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A companion to literary theory
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"This book gathers together three dozen original essays, all by noted scholars in their fields, and designed to introduce the general reader to the latest ideas about the literary and cultural theo...
"This book gathers together three dozen original essays, all by noted scholars in their fields, and designed to introduce the general reader to the latest ideas about the literary and cultural theory of the last half century, focusing on the ideas that are still alive today"--
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- Creator
- edited by David H. Richter
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley and Sons, Limited, 2018
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 9781118958735, 9781119406907, 9781118958933, 9781118958759, 9781118958674, 9781787856615, 1118958675, 111895873X, 1119406900, 1118958756, 1118958934, 1787856615
- OCLC
- on1000447458, on1031709002
- Machine generated contents note: Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements (awaiting) Introduction I. Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry 1. British and American New Criticism (William Cain) 2. Chicago Formalism (David Richter) 3. Russian Formalism (David Gorman) 4. Structuralism and Semiotics (Marina Grishakova) 5. Stylistics (Michael Toolan) 6. Contemporary Narrative Theory (James Phelan) II. The Task of Reading 7. The Intention Debates (Peter Rabinowitz) 8. Deconstruction (Christopher Norris) 9. Reader-Response Theory (David S. Miall) 10. Empathy Studies (Suzanne Keen) 11. Contemporary Proposals about Reading in the Digital Age (Matthew Gold and Rachel Sagner Buurma) III. Literary Locations and Cultural Studies 12. The Location of Literature (John Guillory) 13. The Verbal and the Visual (James A.W. Heffernan) 14. Foucault and Poststructuralism (Alan D. Schrift) 15. Cultural Studies (Paul Smith) IV. The Politics of Literature 16. Marxian Criticism in History (Robert Kaufman) 17. The Frankfurt School and Its Successors (Jeffrey T. Nealon) 18. Althusser: Structuralist or Anti-Structuralist (Warren Montag) 19. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (Neema Parvini) 20. Levinas and Agamben (Thomas Carl Wall) 21. Postcolonial Theory (Siraj Ahmed) 22. Globalization Studies (Diana Brydon) V. Identities 23. Race/Literature/Theory (James Braxton Peterson) 24. Ethnic Studies (Ron Scapp) 25. Anglophone Feminisms (Robyn Warhol) 26. Gender Theory: Femininities and Masculinities (Margaret Galvan) 27. Queer Theory (Steven Kruger) 28. Disability Studies (Christopher Krentz) 29. Trauma Studies (Michelle Balaev) VI. Bodies and Their Minds 30. Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism (Daniel T. O'Hara) 31. Lacanian Psychoanalytic Criticism (Karen Coats) 32. Archetypal Criticism: Jung and Frye (Glen Robert Gill) 33. Cognitive Literary Criticism (Gabrielle Starr) VII. Scientific Inflections 34. Evolutionary Literary Theory (Joseph Carroll) 35. Ecocriticism (Harold Fromm) 36. Cybernetics and Posthumanism (Thomas Foster) Index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Intro; Title Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry; 1 British and American New Criticism; References; 2 Chicago Formalism; Aristotle and the Synolon; Constructional Genre; The Hypotheticoâ#x80;#x90;Deductive Method; Textual Autonomy; Instrumental Pluralism; The Second Generation: Booth, Rader, Sacks; The Third and Subsequent Generations; References; 3 Russian Formalism; Context; Principles; Distractions; Poetry; â#x80;#x9C;Proseâ#x80;#x9D Literary History; Defamiliarization; References; 4 Structuralism and Semiotics
- The Keplerian TurnStructuralism(s); Acknowledgements; References; 5 Stylistics; What is Stylistics?; Why so Much Focus on Language?; Who is Stylistics For?; Stylistics as Grammar; Selectivity; Foregrounding, Patterning, and Iconic Aptness; Stylistic Practice and the Return of the Reader; Falsifiability and Standards of Proof; Disciplinary Maturity; When Does â#x80;#x9C;Attention to Detailâ#x80;#x9D; Go too Far?; References; 6 Contemporary Narrative Theory; Unnatural Narratology; or Narrative Theory and the Tradition of Nonâ#x80;#x90;mimetic Narrative; Fictionality
- Or the Borders between Fiction and Nonâ#x80;#x90;fiction, and Crossâ#x80;#x90;border TrafficTheory of Mind or Mindâ#x80;#x90;Reading; Feminist and Queer Narrative Theories, Intersectionality, and Critique; Rhetorical Theory and the Narrative Communication Model; References; Part II: The Task of Reading; 7 The Intention Debates; How Long Has This Been Going On?: History; Someone to Watch over Me: Grounding Interpretations; You Like Potato, I Like Potahto: Two Sides of the Issue; I Mean to Say: Intention; The Half of It Dearie Blues: Is/Ought; Take a Lesson from Me: Bearing; You Are You: Readers
- Could You Use Me?: DealingsBy Strauss: Texts; On and On and On: Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 8 Deconstruction; I; II; III; References; 9 Readerâ#x80;#x90;Response Theory; Introduction; Stylistic Mastery; Neural Shakespeare: The Function Shift; Martindale and Dailey (1995): Disagreement Reviewed; Bortolussi and Dixon (2003): Literariness; References; 10 Empathy Studies; Current scholarship and debates; Narrative of the Topic; Suggestions for Further Research; References; 11 Contemporary Proposals about Reading in the Digital Age; Distant Reading and Computational Text Analysis
- Postâ#x80;#x90;Critical ReadingHistories of Everyday Reading; Deformative Reading; The Contested Futures of Scholarly Reading; References; Part III: Literary Locations and Cultural Studies; 12 The Location of Literature; The Serial Delimitation of Literature; The Location of Literature Today; The Literary System and its Trivium; The Literary System and the University; References; 13 The Verbal and the Visual; The Problematic Legacy of Lessing; Reading Signs; Ekphrasis: Writing about Art; References; 14 Foucault and Poststructuralism; Foucault and Poststructuralism; The Return to Thinking Historically