Literary Theory and Criticism

Description

Edited by Patricia Waugh, this comprehensive guide to literary theory and criticism includes 39 specially commissioned chapters by an outstanding international team of academics. The volume is divided into four parts. Part One covers the key philosophical and aesthetic origins of literary theory, Part Two looks at the foundational movements and thinkers in the first half of the twentieth century, Part Three offers introductory overviews of the most important movements and thinkers in modern literary theory and Part Four looks at emergent trends and future directions.

About the author

Patricia Waugh, Patricia Waugh is Professor of English at the University of Durham

Table of contents

Introduction: criticism, theory, and anti-theory, Patricia Waugh
Part I Concepts of criticism and aesthetic origins
1:Mimesis: ancient Greek literary theory, Ann Nightingale
2:Expressivity: the Romantic theory of authorship, Andrew Bennett
3:Interpretation: hermeneutics, Timothy Clark
4:Value: criticism, canons, and evaluation, Patricia Waugh
Part II Criticism and critical practices in the twentieth century
5:Literature and the academy, Chris Baldick
6:I. A. Richards, Ann Banfield
7:T. S. Eliot and the idea of tradition, Gareth Reeves
8:Anthropology, myth, and modern criticism, Michael Bell
9:F. R. Leavis: criticism and culture, Gary Day
10:Marxist aesthetics, Tony Davies
11:William Empson: from verbal analysis to cultural criticism, David Fuller
12:The New Criticism, Stephen Matterson
13:The intentional fallacy, Peter Lamarque
14:Adorno and the Frankfurt School, Andrew Bowie
15:Freud and psychoanalysis, Celine Surprenant
16:The Russian debate on narrative, Gary Saul Morson
17:Bakhtin and dialogics, Lynne Pearce
18:Form, rhetoric, and intellectual history, Faiza W. Shereen
19:Literature into culture: cultural studies after Leavis, Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon
Part III Literary theory: movements and schools
20:Structuralism and narrative poetics, Susana Onega
21:Psychoanalysis after Freud, Josiane Paccaud-Huguet
22:Deconstruction, Alex Thompson
23:Feminisms, Fiona Tolann
24:Postcolonialism, Elleke Boehmer
25:Race, nation, and ethnicity, Kathleen Kerr
26:Reconstructing historicism, Paul Hamilton
27:Postmodernism, Chris Snipp-Walmsley
28:Sexualities, Tony Purvis
29:Science and criticism: beyond the culture wars, Christopher Norris
Part IV Futures and retrospects
30:Performing literary interpretation, K. M. Newton
31:The responsibilities of the writer, Sean Burke
32:Mixing memory and desire: psychoanalysis, psychology, and trauma theory, Roger Luckhurst
33:Theories of the gaze, Jeremy Hawthorn
34:Anti-canon theory, David Punter
35:Environmentalism and ecocriticism, Richard Kerridge
36:Cognitive literary criticism, Alan Richardson
37:Writing excess: the poetic principle of post-literary culture, Scott Wilson
Index