Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford GuidePatricia Waugh This volume offers a comprehensive account of modern literary criticism, presenting the field as part of an ongoing historical and intellectual tradition. Featuring thirty-nine specially commissioned chapters from an international team of esteemed contributors, it fills a large gap in the market by combining the accessibility of single-authored selections with a wide range of critical perspectives. The volume is divided into four parts. Part One covers the key philosophical and aesthetic origins of literary theory, while Part Two discusses the foundational movements and thinkers in the first half of the twentieth century. Part Three offers introductory overviews of the most important movements and thinkers in modern literary theory, and Part Four looks at emergent trends and future directions. |
Contents
criticism theory and antitheory Patricia Waugh | 1 |
Concepts of criticism and aesthetic origins | 35 |
ancient Greek literary theory Andrea Nightingale | 37 |
the Romantic theory of authorship Andrew Bennett | 48 |
hermeneutics Timothy Clark | 59 |
criticism canons and evaluation Patricia Waugh | 70 |
Criticism and critical practices in the twentieth century | 83 |
Literature and the academy Chris Baldick | 85 |
Psychoanalysis after Freud Josiane PaccaudHuguet | 280 |
Deconstruction Alex Thomson | 298 |
Feminisms Fiona Tolan | 319 |
Postcolonialism Elleke Boehmer | 340 |
Race nation and ethnicity Kathleen Kerr | 362 |
Further reading | 384 |
Reconstructing historicism Paul Hamilton | 386 |
Postmodernism Chris SnippWalmsley | 405 |
Modernism and the purification of criticism | 91 |
A Richards Ann Banfield | 96 |
T S Eliot and the idea of tradition Gareth Reeves | 107 |
Anthropology andas myth in modern criticism Michael Bell | 119 |
criticism and culture Gary Day | 130 |
Marxist aesthetics Tony Davies | 140 |
from verbal analysis to cultural criticism David Fuller | 152 |
The New Criticism Stephen Matterson | 166 |
The intentional fallacy Peter Lamarque | 177 |
Adorno and the Frankfurt School Andrew Bowie | 189 |
Freud and psychoanalysis Céline Surprenant | 199 |
The Russian debate on narrative Gary Saul Morson | 212 |
Bakhtin and the dialogic principle Lynne Pearce | 223 |
Form rhetoric and intellectual history Faiza W Shereen | 233 |
Cultural Studies after Leavis Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon | 245 |
movements and schools | 257 |
Structuralism and narrative poetics Susana Onega | 259 |
Sexualities Tony Purvis | 427 |
beyond the culture wars Christopher Norris | 451 |
Futures and retrospects | 473 |
Performing literary interpretation K M Newton | 475 |
The responsibilities of the writer Sean Burke | 486 |
psychoanalysis psychology and trauma theory Roger Luckhurst | 497 |
Theories of the gaze Jeremy Hawthorn | 508 |
the Romantic theory of authorship Andrew Bennett | 517 |
Anticanon theory David Punter | 519 |
Environmentalism and ecocriticism Richard Kerridge | 530 |
Cognitive literary criticism Alan Richardson | 544 |
the poetic principle of postliterary culture Scott Wilson | 557 |
| 569 | |
| 583 | |
| 592 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
academic Adorno aesthetic analysis approach argued argument artistic Bakhtin Barthes Cambridge canon Chicago claim cognitive concept contemporary context critique Cultural Studies debate deconstruction Derrida dialogic discourse ecocriticism Empson English essay ethical example experience F. R. Leavis feminism feminist fiction formalist Freud Gadamer gender genre hermeneutics human I. A. Richards idea identity ideological imagination intellectual intention interpretation Jacques Derrida kind knowledge Lacan language Leavis's linguistic literary criticism literary studies literary texts literary theory literature London Marxist meaning mode modern Modernist myth narrative narratology nature notion novel object philosophical Plato poem poet poetic poetry political polyphony post-structuralism postcolonial postmodernism practice principle production psychoanalysis question radical reader reading relation rhetorical Richards Roland Barthes Romantic Routledge scientific sense sexual significant social structure T. S. Eliot textual theoretical theorists thought tradition truth twentieth century understanding University Press William Empson words writing