Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson, Peter Brooker

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory is a classic introduction to the complex yet crucial area of literary theory. The 6th edition includes two new chapters: 'New Materialisms' and '21st Century and Future Developments'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317422815
• Artikelnr.: 47393257

Autorenporträt

Raman Selden was Professor of English at Lancaster University and Sunderland Polytechnic. He is remembered with lasting admiration for his contribution to 17^th century studies and especially for his pioneering and lucid introductions of literary theory. His warmth, commitment and energy remain an inspiration to former colleagues and students.



Peter Widdowson was Professor of English at the Universities of Middlesex, Brighton and Gloucester. He was able uniquely to combine seriousness with wit and good humour. His strong and questioning historical sense, evident in his teaching and notably in his work on Thomas Hardy and on the ramifications of contemporary theory, remains a model for younger scholars.



Peter Brooker is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. He is the author of A Glossary of Literary and Cultural Theory (Routledge, 2016) and Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics (Routledge Revivals, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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

'Structuralist' Marxism: Goldmann, Althusser, Macherey

'New Left' Marxism: Williams, Eagleton, Jameson



6. Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud



Jacques Lacan

Trauma Studies

Slavoj Zizek



7. Feminism



First-wave feminist criticism: Woolf and de Beauvoir

Second-wave feminist criticism

Kate Millett: sexual politics

Marxist feminism

Elaine Showalter: gynocriticism

French feminism: Kristeva, Cixous, Irigaray



8 Poststructuralism



Roland Barthes

Deleuze and Guattari

Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida

American deconstruction

Michel Foucault

New Historicism and Cultural Materialism



9. Postmodernism



Jean Baudrillard

Jean-François Lyotard

Postmodernism and Marxism

Postmodern feminisms



10. Postcolonialism, race and ethnicity



Edward Said

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Homi K. Bhabha

Race and ethnicity



11. Gay, lesbian and queer theories



Gay theory and criticism

Lesbian feminist theory and criticism

Queer theory and criticism



12. Post-theory

13. Ecocriticism, animal studies, thing theory

Ecocriticism



Animal Studies

Thing theory



14. World literature and digital humanities

World literature



Digital Humanities



Appendix

1: Glossaries and dictionaries of theoretical and critical terms

2: Literary, critical and cultural theory journals

Index of names, titles and topics