Criticism 11William E. Cain2 Chicago Formalism 24David H. Richter3 Russian Formalism 36David Gorman4 Structuralism and Semiotics 48Marina Grishakova5 Stylistics 60Michael Toolan6 Contemporary Narrative Theory 72James PhelanPart II The Task of Reading 857 The Intention Debates 87Peter J. Rabinowitz8 Deconstruction 100Christopher Norris9 Reader‐Response Theory 114David S. Miall10 Empathy Studies 126Suzanne Keen11 Contemporary Proposals about Reading in the Digital Age 139Rachel Sagner Buurma and Matthew K. GoldPart III Literary Locations and Cultural Studies 15112 The Location of Literature 153John Guillory13 The Verbal and the Visual 165James A. W. Heffernan14 Foucault and Poststructuralism 176Alan D. Schrift15 Cultural Studies 188Paul SmithPart IV The Politics of Literature 20316 Nothing If Not Determined: Marxian Criticism in History 205Robert Kaufman17 The Frankfurt School and Its Successors 218Jeffrey T. Nealon18 Althusser: Structuralist or Anti‐Structuralist? 229Warren Montag19 New Historicism and Cultural Materialism 238Neema Parvini20 Emmanuel Levinas and Giorgio Agamben: Ethics, Aesthetics, Poetics, Politics 250Thomas Carl Wall21 Postcolonial Theory 261Siraj Ahmed22 Globalization Studies 275Diana BrydonPart V Identities 28923 Race/Literature/Theory 291James Braxton Peterson24 Ethnic Studies: Reading Otherwise 302Ron Scapp25 Anglophone Feminisms 314Robyn Warhol26 Gender Theory: Femininities and Masculinities 325Margaret Galvan27 Queer Theory 336Steven F. Kruger28 Disability Studies 348Christopher Krentz29 Trauma Studies 360Michelle BalaevPart VI Bodies and Their Minds 37330 Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism 375Daniel T. O’Hara31 Lacanian Psychoanalytic Criticism 385Karen Coats32 Archetypal Criticism: Jung and Frye 396Glen Robert Gill33 Cognitive Literary Criticism 408G. Gabrielle StarrPart VII Scientific Inflections 42334 Evolutionary Literary Theory 425Joseph Carroll35 Ecocriticism: The Expanding Universe 439Harold Fromm36 Cybernetics and Posthumanism 451Thomas Foster Index 463