Michael Groden is a distinguished university professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Martin Kreiswirth is a professor of English and associate provost, dean of graduate and postdoctoral studies at McGill University. Imre Szeman is a professor of English and film studies and Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.

• PrefaceATheodor W. AdornoAfrican American Theory and Criticism1. Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement2. 1977 to 19903. The 1990sGiorgio AgambenBAlain BadiouMikhail BakhtinÉtienne BalibarRoland BarthesGeorges BatailleJean BaudrillardSimone de BeauvoirWalter BenjaminHomi K. BhabhaMaurice BlanchotPierre BourdieuJudith ButlerCMichel de CerteauHélène CixousCultural Studies1. United Kingdom2. United States3. Australia4. CanadaDPaul de ManDeconstruction1. Derrida, de Man, and the Yale Critics2. The 1980s and AfterGilles Deleuze and Félix GuattariJacques DerridaDiscourse1. Discourse Analysis2. Discourse TheoryETerry EagletonEcocriticismEthicsFFrantz FanonFeminist Theory and Criticism1. From Movement Critique to Discourse Analysis2. Anglo-American Feminisms3. Poststructuralist Feminisms4. Materialist Feminisms5. 1990 and AfterStanley FishMichel FoucaultFrankfurt SchoolFrench Theory and Criticism: 1945 and AfterSigmund FreudNorthrop FryeGHenry Louis Gates Jr.GenderPaul GilroyGlobalizationAntonio GramsciStephen GreenblattHStuart HallDonna HarawayMartin HeideggerILuce IrigarayJFredric JamesonKJulia KristevaLJacques LacanLaw and LiteratureEmmanuel LevinasLinguistics and LanguageGeorg LukácsJean-François LyotardMMarxist Theory and Criticism1. Classical Marxism2. Structuralist Marxism3. 1989 and AfterModernist Theory and CriticismFranco MorettiMulticulturalismNJean-Luc NancyNarratologyNational LiteratureNative Theory and Criticism1. United States2. CanadaNew HistoricismPPhenomenologyPostcolonial Studies1. Origins to the 1980s2. 1990 and AfterPostmodernismPsychoanalytic Theory and Criticism1. Traditional Freudian Criticism2. Reconceptualizing Freud3. The Post-LacaniansQQueer Theory and Criticism1. Gay Male2. Lesbian3. Queer TheoryRRace and EthnicityJacques RancièreReader-Response CriticismReception TheorySEdward W. SaidFerdinand de SaussureScience StudiesEve Kosofsky SedgwickSemioticsSpeech ActsGayatri Chakravorty SpivakStructuralismWRaymond WilliamsZSlavoj ZizekList of ContributorsIndex of NamesIndex of Topics

The very thoroughness and high quality of each entry, as well as attentive editing, are what makes The Johns Hopkins Guide to Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory an essential tool for anyone looking for an at once in-depth and accessible study of some of the major concepts of literary thory today. -- Alice Braun Cercles Groden, Kreiswirth, and Szeman have compiled a desktop, ready-reference tool that is readable, informative, and complete according to the parameters that they established for the work. -- Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic Reference Reviews