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Companion to Literary Theory

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvDavid H. Richter,USA) Richter, David H. (Queens College; Graduate Center, City University of New York,David H Richter

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Introduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half centuryA Companion to Literary Theory 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.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. Features 36 essays by noted scholars in the fieldFills a growing need for companion books that can guide readers through the thicket of ideas, systems, and terminologiesPresents important contemporary literary theory while examining those of the pastThe Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Literary Theory 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-18
Mått170 x 244 x 49 mm
Vikt1 185 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBlackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Antal sidor608
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781119406907

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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’Hara 31 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 FosterIndex 463