Twentieth-Century Literary Theory

K.M. Newton is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Dundee, UK. He is the author or editor of ten books, most recently Modern Literature and the Tragic (2009) and George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels (2002).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionSECTION 1: RUSSIAN FORMALISM AND PRAGUE STRUCTURALISMArt as Technique; V.ShklovskyThe Dominant; R.JakobsonThe Object, Tasks and Methods of Literary History; P.N. Medvedev & M.BakhtinAesthetic Function, Norm and Value as Social Facts; J.MukarovskySECTION 2: THE NEW CRITICISM AND LEAVISIAN CRITICISMPoetry and Beliefs; I.A. RichardsThe Formalist Critic; C.BrooksFormalist Criticism: Its Principles and Limits; K.BurkeThe Relevant Context of a Literary Text; J.M.EllisLiterary Criticism and Philosophy; F.R.LeavisObject, Feeling and Judgement: F.R. Leavis; J.CaseySECTION 3: HERMENEUTICSLanguage as Determination of the Hermeneutic Object; H.G.GadamerThree Dimensions of Hermeneutics; E.D.Hirsch,JrThe Appeal to the Text: What are we Appealing to?; P.D.JuhlThe Conflict of Interpretations; P.RicoeurBreaking the Circle: Hermeneutics as Disclosure; W.V.SpanosSECTION 4: LINGUISTICS CRITICISMLinguistics and Poetics; R.JakobsonLiterature as Discourse; R.FowlerSECTION 5: STRUCTURALISM AND SEMIOTICSDefinition of Poetics; T.TodorovStructuralism and Literary Criticism; G.GenetteScience versus Literature; R.BarthesSemiotics as a Theory of Reading; J.CullerThe Content and Structure of the Concept of 'Literature'; Y.M.LotmanThe Problem of Interpretation; M.PeckhamSECTION 6: POST-STRUCTURALISMStructure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences; J.DerridaThe Death of the Author; R.BarthesThe System and the Speaking Subject; J.KristevaLecture: 7 January 1976; M.FoucaultThe Resistance to Theory; P.de ManSECTION 7: PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORYReading and Identity: A Psychoanalytic Revolution; N.N.HollandPoetry, Revisionism and Repression; H.BloomThe Madness of Interpretation: Literature and Psychoanalysis; S.FelmanSECTION 8: MARXIST AND NEO-MARXIST CRITICISMEnglish Poets: The Decline of Capitalism; C.CaudwellCritical Realism and Socialist Realism; G.LukacsThe Author as Producer; W.BenjaminTowards a Science of the Text; T.Eagleton S/Z; R.Coward & J.EllisOn Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act; F.JamesonSECTION 9: RECEPTION THEORY AND READER-RESPONSE CRITICISMLiterary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory; H.R.JaussIndeterminacy and the Reader's Response; W.IserThe Subjective Character of Critical Interpretation; D.BleichInterpreting the Variorum; S.FishSECTION 10: FEMINIST CRITICISMBeyond the Net: Feminist Criticism as Moral Criticism; J.DonovanTowards a Feminist Poetics; E.ShowalterSexual Politics and Critical Judgement; E.A.MesseConversations; H.CixousSECTION 11: CULTURAL MATERIALISM AND THE NEW HISTORICISMDominant, Residual and Emergent; R.WilliamsProfessing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture; L.A.MontroseReading Dissidence; A.SinfieldSECTION 12: NEW PRAGMATISMAgainst Theory; S.Knapp & W.B.MichaelsConsequences; S.FishSECTION 13: POSTMODERNISMPostmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; F.JamesonTheorizing the Postmodern; L.HutcheonSECTION 14: POST-COLONIAL CRITICISMOverlapping Territories, Enterwined Histories; E.SaidThe Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse; H.K.BhabhaIndex.

'[An] excellent iece of work...The selections are judicious...an ideal text for an introductory course in theory...I shall certainly use it in my own teaching.' - Professor Stanley Fish, Department of English, Duke University 'a remarkably wide-ranging survey.' - Times Educational Supplement