Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory

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Edited by Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, Imre Szeman
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 536

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The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and philosophical reflection on literature and culture. This mini-guide consists of entries from the Guide and newly commissioned articles that focus on contemporary topics and figures. Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across the disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory from Adorno to iek, providing an informative and reliable introduction to a vast, challenging area of inquiry. This reference is designed to answer the questions while traversing the contemporary critical and theoretical landscape, and it connects readers to additional resources.

Preface
A
Theodor W. Adorno
African American Theory and Criticism
1. Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement
2. 1977 to 1990
3. The 1990s
Giorgio Agamben
B
Alain Badiou
Mikhail Bakhtin
Étienne Balibar
Roland Barthes
Georges Bataille
Jean Baudrillard
Simone de Beauvoir
Walter Benjamin
Homi K. Bhabha
Maurice Blanchot
Pierre Bourdieu
Judith Butler
C
Michel de Certeau
Hélène Cixous
Cultural Studies
1. United Kingdom
2. United States
3. Australia
4. Canada
D
Paul de Man
Deconstruction
1. Derrida, de Man, and the Yale Critics
2. The 1980s and After
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Jacques Derrida
Discourse
1. Discourse Analysis
2. Discourse Theory
E
Terry Eagleton
Ecocriticism
Ethics
F
Frantz Fanon
Feminist Theory and Criticism
1. From Movement Critique to Discourse Analysis
2. Anglo-American Feminisms
3. Poststructuralist Feminisms
4. Materialist Feminisms
5. 1990 and After
Stanley Fish
Michel Foucault
Frankfurt School
French Theory and Criticism: 1945 and After
Sigmund Freud
Northrop Frye
G
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Gender
Paul Gilroy
Globalization
Antonio Gramsci
Stephen Greenblatt
H
Stuart Hall
Donna Haraway
Martin Heidegger
I
Luce Irigaray
J
Fredric Jameson
K
Julia Kristeva
L
Jacques Lacan
Law and Literature
Emmanuel Levinas
Linguistics and Language
Georg Lukács
Jean-François Lyotard
M
Marxist Theory and Criticism
1. Classical Marxism
2. Structuralist Marxism
3. 1989 and After
Modernist Theory and Criticism
Franco Moretti
Multiculturalism
N
Jean-Luc Nancy
Narratology
National Literature
Native Theory and Criticism
1. United States
2. Canada
New Historicism
P
Phenomenology
Postcolonial Studies
1. Origins to the 1980s
2. 1990 and After
Postmodernism
Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism
1. Traditional Freudian Criticism
2. Reconceptualizing Freud
3. The Post-Lacanians
Q
Queer Theory and Criticism
1. Gay Male
2. Lesbian
3. Queer Theory
R
Race and Ethnicity
Jacques Rancière
Reader-Response Criticism
Reception Theory
S
Edward W. Said
Ferdinand de Saussure
Science Studies
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Semiotics
Speech Acts
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Structuralism
W
Raymond Williams
Z
Slavoj Zizek
List of Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Topics

""Groden, Kreiswirth, and Szeman have compiled a desktop, ready-reference tool that is readable, informative, and complete according to the parameters that they established for the work.""

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