Critical Terms for Literary Study

by Lentricchia, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780226472034
• ISBN10: 0226472035
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Since its publication in 1990,Critical Terms for Literary Studyhas become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theorygiving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices.These six new chapters are "Popular Culture," "Diversity," "Imperialism/Nationalism," "Desire," "Ethics," and "Class," by John Fiske, Louis Menand, Seamus Deane, Judith Butler, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, and Daniel T. O'Hara, respectively. Each new essay adopts the approach that has won this book such widespread acclaim: each provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies the term permits.Exploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study, as the nation's most distinguished scholars put the tools of critical practice vividly to use.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	ix
Introduction	1	(10)
Thomas McLaughlin
I Literature as Writing
Representation	11	(12)
W.J.T. Mitchell
Structure	23	(16)
John Carlos Rowe
Writing	39	(11)
Barbara Johnson
Discourse	50	(16)
Paul A. Bove
Narrative	66	(14)
J. Hillis Miller
Figurative Language	80	(11)
Thomas McLaughlin
Performance	91	(14)
Henry Sayre
Author	105	(16)
Donald E. Pease
II. Interpretation
Interpretation	121	(14)
Steven Mailloux
Intention	135	(12)
Annabel Patterson
Unconscious	147	(16)
Francoise Meltzer
Determinacy/Indeterminacy	163	(14)
Gerald Graff
Value/Evaluation	177	(9)
Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Influence	186	(17)
Louis A. Renza
Rhetoric	203	(22)
Stanley Fish
III. Literature, Culture, Politics
Culture	225	(8)
Stephen Greenblatt
Canon	233	(17)
John Guillory
Literary History	250	(13)
Lee Patterson
Gender	263	(11)
Myra Jehlen
Race	274	(14)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Ethnicity	288	(18)
Werner Sollors
Ideology	306	(15)
James H. Kavanagh
Popular Culture	321	(15)
John Fiske
Diversity	336	(18)
Louis Menand
Imperialism/Nationalism	354	(15)
Seamus Deane
Desire	369	(18)
Judith Butler
Ethics	387	(19)
Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Class	406	(41)
Daniel T. O'Hara
In Place of an Afterword---Someone Reading	429	(18)
Frank Lentricchia
References	447	(18)
List of Contributors	465	(4)
Index	469