The best of the many guides to literary theory that are currently available. Widdowson and Brooker chart a clear and comprehensively documented path through the full range of what is best in contemporary literary theoryindispensable for all students of literatureAn impressive achievement! John Drakakis, Stirling University This Guide is as stimulating and instructive an introduction to [literary theory] as any reader might wish for. John Kenny, Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, National University of Ireland, Galway Reflecting the continuing change and development…mehr
The best of the many guides to literary theory that are currently available. Widdowson and Brooker chart a clear and comprehensively documented path through the full range of what is best in contemporary literary theoryindispensable for all students of literatureAn impressive achievement! John Drakakis, Stirling University This Guide is as stimulating and instructive an introduction to [literary theory] as any reader might wish for. John Kenny, Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, National University of Ireland, Galway Reflecting the continuing change and development in modern literacy theory, the key features of this book includes its clarity, brevity, equal coverage of the main literary theories and useful bibliographies of further reading. Literature students will find its clearly defined sections esay to navigate; and whilst avoiding over-simplification, it makes a complex subject accessible.
Raman Selden is late Professor of English at the University of Sunderland. Peter Widdowson is Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Gloucestershire. His most recent books include: Literature (1999); The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and its Contexts 1500-2000 (2004); and Graham Swift (2005). Peter Brooker is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is the author most recently of Modernity and Metropolis. Literature, Film and Urban Formations (2002); Bohemiain London. The Social Scene of Early Modernism (2004); and A Glossary of Cultural Theory (second edition, 2002). He is co-editor of Geographies of Modernism (2005) and co-founder of 'The Modernist Magazines Project'.
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Preface to the Fifth Edition. Introduction. 1. New Criticism, moral formalism and F. R. Leavis 2. Russian formalism and the Bakhtin school 3. Reader-oriented theories 4. Structuralist theories 5. Marxist theories 6. Feminist theories 7. Poststructuralist theories 8. Postmodernist theories 9. Postcolonialist theories 10. Gay, lesbian and queer theories Conclusion: Post-Theory. Appendix 1: Recommended glossaries of theoretical and critical terms and concepts. Appendix 2: Literary, critical and cultural theory journals. Index
Contents
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Introduction
1. New Criticism, moral formalism and F. R. Leavis
Origins: Eliot, Richards, Empson
The American New Critic
Moral formalism: F. R. Leavis
2. Russian formalism and the Bakhtin School
Shklovsky, Mukarovský, Jakobson
The Bakhtin School
3. Reader-oriented theories
Phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer
Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser
Fish, Riffaterre, Bleich
4. Structuralism
The linguistic background
Structuralist narratology
Metaphor and metonymy
Structuralist poetics
5. Marxism
Soviet Socialist Realism
Lukács and Brecht
The Frankfurt School and After: Adorno and Benjamin
Preface to the Fifth Edition. Introduction. 1. New Criticism, moral formalism and F. R. Leavis 2. Russian formalism and the Bakhtin school 3. Reader-oriented theories 4. Structuralist theories 5. Marxist theories 6. Feminist theories 7. Poststructuralist theories 8. Postmodernist theories 9. Postcolonialist theories 10. Gay, lesbian and queer theories Conclusion: Post-Theory. Appendix 1: Recommended glossaries of theoretical and critical terms and concepts. Appendix 2: Literary, critical and cultural theory journals. Index
Contents
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Introduction
1. New Criticism, moral formalism and F. R. Leavis
Origins: Eliot, Richards, Empson
The American New Critic
Moral formalism: F. R. Leavis
2. Russian formalism and the Bakhtin School
Shklovsky, Mukarovský, Jakobson
The Bakhtin School
3. Reader-oriented theories
Phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer
Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser
Fish, Riffaterre, Bleich
4. Structuralism
The linguistic background
Structuralist narratology
Metaphor and metonymy
Structuralist poetics
5. Marxism
Soviet Socialist Realism
Lukács and Brecht
The Frankfurt School and After: Adorno and Benjamin
