| |
| |
| Acknowledgments | |
| |
| |
| Alphabetical Listing of Key Movements and Theories | |
| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| The Nature of Literary Theory | |
| |
| |
| What is Literature? | |
| |
| |
| The Practice of Theory | |
| |
| |
| How To Use the Handbook | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Rise of Literary Theory | |
| |
| |
| Early Developments in Literary Theory | |
| |
| |
| Modernism and Formalism, 1890s-1940s | |
| |
| |
| Cultural and Critical Theory, 1930s-1960s | |
| |
| |
| The Poststructuralist Turn, 1960s-1970s | |
| |
| |
| Culture, Gender, and History, 1980s-1990s | |
| |
| |
| Postmodernism and Post-Marxism, 1980s-2000s | |
| |
| |
| Posthumanism: Theory at the Fin de Si�cle | |
| |
| |
| Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Scope of Literary Theory | |
| |
| |
| |
| Form/Structure/Narrative/Genre | |
| |
| |
| Formalism and Structuralism | |
| |
| |
| New Criticism | |
| |
| |
| Chicago School Neo-Aristotelian Theory | |
| |
| |
| Narrative Theory/Narratology | |
| |
| |
| Theory of the Novel | |
| |
| |
| |
| Ideology/Philosophy/History/Aesthetics | |
| |
| |
| Marxist Theory | |
| |
| |
| Critical Theory | |
| |
| |
| Post-Marxist Theory | |
| |
| |
| New Historicism/Cultural Poetics | |
| |
| |
| Postmodernism | |
| |
| |
| |
| Language/Systems/Texts/Readers | |
| |
| |
| Phenomenology and Hermeneutics | |
| |
| |
| Reader-Response Theory | |
| |
| |
| Deconstruction | |
| |
| |
| Poststructuralism | |
| |
| |
| |
| Mind/Body/Gender/Identity | |
| |
| |
| Psychoanalysis | |
| |
| |
| Feminist Theory | |
| |
| |
| Gender Studies | |
| |
| |
| Gay and Lesbian Studies | |
| |
| |
| Trauma Studies | |
| |
| |
| |
| Culture/Ethnicities/Nations/Locations | |
| |
| |
| Cultural Studies | |
| |
| |
| African American Studies | |
| |
| |
| Ethnic and Indigenous Studies | |
| |
| |
| Chicano/a Studies | |
| |
| |
| Native and Indigenous Studies | |
| |
| |
| Asian American Studies | |
| |
| |
| Postcolonial Studies | |
| |
| |
| Transnationalism | |
| |
| |
| |
| People/Places/Bodies/Things | |
| |
| |
| Posthumanism | |
| |
| |
| Evolutionary Literary Theory | |
| |
| |
| Object-Oriented Ontologies | |
| |
| |
| Disability Studies | |
| |
| |
| Ecocriticism | |
| |
| |
| |
| Key Figures in Literary Theory | |
| |
| |
| Theodor Adorno (1903-69) | |
| |
| |
| Giorgio Agamben (1942- ) | |
| |
| |
| Louis Althusser (1918-90) | |
| |
| |
| Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) | |
| |
| |
| Roland Barthes (1915-80) | |
| |
| |
| Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) | |
| |
| |
| Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) | |
| |
| |
| Homi Bhabha (1949- ) | |
| |
| |
| Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) | |
| |
| |
| Lawrence Buell (1939-) | |
| |
| |
| Judith Butler (1956- ) | |
| |
| |
| H�l�ne Cixous (1937- ) | |
| |
| |
| Lennard Davis (1949- ) | |
| |
| |
| Teresa de Lauretis (1939- ) | |
| |
| |
| Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) and F�lix Guattari (1930-92) | |
| |
| |
| Paul de Man (1919-83) | |
| |
| |
| Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) | |
| |
| |
| Terry Eagleton (1943- ) | |
| |
| |
| Frantz Fanon (1925-61) | |
| |
| |
| Stanley Fish (1938-) | |
| |
| |
| Michel Foucault (1926-84) | |
| |
| |
| Henry Louis Gates (1950-) | |
| |
| |
| Sandra Gilbert (1936- ) and Susan Gubar (1944- ) | |
| |
| |
| Stephen Greenblatt (1943-) | |
| |
| |
| Elizabeth Grosz (1952-) | |
| |
| |
| Stuart Hall (1932-) | |
| |
| |
| Donna Haraway (1944-) | |
| |
| |
| N. Katherine Hayles (1943- ) | |
| |
| |
| bell hooks (1952-) | |
| |
| |
| Luce Irigaray (1930- ) | |
| |
| |
| Wolfgang Iser (1926-2007) | |
| |
| |
| Fredric Jameson (1934-) | |
| |
| |
| Julia Kristeva (1941- ) | |
| |
| |
| Jacques Lacan (1901-81) | |
| |
| |
| Bruno Latour (1947-) | |
| |
| |
| Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard (1924-98) | |
| |
| |
| J. Hillis Miller (1928-) | |
| |
| |
| Antonio Negri (1933-) | |
| |
| |
| Jacques Ranci�re (1940-) | |
| |
| |
| Edward Said (1935-2003) | |
| |
| |
| Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) | |
| |
| |
| Elaine Showalter (1941-) | |
| |
| |
| Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942- ) | |
| |
| |
| Raymond Williams (1921-88) | |
| |
| |
| Cary Wolfe (1959-) | |
| |
| |
| Slavoj Zizek (1949- ) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Reading with Literary Theory | |
| |
| |
| William Shakespeare, The Tempest | |
| |
| |
| John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" | |
| |
| |
| Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre; Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea | |
| |
| |
| Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart | |
| |
| |
| Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse | |
| |
| |
| Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God | |
| |
| |
| Samuel Beckett, Endgame | |
| |
| |
| Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children | |
| |
| |
| Recommendations for Further Reading | |
| |
| |
| Glossary | |
| |
| |
| Index | |