The literary theory handbook /
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| Author / Creator: | Castle, Gregory, author. |
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| Imprint: | Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013. |
| Description: | xi, 425 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Blackwell Literature Handbooks Blackwell literature handbooks. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9330821 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Alphabetical Listing of Key Movements and Theories
- Introduction
- The Nature of Literary Theory
- What is Literature?
- The Practice of Theory
- How To Use the Handbook
- 1. The Rise of Literary Theory
- Early Developments in Literary Theory
- Modernism and Formalism, 1890s-1940s
- Cultural and Critical Theory, 1930s-1960s
- The Poststructuralist Turn, 1960s-1970s
- Culture, Gender, and History, 1980s-1990s
- Postmodernism and Post-Marxism, 1980s-2000s
- Posthumanism: Theory at the Fin de Siècle
- Conclusion
- 2. The Scope of Literary Theory
- 1. Form/Structure/Narrative/Genre
- Formalism and Structuralism
- New Criticism
- Chicago School Neo-Aristotelian Theory
- Narrative Theory/Narratology
- Theory of the Novel
- 2. Ideology/Philosophy/History/Aesthetics
- Marxist Theory
- Critical Theory
- Post-Marxist Theory
- New Historicism/Cultural Poetics
- Postmodernism
- 3. Language/Systems/Texts/Readers
- Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
- Reader-Response Theory
- Deconstruction
- Poststructuralism
- 4. Mind/Body/Gender/Identity
- Psychoanalysis
- Feminist Theory
- Gender Studies
- Gay and Lesbian Studies
- Trauma Studies
- 5. Culture/Ethnicities/Nations/Locations
- Cultural Studies
- African American Studies
- Ethnic and Indigenous Studies
- Chicano/a Studies
- Native and Indigenous Studies
- Asian American Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Transnationalism
- 6. People/Places/Bodies/Things
- Posthumanism
- Evolutionary Literary Theory
- Object-Oriented Ontologies
- Disability Studies
- Ecocriticism
- 3. Key Figures in Literary Theory
- Theodor Adorno (1903-69)
- Giorgio Agamben (1942- )
- Louis Althusser (1918-90)
- Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975)
- Roland Barthes (1915-80)
- Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
- Homi Bhabha (1949- )
- Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
- Lawrence Buell (1939-)
- Judith Butler (1956- )
- Hélène Cixous (1937- )
- Lennard Davis (1949- )
- Teresa de Lauretis (1939- )
- Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) and Félix Guattari (1930-92)
- Paul de Man (1919-83)
- Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
- Terry Eagleton (1943- )
- Frantz Fanon (1925-61)
- Stanley Fish (1938-)
- Michel Foucault (1926-84)
- Henry Louis Gates (1950-)
- Sandra Gilbert (1936- ) and Susan Gubar (1944- )
- Stephen Greenblatt (1943-)
- Elizabeth Grosz (1952-)
- Stuart Hall (1932-)
- Donna Haraway (1944-)
- N. Katherine Hayles (1943- )
- bell hooks (1952-)
- Luce Irigaray (1930- )
- Wolfgang Iser (1926-2007)
- Fredric Jameson (1934-)
- Julia Kristeva (1941- )
- Jacques Lacan (1901-81)
- Bruno Latour (1947-)
- Jean-François Lyotard (1924-98)
- J. Hillis Miller (1928-)
- Antonio Negri (1933-)
- Jacques Rancière (1940-)
- Edward Said (1935-2003)
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009)
- Elaine Showalter (1941-)
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942- )
- Raymond Williams (1921-88)
- Cary Wolfe (1959-)
- Slavoj Zizek (1949- )
- 4. Reading with Literary Theory
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest
- John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre; Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Samuel Beckett, Endgame
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
- Recommendations for Further Reading
- Glossary
- Index
