Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader

by Wood; Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780582784543
• ISBN10: 0582784549
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-03-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the widely anticipated new edition of Lodge and Wood's classic introduction to the leading thinkers in literary criticism. Literary criticism is taught as a core part of every English degree -- this book will be widely adopted on these courses The 'Lodge' name is hugely recognised by academic and general reader alike

Author Biography

 

David Lodge is Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature at the Universityof 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 stage plays.

 

Nigel Wood is Head of the Department of English and Drama, LoughboroughUniversityand is an expert on eighteenth-century literature and the staging of dramatic texts. He has edited a wide number of books and is also involved in occasional advisory work for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company

 

Table of Contents

Preface? and section on ?The Premisses of the Materialist Method? in The German Ideology

The Object of Study

The Premises and Technique of Interpretation? and ?Manifest and Latent Elements

The Task of the Translator

A Room of One's Own

The Second Sex, ?Myth and Reality? and ?Women's Situation and Character

The Negro and Language

Linguistics & Poetics? and ?The Metaphoric & Metonymic Poles

Study of the First Scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus

The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious

Structure, Sign & Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences

The Typology of Detective Form

From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse

Faulty Perspectives? - in current edition - and ?In Defence of the Author

What is an author?

The Reading Process: a phenomenological approach

The Death of the Author? and ?Textual Analysis: Poe's 'Valdemar'?

The Country and the City

The Ethics of Linguistics

Sorties

Crisis? Stanley Fish ?Interpreting the Variorum

The Critic as Host

Answering the Question What is Postmodernism?

Simulacra and Simulations

The Resistance to Theory

The Interpreter's Freud

Casablanca: cult movies and intertextual collage

Transposing Presuppositions on the Semiotics of Literary Translation

Reading Ourselves: Toward a feminist theory of reading

The Beast in the Closet

The Bodily Encounter with the Mother

Postmodernism and Consumer Society

The Circulation of Social Energy

The Textual Condition

New Ethnicities

Questions of Multi-culturalism

Critically Queer

Freud and the European Unconscious

The Sphere of the Intimate and the Values of Everyday Life

Place

Fantasy as a Political Category: A Lacanian Approach

The battle of the veil: woman between Orientalism and nationalism

From codex to computer; or, presence of mind

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