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Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide
This helpful guide serves as an introduction to contemporary literary theory.

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory from Adorno to Žižek, providing an informative and reliable introduction to a vast, challenging area of inquiry. Materials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture.

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Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide
This helpful guide serves as an introduction to contemporary literary theory.

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory from Adorno to Žižek, providing an informative and reliable introduction to a vast, challenging area of inquiry. Materials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture.

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Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide

Overview

This helpful guide serves as an introduction to contemporary literary theory.

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory from Adorno to Žižek, providing an informative and reliable introduction to a vast, challenging area of inquiry. Materials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781421406398
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/01/2012
Pages: 536
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 4.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Michael Groden is a professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.

Martin Kreiswirth is dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, professor of English, and founding director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario.

Imre Szeman holds the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta and is the cofounder of the Petrocultures Research Group. He is the coauthor of After Oil and the coeditor of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

A Theodor W. Adorno 1

African American Theory and Criticism 6

1 Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement 6

2 1977 to 1990 13

3 The 1990s 19

Giorgio Agamben 25

B Alain Badiou 29

Mikhail Bakhtin 34

Étienne Balibar 40

Roland Barthes 44

Georges Bataille 50

Jean Baudrillard 52

Simone de Beauvoir 56

Walter Benjamin 59

Homi K. Bhabha 62

Maurice Blanchot 65

Pierre Bourdieu 68

Judith Butler 72

C Michel de Certeau 75

Hélène Cixous 78

Cultural Studies 81

1 United Kingdom 81

2 United States 84

3 Australia 90

4 Canada 93

D Paul de Man 101

Deconstruction 104

1 Derrida, de Man, and the Yale Critics 104

2 The 1980s and After 110

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari 117

Jacques Derrida 121

Discourse 128

1 Discourse Analysis 128

2 Discourse Theory 132

E Terry Eagleton 135

Ecocriticism 139

Ethics 144

F Frantz Fanon 155

Feminist Theory and Criticism 158

1 From Movement Critique to Discourse Analysis 158

2 Anglo-American Feminisms 163

3 Poststructuralist Feminisms 167

4 Materialist Feminisms 172

5 1990 and After 176

Stanley Fish 183

Michel Foucault 187

Frankfurt School 191

French Theory and Criticism: 1945 and After 198

Sigmund Freud 214

Northrop Frye 221

G Henry Louis Gates Jr. 227

Gender 231

Paul Gilroy 240

Globalization 245

Antonio Gramsci 252

Stephen Greenblatt 257

H Stuart Hall 260

Donna Haraway 264

Martin Heidegger 267

I Luce Irigaray 270

J Fredric Jameson 274

K Julia Kristeva 278

L Jacques Lacan 281

Law and Literature 288

Emmanuel Levinas 294

Linguistics and Language 297

Georg Lukács 304

Jean-François Lyotard 308

M Marxist Theory and Criticism 312

1 Classical Marxism 312

2 Structuralist Marxism 317

3 1989 and After 322

Modernist Theory and Criticism 328

Franco Moretti 332

Multiculturalism 336

N Jean-Luc Nancy 343

Narratology 348

National Literature 355

Native Theory and Criticism 361

1 United States 361

2 Canada 366

New Historicism 373

P Phenomenology 378

Postcolonial Studies 383

1 Origins to the 1980s 383

2 1990 and After 387

Postmodernism 396

Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism 401

1 Traditional Freudian Criticism 401

2 Reconceptualizing Freud 404

3 The Post-Lacanians 407

Q Queer Theory and Criticism 412

1 Gay Male 412

2 Lesbian 417

3 Queer Theory 422

R Race and Ethnicity 426

Jacques Rancière 432

Reader-Response Criticism 436

Reception Theory 442

S Edward W. Said 445

Ferdinand de Saussure 451

Science Studies 457

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 467

Semiotics 471

Speech Acts 477

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 485

Structuralism 489

W Raymond Williams 496

Z Slavoj ZiZek 501

List of Contributors 505

Index of Names 511

Index of Topics 518

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