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Overview
Literary Theory: An Anthology is a definitive collection of classic and contemporary statements in the field of literary theory and criticism. It is an invaluable resource for students who wish to familiarize themselves with the most recent developments in literary theory and with the traditions from which these new theories are derived. The anthology represents all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory. It contains classic texts from a range of movements, including Formalism, Structuralism, Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Historicism, and Feminism, and incorporates cutting-edge work by leading theoreticians in the fields of Postmodernism, Cultural Studies, Post-Colonialism, Gay and Lesbian studies, and Ethnic Studies. For the second edition, the content has been updated to include the most recent influential texts, particularly in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Transnational Studies, and Cultural Studies.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 2901405106961 |
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| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 01/14/2008 |
| Series: | Blackwell Anthologies Series |
| Edition description: | REV |
| Pages: | 1336 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.80(w) x 9.60(h) x 2.30(d) |
About the Author
Julie Rivkin is Professor of English at Connecticut College, USA, where she teaches on American literature, contemporary women writers, and literary theory. She is the author of False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James’s Fiction (1996). With Michael Ryan, she is the author of Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction(Wiley Blackwell, 3rd edition, 2016).Michael Ryan is Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University, USA. He is the author of several books, two novels, and co-editor of the journal Politics and Culture. With Julie Rivkin, he is the author of Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction (Wiley Blackwell, 3rd edition, 2016).
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Table of Contents
| Preface | ix | |
| Preface to the Second Edition | xii | |
| Acknowledgments | xiii | |
| Part 1 | Formalisms: Russian Formalism and New Criticism | |
| 1 | Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Formalisms | 3 |
| 2 | Boris Eichenbaum, The Formal Method | 7 |
| 3 | Viktor Shklovsky, Art as Technique | 15 |
| 4 | Cleanth Brooks, The Formalist Critics | 22 |
| 5 | Cleanth Brooks, The Language of Paradox | 28 |
| 6 | W. K. Wimsatt Jr., The Structure of the Concrete Universal | 40 |
| Part 2 | Structuralism, Linguistics, Narratology | |
| 1 | Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, The Implied Order: Structuralism | 53 |
| 2 | Jonathan Culler, The Linguistic Foundation | 56 |
| 3 | Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics | 59 |
| 4 | Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folk-tale | 72 |
| 5 | Roman Jakobson, Two Aspects of Language | 76 |
| 6 | Roland Barthes, Mythologies | 81 |
| 7 | Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge | 90 |
| 8 | Seymour Chatman, The Structure of Narrative Transmission | 97 |
| Part 3 | Rhetoric, Phenomenology, Reader Response | |
| 1 | Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Language and Action | 127 |
| 2 | Immanuel Kant, Transcendental Aesthetic | 131 |
| 3 | Edmund Husserl, Ideas | 137 |
| 4 | Edward P. J. Corbett, Classical Rhetoric | 142 |
| 5 | J. L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words | 162 |
| 6 | Richard Lanham, Tacit Persuasion Patterns and A Dictionary of Rhetorical Terms | 177 |
| 7 | Stanley Fish, Not so much a Teaching as an Intangling | 195 |
| 8 | Stanley Fish, Interpretive Communities | 217 |
| 9 | John Frow, Text and System | 222 |
| 10 | Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction | 237 |
| Part 4 | Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-modernism | |
| 1 | Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Introductory Deconstruction | 257 |
| 2 | Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lying in an Extra-moral Sense | 262 |
| 3 | Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power | 266 |
| 4 | Martin Heidegger, Identity and Difference | 271 |
| 5 | Georges Bataille, Heterology | 273 |
| 6 | Jacques Derrida, Differance | 278 |
| 7 | Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology | 300 |
| 8 | Jacques Derrida, Semiology and Grammatology | 332 |
| 9 | Barbara Johnson, Writing | 340 |
| 10 | Helene Cixous, The Newly Born Woman | 348 |
| 11 | Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition | 355 |
| 12 | Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations | 365 |
| 13 | Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus | 378 |
| Part 5 | Psychoanalysis and Psychology | |
| 1 | Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Strangers to Ourselves: Psychoanalysis | 389 |
| 2 | Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams | 397 |
| 3 | Sigmund Freud, On Narcissism | 415 |
| 4 | Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny | 418 |
| 5 | Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle | 431 |
| 6 | Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego | 438 |
| 7 | Jacques Lacan, The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I | 441 |
