Gregory Castle

Literary Theory Handbook

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Produktbeschreibung

The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories.

A new edition of this highly successful text, which includes updated and refined chapters, and new sections on contemporary theories
Far reaching in its inclusion of a detailed history of theory and in-depth discussions of major theories and movements
Four distinct perspectives on theory--historical, thematic, biographical, practical--are carefully intertwined, so that key concepts, terms and ideas are developed in different contexts and cross-referenced, in the text and in the index.
Includes alphabetically-arranged biographies designed for quick reference, and sample readings to illustrate the practical application of theory

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14567195000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9780470671955
• ISBN-10: 0470671955
• Artikelnr.: 35454001

Autorenporträt

Gregory Castle is a professor of British and Irish literature at Arizona State University. He is author of Modernism and the Celtic Revival (2001), Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman (2006), and The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory (2007) and has edited Postcolonial Discourses (2000) and the Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, vol. 1 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). He has also published numerous essays on Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, and other Irish writers.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments x Alphabetical Listing of Key Movements and Theories xii Introduction 1 The Nature of Literary Theory 2 What is Literature? 4 The Practice of Theory 8 How To Use the Handbook 9 1 The Rise of Literary Theory 11 Early Developments in Literary Theory 12 Modernism and Formalism, 1890s
1940s 18 Cultural and Critical Theory, 1930s
1960s 24 The Poststructuralist Turn, 1960s
1970s 27 Culture, Gender, and History, 1980s
1990s 33 Postmodernism and Post
Marxism, 1980s
2000s 39 Posthumanism: Theory at the Fin de Siècle 44 Conclusion 47 2 The Scope of Literary Theory 51 1 Form/Structure/Narrative/Genre 52 Formalism and Structuralism 52 New Criticism 59 Chicago School Neo
Aristotelian Theory 63 Narrative Theory/Narratology 68 Theory of the Novel 75 2 Ideology/Philosophy/History/Aesthetics 84 Marxist Theory 84 Critical Theory 91 Post
Marxist Theory 101 New Historicism/Cultural Poetics 119 Postmodernism 125 3 Language/Systems/Texts/Readers 142 Phenomenology and Hermeneutics 142 Reader
Response Theory 153 Deconstruction 160 Poststructuralism 167 4 Mind/Body/Gender/Identity 178 Psychoanalysis 178 Feminist Theory 190 Gender Studies 198 Gay and Lesbian Studies 204 Trauma Studies 209 5 Culture/Ethnicities/Nations/Locations 218 Cultural Studies 218 African American Studies 225 Ethnic and Indigenous Studies 231 Chicano/a Studies 232 Native and Indigenous Studies 235 Asian American Studies 237 Postcolonial Studies 242 Transnationalism 254 6 People/Places/Bodies/Things 266 Posthumanism 266 Evolutionary Literary Theory 278 Object
Oriented Ontologies 283 Disability Studies 290 Ecocriticism 298 3 Key Figures in Literary Theory 313 Theodor Adorno (1903
69) 313 Giorgio Agamben (1942
) 314 Louis Althusser (1918
90) 315 Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895
1975) 316 Roland Barthes (1915
80) 317 Jean Baudrillard (1929
2007) 318 Walter Benjamin (1892
1940) 319 Homi Bhabha (1949
) 320 Pierre Bourdieu (1930
2002) 321 Lawrence Buell (1939
) 322 Judith Butler (1956
) 323 Hélène Cixous (1937
) 324 Lennard Davis (1949
) 324 Teresa de Lauretis (1939
) 325 Gilles Deleuze (1925
95) and Félix Guattari (1930
92) 326 Paul de Man (1919
83) 327 Jacques Derrida (1930
2004) 328 Terry Eagleton (1943
) 330 Frantz Fanon (1925
61) 330 Stanley Fish (1938
) 331 Michel Foucault (1926
84) 332 Henry Louis Gates (1950
) 333 Sandra Gilbert (1936
) and Susan Gubar (1944
) 334 Stephen Greenblatt (1943
) 335 Elizabeth Grosz (1952
) 336 Stuart Hall (1932
) 337 Donna Haraway (1944
) 338 N. Katherine Hayles (1943
) 339 bell hooks (1952
) 340 Luce Irigaray (1930
) 341 Wolfgang Iser (1926
2007) 342 Fredric Jameson (1934
) 343 Julia Kristeva (1941
) 344 Jacques Lacan (1901
81) 345 Bruno Latour (1947
) 346 Jean
François Lyotard (1924
98) 348 J. Hillis Miller (1928
) 349 Antonio Negri (1933
) 350 Jacques Rancière (1940
) 351 Edward Said (1935
2003) 352 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950
2009) 353 Elaine Showalter (1941
) 354 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942
) 355 Raymond Williams (1921
88) 356 Cary Wolfe (1959
) 358 Slavoj ?i?ek (1949
) 358 4 Reading with Literary Theory 361 William Shakespeare, The Tempest 362 John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" 364 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea 366 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart 370 Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse 374 Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God 376 Samuel Beckett, Endgame 378 Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children 380 Recommendations for Further Reading 383 Glossary 392 Index 412