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A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory / Raman Selden, Peter Brooker and Peter Widdowson.

By: Selden, RamanContributor(s): Brooker, Peter | Widdowson, PeterMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Hemel Hempstead : Prentice Hall, 1997 Edition: 4th edISBN: 0134919521Subject(s): Criticism | Literature -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 801
Contents:
1. New Criticism, moral formalism and F. R. Leavis. Origins: Eliot, Richards, Empson. The American New Critics. Moral formalism: F. R. Leavis -- 2. Russian formalism. Shklovsky, Mukarovsky, Jakobson. The Bakhtin School -- 3. Reader-oriented theories. Phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer. Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser. Fish, Riffaterre, Bleich -- 4. Structuralist theories. The linguistic background. Structuralist narratology. Metaphor and metonymy. Structuralist poetics -- 5. Marxist theories. Soviet Socialist Realism. Lukacs and Brecht. The Frankfurt School: Adorno and Benjamin. 'Structuralist' Marxism: Goldmann, Althusser, Macherey. 'New Left' Marxism: Williams, Eagleton, Jameson -- 6. Feminist theories. First-wave feminist criticism: Woolf and de Beauvoir. Second-wave feminist criticism. i. Kate Millett: sexual politics. ii. Marxist feminism. iii. Elaine Showalter: gynocriticism. iv. French feminism: Kristeva, Cixous, Irigaray -- 7. Poststructuralist theories. Roland Barthes. Psychoanalytic theories. i. Jacques Lacan. ii. Julia Kristeva. iii. Deleuze and Guattari. Deconstruction. i. Jacques Derrida. ii. American deconstruction. Michel Foucault. New Historicism and cultural materialism -- 8. Postmodernist theories. Jean Baudrillard. Jean-Francois Lyotard. Postmodernism and Marxism. Postmodern feminisms -- 9. Postcolonialist theories. Edward Said. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Homi K. Bhabha. Race and ethnicity -- 10. Gay, lesbian and queer theories. Gay theory and criticism. Lesbian feminist theory and criticism. Queer theory and criticism.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Previous ed.: New York; London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. New Criticism, moral formalism and F. R. Leavis. Origins: Eliot, Richards, Empson. The American New Critics. Moral formalism: F. R. Leavis -- 2. Russian formalism. Shklovsky, Mukarovsky, Jakobson. The Bakhtin School -- 3. Reader-oriented theories. Phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer. Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser. Fish, Riffaterre, Bleich -- 4. Structuralist theories. The linguistic background. Structuralist narratology. Metaphor and metonymy. Structuralist poetics -- 5. Marxist theories. Soviet Socialist Realism. Lukacs and Brecht. The Frankfurt School: Adorno and Benjamin. 'Structuralist' Marxism: Goldmann, Althusser, Macherey. 'New Left' Marxism: Williams, Eagleton, Jameson -- 6. Feminist theories. First-wave feminist criticism: Woolf and de Beauvoir. Second-wave feminist criticism. i. Kate Millett: sexual politics. ii. Marxist feminism. iii. Elaine Showalter: gynocriticism. iv. French feminism: Kristeva, Cixous, Irigaray -- 7. Poststructuralist theories. Roland Barthes. Psychoanalytic theories. i. Jacques Lacan. ii. Julia Kristeva. iii. Deleuze and Guattari. Deconstruction. i. Jacques Derrida. ii. American deconstruction. Michel Foucault. New Historicism and cultural materialism -- 8. Postmodernist theories. Jean Baudrillard. Jean-Francois Lyotard. Postmodernism and Marxism. Postmodern feminisms -- 9. Postcolonialist theories. Edward Said. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Homi K. Bhabha. Race and ethnicity -- 10. Gay, lesbian and queer theories. Gay theory and criticism. Lesbian feminist theory and criticism. Queer theory and criticism.

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