Twentieth-Century Literature Theory

Index

Art as technique / Victor Shklovsky --
The dominant / Roman Jakobson --
The object, tasks and methods of literary history / P.N. Medvedev and M. Bakhtin --
Aesthetic function, norm and value as social fact / Jan Mukarovsky --
Poetry and beliefs / I.A. Richards --
The formalist critic / Cleanth Brooks --
Formalist criticism: its principles and limits / Kenneth Burke --
The relevant context of a literary text / John M. Ellis --
Literary criticism and philosophy / F.R. Leavis --
Object, feeling and judgement: F.R. Leavis / John Casey --
Language as determination of the hermeneutic object / Hans-Georg Gadamer --
Three dimensions of hermeneutics / E.D. Hirsch --
The appeal to the text: what are we appealing to? / P.D. Juhl --
The conflict of interpretations / Paul Ricoeur --
Breaking the circle: hermeneutics as dis-closure / William V. Spanos --
Linguistics and poetics / Roman Jakobson --
Literature as discourse / Roger Fowler --
Definition of poetics / Tzyetan Todorov --
Structuralism and literary criticism / Gerard Genette --
Science versus literature / Roland Barthes --
Semiotics as a theory of reading / Jonathan Culler --
The content and structure of the concept of literature / Yury M. Lotman --
The problem of interpretation / Morse Peckham --
Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences / Jacques Derrida --
The death of the author / Roland Barthes --
The system and the speaking subject / Julia Kristeva. Lecture: 7 January 1976 / Michel Foucault --
The resistance to theory / Paul de Man --
Reading and identity: a psychoanalytic revolution / Norman N. Holland --
Poetry, revisionism and repression / Harold Bloom --
The madness of interpretation: literature and psyhcoanalysis / Shoshana Feldman --
English poets: the decline of capitalism / Christopher Caudwell --
Critical realism and socialist realism / Georg Lukacs --
The author as producer /Walter Benjamin --
Towards a science of the text / Terry Eagleton --
S/Z / Rosalind Coward and John Ellis --
On interpretation: literature as a socially symbolic act / Fredric Jameson --
Literary history as a challenge to literary theory / Hans Robert Jauss --
Indeterminancy and the reader's response / Wolfgang Iser --
The subjective character of critical interpretation / David Bleich --
Interpreting the Variorum / Stanley Fish --
Beyond the net: feminist criticism as moral criticism / Josephine Donovan --
Towards a feminist poetics / Elaine Showalter --
Sexual politics and critical judgement / Elizabeth A. Meese --
Conversations / Helene Cixous --
Dominant, residual and emergent / Raymond Williams --
Professing the Renaissance: the poetics and politics of culture / Louis A. Montrose --
Reading dissidence / Alan Sinfield --
Against theory / Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels --
Consequences / Stanley Fish --
Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism / Fredric Jameson. Theorizing the postmodern / Linda Hutcheon --
Overlapping territories, intertwined histories / Edward W. Said --
The other question: the stereotype and colonial discourse / Homi K. Bhabha.

A thoroughly revised edition of this successful undergraduate introduction to literary theory, this text includes core pieces by leading theorists from Russian Formalists to Postmodernist and Post-colonial critics. An ideal teaching resource, with helpful introductory notes to each chapter