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