Twentieth-Century Literary Theory: A Reader

by K.M. Newton

Overview

A thoroughly revised edition of this successful undergraduate introduction to literary theory, this text includes core pieces by leading theorists from Russian Formalists to Postmodernist and Post-colonial critics. An ideal teaching resource, with helpful introductory notes to each chapter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333677421
Publisher:	Bloombury Academic
Publication date:	09/30/1997
Series:	Reader
Edition description:	2nd ed. 1997
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- SECTION 1: RUSSIAN FORMALISM AND PRAGUE STRUCTURALISM.- Art as Technique; V.Shklovsky.- The Dominant; R.Jakobson.- The Object, Tasks and Methods of Literary History; P.N. Medvedev & M.Bakhtin.- Aesthetic Function, Norm and Value as Social Facts; J.Mukarovsky.- SECTION 2: THE NEW CRITICISM AND LEAVISIAN CRITICISM.- Poetry and Beliefs; I.A. Richards.- The Formalist Critic; C.Brooks.- Formalist Criticism: Its Principles and Limits; K.Burke.- The Relevant Context of a Literary Text; J.M.Ellis.- Literary Criticism and Philosophy; F.R.Leavis.- Object, Feeling and Judgement: F.R. Leavis; J.Casey.- SECTION 3: HERMENEUTICS.- Language as Determination of the Hermeneutic Object; H.G.Gadamer.- Three Dimensions of Hermeneutics; E.D.Hirsch,Jr.- The Appeal to the Text: What are we Appealing to?; P.D.Juhl.- The Conflict of Interpretations; P.Ricoeur.- Breaking the Circle: Hermeneutics as Disclosure; W.V.Spanos.- SECTION 4: LINGUISTICS CRITICISM.- Linguistics and Poetics; R.Jakobson.- Literature as Discourse; R.Fowler.- SECTION 5: STRUCTURALISM AND SEMIOTICS.- Definition of Poetics; T.Todorov.- Structuralism and Literary Criticism; G.Genette.- Science versus Literature; R.Barthes.- Semiotics as a Theory of Reading; J.Culler.- The Content and Structure of the Concept of 'Literature'; Y.M.Lotman.- The Problem of Interpretation; M.Peckham.- SECTION 6: POST-STRUCTURALISM.- Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences; J.Derrida.- The Death of the Author; R.Barthes.- The System and the Speaking Subject; J.Kristeva.- Lecture: 7 January 1976; M.Foucault.- The Resistance to Theory; P.de Man.- SECTION 7: PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY.- Reading and Identity: A Psychoanalytic Revolution; N.N.Holland.- Poetry, Revisionism and Repression; H.Bloom.- The Madness of Interpretation: Literature and Psychoanalysis; S.Felman.- SECTION 8: MARXIST AND NEO-MARXIST CRITICISM.- English Poets: The Decline of Capitalism; C.Caudwell.- Critical Realism and Socialist Realism; G.Lukacs.- The Author as Producer; W.Benjamin.- Towards a Science of the Text; T.Eagleton S/Z; R.Coward & J.Ellis.- On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act; F.Jameson.- SECTION 9: RECEPTION THEORY AND READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM.- Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory; H.R.Jauss.- Indeterminacy and the Reader's Response; W.Iser.- The Subjective Character of Critical Interpretation; D.Bleich.- Interpreting the Variorum; S.Fish.- SECTION 10: FEMINIST CRITICISM.- Beyond the Net: Feminist Criticism as Moral Criticism; J.Donovan.- Towards a Feminist Poetics; E.Showalter.- Sexual Politics and Critical Judgement; E.A.Messe.- Conversations; H.Cixous.- SECTION 11: CULTURAL MATERIALISM AND THE NEW HISTORICISM.- Dominant, Residual and Emergent; R.Williams.- Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture; L.A.Montrose.- Reading Dissidence; A.Sinfield.- SECTION 12: NEW PRAGMATISM.- Against Theory; S.Knapp & W.B.Michaels.- Consequences; S.Fish.- SECTION 13: POSTMODERNISM.- Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; F.Jameson.- Theorizing the Postmodern; L.Hutcheon.- SECTION 14: POST-COLONIAL CRITICISM.- Overlapping Territories, Enterwined Histories; E.Said.- The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse; H.K.Bhabha.- Index.

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'[An] excellent iece of work...The selections are judicious...an ideal text for an introductory course in theory...I shall certainly use it in my own teaching.' - Professor Stanley Fish, Department of English, Duke University

'a remarkably wide-ranging survey.' - Times Educational Supplement