Modern Criticism and Theory A Reader

by Lodge, David; Wood, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780582312876
• ISBN10: 0582312876
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-10
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

'In our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right.' (David Lodge) This new edition of David Lodge's Modern Criticism and Theory is fully revised and expanded to take account of the developments of theoretical and general interest in contemporary literary criticism since publication of the first edition in 1988. Building on the strengths of the first edition, the volume is designed to introduce the reader to the guiding concepts of present literary and cultural debate by presenting substantial extracts from the period's most seminal thinkers.

Author Biography

David Lodge is Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where he taught from 1960 until 1987, when he became a full-time writer. He is well-known as a novelist, and has also written screenplays and stageplays. He edited 2oth Century Literary Criticism (Longman, 1972) which has become a companion volume to Modern Criticism and Theory.

Nigel Wood is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at De Montfort University.

Table of Contents

(There is also a thematically arranged table of. contents in the book.)

Arranged Historically.

1. Ferdinand de Saussure — the Object of Study.

2. Walter Benjamin — The Storyteller.

3. Roman Jakobson — Linguistics and Poetics — The Metapnoric and Metonymic Poles.

4. Jacques Lacan — The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious.

5. Jacques Derrida — Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences.

6. Mikhail Bakhtin — From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse.

7. Tzvetan Todorov — The Typology of Detective Fiction.

8. Roland Barthes — The Death of the Author — Textual Analysis: Poe's 'Valdemar'.

9. Michel Foucault — What is an Author?

10. Wolfgang Iser — The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach.

11. Julia Kristeva — The Ethics of Linguistics.

12. Harold Bloom — Poetic Origins and Final Phases.

13. E. D. Hirsch Jr. — Faulty Perspectives.

14. M. H. Abrams — The Deconstructive Angel.

15. J. Hillis Miller — The Critic as Host.

16. Hélène Cixous — Sorties.

17. Edward Said — Crisis in Orientalism.

18. Stanley Fish — Interpreting the Variorum.

19. Elaine Showalter — Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness.

20. Paul de Man — The Resistance to Theory.

21. Frederic Jameson — The Politics of Theory: Ideological Positions in the Postmodern Debate.

22. Terry Eagleton — Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism.

23. Geoffrey Hartman — The Interpreter's Freud.

24. Juliet Mitchell — Femininity, Narrative and Psychoanalysis.

25. Umberto Eco — Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage.

26. Jean Baudrillard — Simulacra and Simulations .

27. Lucs Irigaray — The Bodily Encounter with the Mother.

28. Patrocinino P. Schweickart — reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist theory of Reading.

29. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick — The Beast in the Closet.

30. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak — Feminism and Critical theory.

31. Stephen Greenblatt — the Circulation of Social Energy.

32. Jerome McGann — The Textual Condition.