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A Companion to Literary Theory
David H. Richter (Edited by), DH Richter (Author)
9781118958674, Wiley
Hardback, published 16 March 2018
496 pages
24.9 x 17.8 x 3.3 cm, 0.907 kg
Introduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century A 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. The 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.
Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgements xv Introduction 1 Part I Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry 9 1 British and American New Criticism 11 2 Chicago Formalism 24 3 Russian Formalism 36 4 Structuralism and Semiotics 48 5 Stylistics 60 6 Contemporary Narrative Theory 72 Part II The Task of Reading 85 7 The Intention Debates 87 8 Deconstruction 100 9 Reader‐Response Theory 114 10 Empathy Studies 126 11 Contemporary Proposals about Reading in the Digital Age 139 Part III Literary Locations and Cultural Studies 151 12 The Location of Literature 153 13 The Verbal and the Visual 165 14 Foucault and Poststructuralism 176 15 Cultural Studies 188 Part IV The Politics of Literature 203 16 Nothing If Not Determined: Marxian Criticism in History 205 17 The Frankfurt School and Its Successors 218 18 Althusser: Structuralist or Anti‐Structuralist? 229 19 New Historicism and Cultural Materialism 238 20 Emmanuel Levinas and Giorgio Agamben: Ethics, Aesthetics, Poetics, Politics 250 21 Postcolonial Theory 261 22 Globalization Studies 275 Part V Identities 289 23 Race/Literature/Theory 291 24 Ethnic Studies: Reading Otherwise 302 25 Anglophone Feminisms 314 26 Gender Theory: Femininities and Masculinities 325 27 Queer Theory 336 28 Disability Studies 348 29 Trauma Studies 360 Part VI Bodies and Their Minds 373 30 Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism 375 31 Lacanian Psychoanalytic Criticism 385 32 Archetypal Criticism: Jung and Frye 396 33 Cognitive Literary Criticism 408 Part VII Scientific Inflections 423 34 Evolutionary Literary Theory 425 35 Ecocriticism: The Expanding Universe 439 36 Cybernetics and Posthumanism 451 Index 463
David H. Richter
William E. Cain
David H. Richter
David Gorman
Marina Grishakova
Michael Toolan
James Phelan
Peter J. Rabinowitz
Christopher Norris
David S. Miall
Suzanne Keen
Rachel Sagner Buurma and Matthew K. Gold
John Guillory
James A. W. Heffernan
Alan D. Schrift
Paul Smith
Robert Kaufman
Jeffrey T. Nealon
Warren Montag
Neema Parvini
Thomas Carl Wall
Siraj Ahmed
Diana Brydon
James Braxton Peterson
Ron Scapp
Robyn Warhol
Margaret Galvan
Steven F. Kruger
Christopher Krentz
Michelle Balaev
Daniel T. O’Hara
Karen Coats
Glen Robert Gill
G. Gabrielle Starr
Joseph Carroll
Harold Fromm
Thomas Foster
Subject Areas: Language: reference & general [CB]
