 Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History
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Acknowledgments.
Introduction:.
Formative Moments in the History of Literary Criticism.
Historical Backgrounds of Modern Criticism and Theory.
The Scope of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism.
1. The First Decades: From Liberal Humanism to Formalism.
The New Humanists, Neo-Romantics, and Precursors of Formalism.
The Background of Modernism.
The Poetics of Modernism: W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot.
Formalism:.
Russian Formalism:.
Boris Eichenbaum (1886-1959).
Mikhail M. Bakhtin (1895-1975).
Roman Jakobson (1896-1982).
The New Criticism:.
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974).
William K. Wimsatt, Jr. (1907-1975) and Monroe C. Beardsley (1915-1985).
2. Socially Conscious Criticism of the Earlier Twentieth Century.
F. R. Leavis (1895-1978) and Scrutiny.
Marxist and Left-Wing Criticism:.
Socialist Criticism in Britain.
The Fundamental Principles of Marxism.
Marxist Literary Criticism: A Historical Overview.
Early Feminist Criticism: Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir:.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986).
3. Criticism and Theory After the Second World War.
Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and Phenomenology.
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) and Existentialism.
Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and Heterology.
Structuralism:.
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913).
Roland Barthes (1915-1980).
4. The Era of Poststructuralism (I): Later Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction.
Later Marxist Criticism:.
Terry Eagleton (b. 1943).
Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan:.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).
Jacques Lacan (1901-1981).
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Deconstruction.
5. The Era of Poststructuralism (II): Postmodernism, Modern Feminism, Gender Studies.
Postmodernism:.
Jurgen Habermas (b. 1929).
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007).
Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998).
bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins; b. 1952).
Modern Feminism:.
French Feminism.
American Feminism.
British Feminism.
Julia Kristeva (b. 1941).
Helene Cixous (b. 1937).
Gender Studies:.
Gayle Rubin (b. 1949).
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (b. 1950).
Judith Butler (b. 1956).
6. The Later Twentieth Century: New Historicism, Reader-Response Theory, and Postcolonial Criticism.
New Historicism:.
Michel Foucault (1926-1984).
Reader-Response and Reception Theory:.
Wolfgang Iser (b. 1926).
Stanley Fish (b. 1938).
Postcolonial Criticism:.
Edward Said (1935-2004).
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (b. 1942).
Homi K. Bhabha (b. 1949).
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (b. 1950).
7. Cultural Studies and Film Theory.
Cultural Studies:.
Raymond Williams (1921-1988).
Stuart Hall (b. 1932).
Dick Hebdige (b. 1951).
John Fiske.
Susan Bordo (b. 1947).
Film Theory:.
Andrew Sarris (b. 1928) and Auteur Theory.
Jim Kitses: The Study of Genre.
Christian Metz (1931-1993): A Psychoanalytic Perspective.
Laura Mulvey (b. 1941): Feminist Film Theory.
8. Contemporary Directions: The Return of the Public Intellectual.
The New Liberalism: Martha Nussbaum, Elaine Scarry, John Carey:.
Martha Nussbaum (b. 1947).
Elaine Scarry (b. 1946).
John Carey (b. 1934).
The New Aestheticism.
The New Theorists of Revolution: Zizek, Hardt, Negri.
Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949).
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: The Concept of Empire.
Epilogue: The Myth of Liberal Humanism.
Index
Introduction:.
Formative Moments in the History of Literary Criticism.
Historical Backgrounds of Modern Criticism and Theory.
The Scope of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism.
1. The First Decades: From Liberal Humanism to Formalism.
The New Humanists, Neo-Romantics, and Precursors of Formalism.
The Background of Modernism.
The Poetics of Modernism: W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot.
Formalism:.
Russian Formalism:.
Boris Eichenbaum (1886-1959).
Mikhail M. Bakhtin (1895-1975).
Roman Jakobson (1896-1982).
The New Criticism:.
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974).
William K. Wimsatt, Jr. (1907-1975) and Monroe C. Beardsley (1915-1985).
2. Socially Conscious Criticism of the Earlier Twentieth Century.
F. R. Leavis (1895-1978) and Scrutiny.
Marxist and Left-Wing Criticism:.
Socialist Criticism in Britain.
The Fundamental Principles of Marxism.
Marxist Literary Criticism: A Historical Overview.
Early Feminist Criticism: Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir:.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986).
3. Criticism and Theory After the Second World War.
Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and Phenomenology.
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) and Existentialism.
Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and Heterology.
Structuralism:.
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913).
Roland Barthes (1915-1980).
4. The Era of Poststructuralism (I): Later Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction.
Later Marxist Criticism:.
Terry Eagleton (b. 1943).
Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan:.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).
Jacques Lacan (1901-1981).
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Deconstruction.
5. The Era of Poststructuralism (II): Postmodernism, Modern Feminism, Gender Studies.
Postmodernism:.
Jurgen Habermas (b. 1929).
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007).
Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998).
bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins; b. 1952).
Modern Feminism:.
French Feminism.
American Feminism.
British Feminism.
Julia Kristeva (b. 1941).
Helene Cixous (b. 1937).
Gender Studies:.
Gayle Rubin (b. 1949).
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (b. 1950).
Judith Butler (b. 1956).
6. The Later Twentieth Century: New Historicism, Reader-Response Theory, and Postcolonial Criticism.
New Historicism:.
Michel Foucault (1926-1984).
Reader-Response and Reception Theory:.
Wolfgang Iser (b. 1926).
Stanley Fish (b. 1938).
Postcolonial Criticism:.
Edward Said (1935-2004).
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (b. 1942).
Homi K. Bhabha (b. 1949).
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (b. 1950).
7. Cultural Studies and Film Theory.
Cultural Studies:.
Raymond Williams (1921-1988).
Stuart Hall (b. 1932).
Dick Hebdige (b. 1951).
John Fiske.
Susan Bordo (b. 1947).
Film Theory:.
Andrew Sarris (b. 1928) and Auteur Theory.
Jim Kitses: The Study of Genre.
Christian Metz (1931-1993): A Psychoanalytic Perspective.
Laura Mulvey (b. 1941): Feminist Film Theory.
8. Contemporary Directions: The Return of the Public Intellectual.
The New Liberalism: Martha Nussbaum, Elaine Scarry, John Carey:.
Martha Nussbaum (b. 1947).
Elaine Scarry (b. 1946).
John Carey (b. 1934).
The New Aestheticism.
The New Theorists of Revolution: Zizek, Hardt, Negri.
Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949).
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: The Concept of Empire.
Epilogue: The Myth of Liberal Humanism.
Index
