Introducing Literary Theories

• Main Author: Wolfreys, Julian
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2001
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Criticism-History-20th century

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Table of Contents:

• Fredric Jameson (1934-) and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism -- Edward W. Said (1935-) -- American Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism -- Feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s: The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies -- Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism -- Feminists of Colour -- Stephen Greenblatt (1943-) and the New Historicism -- Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Theory -- Postcolonial Studies -- Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism -- African-American Studies -- Chicano/a Literature -- Film Studies -- Feminist Film Studies and Film Theory -- Ethical Criticism -- Postmodernism -- The Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate -- Whiteness Studies -- Masculinity and Cultural Studies -- Part III Criticism, Literary and Cultural Studies in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) and Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) -- John Ruskin (1819-1900) and Walter Pater (1839-1894): Aesthetics and the State -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): Aesthetics and Criticism -- The Cambridge School: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), I. A. Richards (1893-1979) and William Empson (1906-1984) -- James Joyce (1882-1941): Theories of Literature -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): Aesthetics -- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- After the 'Cambridge School': F. R. Leavis (1895-1978), Scrutiny (1932-1952) and Literary Studies in Britain -- J. L. Austin (1911-1960) and Speech-Act Theory -- Richard Hoggart (1918-), Raymond Williams (1921-1988) and the Emergence of Cultural Studies -- Raymond Williams (1921-1988) -- Stuart Hall (1932-) -- Terry Eagleton (1943-) -- Screen (1971-) -- Structuralism and the Structuralist Controversy -- The Spread of Literary Theory in Britain -- Feminism and Poststructuralism -- Cultural Studies -- Cultural Materialism -- Postcolonial Studies -- Gay/Queer and Lesbian Studies, Criticism and Theory
• Ernesto Laclau (1935-), Chantal Mouffe (1948-) and Post-Marxism -- Psychoanalysis in Literary and Cultural Studies -- Feminism, Materialism and the Debate on Postmodernism in British Universities -- British Poststructuralism since 1968 -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Index
• Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part I Critical Discourse in Europe -- René Descartes (1596-1650) and Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677): Beginnings -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) -- Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) -- Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) and Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) -- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) and Structural Linguistics -- Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) -- Phenomenology -- Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) and Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995): Epistemology in France -- Jean Paulhan (1884-1969) and/versus Francis Ponge (1899-1988) -- György Lukács (1885-1971) -- Russian Formalism, the Moscow Linguistics Circle, and Prague Structuralism: Boris Eichenbaum (1886-1959), Jan Mukarovsky (1891-1975), Victor Shklovsky (1893-1984), Yuri Tynyanov (1894-1943), Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) -- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) -- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) -- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) -- Reception Theory: Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-) and the Geneva School -- The Frankfurt School, the Marxist Tradition, Culture and Critical Thinking: Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), Jürgen Habermas (1929-) -- Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) -- Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and Maurice Blanchot (1907-) -- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) -- Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) -- The Reception of Hegel and Heidegger in France: Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968), Jean Hyppolite (1907-1968), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), Albert Camus (1913-1960) and Existentialism -- Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) -- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) and French Feminism -- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-)
• Jean Genet (1910-1986) -- Paul Ricoeur (1913-) -- Roland Barthes (1915-1980) -- French Structuralism: A. J. Greimas (1917-1992), Tzvetan Todorov (1939-) and Gérard Genette (1930-) -- Louis Althusser (1918-1990) and his Circle -- Reception Theory and Reader-Response (I): Hans-Robert Jauss (1922-1997), Wolfgang Iser (1926-) and the School of Konstanz -- Jean-François Lyotard (1925-1998) and Jean Baudrillard (1929-): The Suspicion of Metanarratives -- The Social and the Cultural: Michel de Certeau (1925-1986), Pierre Bourdieu (1930-) and Louis Marin (1931-1992) -- Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) -- Michel Foucault (1926-1984) -- Jacques Derrida (1930-) -- Luce Irigaray (1930-) -- Christian Metz (1931-1993) -- Guy Debord (1931-1994) and the Situationist International -- Umberto Eco (1932-) -- Modernities: Paul Virilio (1932-), Gianni Vattimo (1936-), Giorgio Agamben (1942-) -- Hélène Cixous (1938-) -- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-) and Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-) -- Julia Kristeva (1941-) -- Slavoj Žižek (1949-) -- Cahiers du Cinema (1951-) -- Critical Fictions: Experiments in Writing from Le Nouveau Roman to the Oulipo -- Tel Quel (1960-1982) -- Other French Feminisms: Sarah Kofman (1934-1994), Monique Wittig (1935-), Michèle Le Doeuff (1948-) -- Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism in France -- Part II Theories and Practice of Criticism in North America -- Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and Semiotics -- The New Criticism -- The Chicago School -- Northrop Frye (1912-1991) -- The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism -- Reception Theory and Reader-Response (II): Norman Holland (1927-), Stanley Fish (1938-) and David Bleich (1940-) -- The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller (1928-), Geoffrey Hartman (1929-), Harold Bloom (1929-), Paul de Man (1919-1983) -- Deconstruction in America