The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory

by Castle, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9780631232735
• ISBN10: 0631232737
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This student-friendly text introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, as well as showing them how to perform literary analysis. Designed to be used alongside primary theoretical texts as an introduction to theory or alongside literary texts as a model for performing literary analysis. Presents a series of exemplary readings of particular literary texts such as Jane Eyre, Heart of Darkness, Ulysses, To the Lighthouse and Midnight's Children. Provides a brief history of the rise of literary theory in the twentieth century, in order that students understand the historical contexts for different theories. Presents an alphabetically organized series of entries on key figures and publications, from Adorno to Žižek. Features descriptions of the major movements in literary theory, from critical theory through to postcolonial theory.

Author Biography

Gregory Castle is Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University. His previous books include Modernism and the Celtic Revival (2001), Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2001), and Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman (2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
The Rise of Literary Theory	p. 15
Timeline	p. 57
The Scope of Literary Theory	p. 63
Critical Theory	p. 65
Cultural Studies	p. 72
Deconstruction	p. 79
Ethnic Studies	p. 86
Feminist Theory	p. 94
Gender and Sexuality	p. 102
Marxist Theory	p. 108
Narrative Theory	p. 115
New Criticism	p. 122
New Historicism	p. 129
Postcolonial Studies	p. 135
Postmodernism	p. 144
Poststructuralism	p. 154
Psychoanalysis	p. 163
Reader-Response Theory	p. 174
Structuralism and Formalism	p. 181
Key Figures in Literary Theory	p. 191
Theodor Adorno	p. 193
Louis Althusser	p. 194
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bahktin	p. 196
Roland Barthes	p. 197
Jean Baudrillard	p. 199
Walter Benjamin	p. 200
Homi Bhabha	p. 202
Pierre Bourdieu	p. 203
Judith Butler	p. 204
Hazel Carby	p. 206
Helene Cixous	p. 207
Teresa de Lauretis	p. 208
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari	p. 209
Paul de Man	p. 211
Jacques Derrida	p. 213
Terry Eagleton	p. 214
Frantz Fanon	p. 216
Stanley Fish	p. 217
Michel Foucault	p. 219
Henry Louis Gates	p. 220
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar	p. 222
Stephen Greenblatt	p. 223
Stuart Hall	p. 225
Donna Haraway	p. 226
Bell hooks	p. 227
Linda Hutcheon	p. 228
Luce Irigaray	p. 230
Wolfgang Iser	p. 231
Fredric Jameson	p. 233
Julia Kristeva	p. 234
Jacques Lacan	p. 236
Jean-Francois Lyotard	p. 237
J. Hillis Miller	p. 239
Edward Said	p. 241
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick	p. 242
Elaine Showalter	p. 244
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	p. 245
Raymond Williams	p. 247
Slavoj Zizek	p. 248
Reading with Literary Theory	p. 251
The Tempest	p. 253
Ode on a Grecian Urn"	p. 256
Jane Eyre	p. 259
Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street	p. 264
Heart of Darkness	p. 267
Ulysses	p. 272
To The Lighthouse	p. 275
Their Eyes Were Watching God	p. 278
"Leda and the Swan"	p. 281
Endgame	p. 284
Midnight's Children	p. 287
Nights at the Circus	p. 290
Conclusion: Reading Literary Theory	p. 293
Recommendations for Further Study	p. 297
Glossary	p. 305
Index	p. 325
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