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9780340761915

Modern Literary Theory A Reader

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  • ISBN13:

    9780340761915

  • ISBN10:

    0340761911

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-05-04
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Summary

The new edition of this core text has been thoroughly revised and updated in light of the latest developments in the field. Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory, the text includes those essays and documents that are essential reading for students of literature andcritical theory. The original structure of the book has been improved and new material has been added, including extracts from the writings of Marx, Freud, and de Beauvoir, and a new section devoted to contemporary critical debates and issues.

Author Biography

Patricia Waugh is a professor at Durham University, UK
 
Philip Rice is a former professor at Coventry University, UK

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Preface xiii
General Introduction 1(8)
PART ONE Origins and Foundations 9(2)
Section One: Seminal Texts 11(32)
The German Ideology ([1846] 1966)
18(6)
Karl Marx
Friendrich Engels
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1916)
24(10)
Sigmund Freud
Course in General Linguistics (1915)
34(7)
Ferdinand de Saussure
The Second Sex ([1953] 1972)
41(2)
Simone de Beauvoir
Section Two: Formalism and Structuralism 43(60)
`Art as Technique' (1917)
49(3)
Viktor Shklovsky
`The Language of Paradox' (1947)
52(13)
Cleanth Brooks
Narrative Discourse (1980)
65(11)
Gerard Genette
`To Write: An Intransitive Verb?' (1966)
76(9)
Roland Barthes
`Analysis and Interpretation of the Realist Text' (1980)
85(18)
David Lodge
Section Three: Marxism 103(40)
The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (1972)
108(6)
Georg Lukacs
`On Lyric Poetry and Society' (1991)
114(8)
Theodor Adorno
Marxism and Literature (1977)
122(12)
Raymond Williams
`Literature as an Ideological Form' (1978)
134(9)
Etienne Balibar
Pierre Macherey
Section Four: Feminism 143(32)
`Towards a Feminist Poetics' (1979)
146(9)
Elaine Showalter
The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
155(8)
Sandra Gilbert
Susan Gubar
`Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism' (1980)
163(6)
Annette Kolodny
The Marxist-Feminist Collective, From `Women Writing: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Aurora Leigh' (1978)
169(6)
PART TWO After Deconstruction 175(2)
Section One: Seminal Texts 177(49)
`The Death of the Author' (1968)
185(4)
Roland Barthes
`The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience' (1949)
189(6)
Jacques Lacan
`Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences' 91966)
195(15)
Jacques Derrida
`The Order of Discourse' (1971)
210(12)
Michel Foucault
`Women's Time' (1981)
222(4)
Julia Kristeva
Section Two: Subjectivity and Gender 226(26)
`Sorties' (1975)
229(7)
Helene Cixous
`Sexual Difference' (1977)
236(3)
Luce Irigaray
Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault (1991)
239(8)
Jonathan Dollimore
Bodies That Matter (1993)
247(5)
Judith Butler
Section Three: Histories and Textuality 252(73)
`Discourse in the Novel' (1934)
256(9)
M.M. Bakhtin
`The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality' (1987)
265(7)
Hayden White
`The Resistance to Theory' (1982)
272(17)
Paul de Man
`The Text, the Poem, and the Problem of Historical Method' (1985)
289(16)
Jerome J. McGann
`Resonance and Wonder' (1990)
305(20)
Stephen Greenblatt
Section Four: Postmodernism 325(35)
`Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?' (1986)
329(9)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Simulations (1983)
338(3)
Jean Baudrillard
The Illusions of Postmodernism (1997)
341(3)
Terry Eagleton
`Postmodernism and Feminism' (1998)
344(16)
Patricia Waugh
Section Five: Postcolonialism 360(35)
`Postmodern Blackness' (1991)
362(7)
bell hooks
Culture and Imperialism (1993)
369(11)
Edward Said
`Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse' (1983)
380(7)
Homi Bhabha
The Post-Colonial Critic (1990)
387(8)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
PART THREE Critical Debates and Issues 395(2)
Section One: Canonicity and Value 397(13)
Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
400(5)
Terry Eagleton
The Western Canon (1995)
405(5)
Harold Bloom
Section Two: Criticism and Ethics 410(20)
Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (1990)
414(8)
Martha Nussbaum
Totality and Infinity (1969)
422(8)
Emmanuel Levinas
Section Three: Criticism and the Institution 430(18)
Political Correctness (1995)
434(5)
Stanley Fish
`Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies and Community' (1985)
439(9)
Edward Said
Section Four: Criticism and Knowledge 448(36)
`Texts and Lumps' (1991)
451(14)
Richard Rorty
`A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s' (1990)
465(19)
Donna Haraway
Select Bibliography 484(7)
Index 491

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