| 8 | Jacques Lacan, The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious | 447 |
| 9 | Frantz Fanon, The Negro and Psychopathology | 462 |
| 10 | Nancy Chodorow, Pre-Oedipal Gender Configurations | 470 |
| 11 | Bessel A. van der Kolk and Alexander C. McFarlane, The Black Hole of Trauma | 487 |
| Part 6 | Historicisms | |
| 1 | Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Writing the Past | 505 |
| 2 | Raymond Williams, The Country and the City | 508 |
| 3 | E. P. Thompson, Witness Against the Beast | 533 |
| 4 | Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish | 549 |
| 5 | Nancy Armstrong, Some Call it Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity | 567 |
| 6 | Louis Montrose, Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture | 584 |
| 7 | Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare and the Exorcists | 592 |
| 8 | Eric Sundquist, Melville, Delany, and New World Slavery | 621 |
| Part 7 | Political Criticism: From Marxism to Cultural Materialism | |
| 1 | Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Starting with Zero | 643 |
| 2 | G. W. F. Hegel, Dialectics | 647 |
| 3 | Karl Marx, Grundrisse | 650 |
| 4 | Karl Marx, The German Ideology | 653 |
| 5 | Karl Marx, Wage Labor and Capital | 659 |
| 6 | Karl Marx, Capital | 665 |
| 7 | Antonio Gramsci, Hegemony | 673 |
| 8 | Mikhail Bakhtin, Discourse in the Novel | 674 |
| 9 | Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and his World | 686 |
| 10 | Louis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses | 693 |
| 11 | Pierre Macherey, For a Theory of Literary Production | 703 |
| 12 | Slavoj Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology | 712 |
| 13 | Antonio Negri, Difference and the Future | 725 |
| 14 | Alan Sinfield, Cultural Materialism, Othello, and the Politics of Plausibility | 743 |
| Part 8 | Feminism | |
| 1 | Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Feminist Paradigms | 765 |
| 2 | Gayle Rubin, The Traffic in Women | 770 |
| 3 | Luce Irigaray, The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine | 795 |
| 4 | Luce Irigaray, Women on the Market | 799 |
| 5 | Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic | 812 |
| 6 | Coppelia Kahn, The Hand That rocks the Cradle | 826 |
| 7 | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism | 838 |
| 8 | Audre Lorde, Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference | 854 |
| 9 | Geraldine Heng, "A Great Way to Fly": Nationalism, the State, and the Varieties of Third-World Feminism | 861 |
| Part 9 | Gender Studies | |
| 1 | Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Contingencies of Gender | 885 |
| 2 | Gayle Rubin, Sexual Transformations | 889 |
| 3 | Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality | 892 |
| 4 | Judith Butler, Performative Acts and Gender Constitution | 900 |
| 5 | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet | 912 |
| 6 | Michael Moon, A Small Boy and Others: Sexual Disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth Anger, and David Lynch | 922 |
| 7 | Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity | 935 |
| Part 10 | Ethnic Literary and Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory | |
| 1 | Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Situating Race | 959 |
| 2 | Ian F. Haney Lopez, The Social Construction of Race | 964 |
| 3 | Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Interrogating "Whiteness" | 975 |
| 4 | Henry Louis Gates, The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey | 987 |
| 5 | Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark | 1005 |
| 6 | Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera | 1017 |
| 7 | Lisa Lowe, Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences | 1031 |
| 8 | Robert Dale Parker, Tradition, Invention, and Aesthetics in Native American Literature | 1051 |
| Part 11 | Colonial, Post-colonial, and Transnational Studies | |
| 1 | Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, English Without Shadows: Literature on a World Scale | 1071 |
| 2 | Dennis Walder, History | 1075 |
| 3 | C. C. Eldridge, The Revival of the Imperial Spirit | 1090 |
| 4 | Ania Loomba, Situating Colonial and Postcolonial Studies | 1100 |
| 5 | Edward Said, Jane Austen and Empire | 1112 |
| 6 | Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind | 1126 |
| 7 | Edward Kamau Brathwaite, English in the Caribbean | 1151 |
| 8 | Homi K. Bhabha, Signs Taken for Wonders | 1167 |
| 9 | Anne McClintock, The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term "Post-colonialism" | 1185 |
| 10 | Chidi Okonkwo, Casualties of Freedom | 1197 |
| 11 | Alan Lawson, The Anxious Proximities of Settler (Post)colonial Relations | 1210 |
| 12 | Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place | 1224 |
| Part 12 | Cultural Studies | |
| 1 | Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, The Politics of Culture | 1233 |
| 2 | Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | 1235 |
| 3 | Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, The Culture Industry as Mass Deception | 1242 |
| 4 | Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life | 1247 |
| 5 | Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style | 1258 |
| 6 | John Fiske, Culture, Ideology, Interpellation | 1268 |
| 7 | John Fiske, Television Culture | 1274 |
| 8 | Adam Krims, Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity | 1285 |
| Index | 1311 |
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