K. M. Newton

Twentieth-Century Literary Theory

A Reader

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL / Macmillan Education / Red Globe Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780333677421
• ISBN-10: 0333677420
• Artikelnr.: 26645642

Autorenporträt

K.M. Newton is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Dundee, UK. He is the author or editor of ten books, most recently Modern Literature and the Tragic (2009) and George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
SECTION 1: RUSSIAN FORMALISM AND PRAGUE STRUCTURALISM
Art as Technique; V.Shklovsky
The Dominant; R.Jakobson
The Object, Tasks and Methods of Literary History; P.N. Medvedev &
M.Bakhtin
Aesthetic Function, Norm and Value as Social Facts; J.Mukarovsky
SECTION 2: THE NEW CRITICISM AND LEAVISIAN CRITICISM
Poetry and Beliefs; I.A. Richards
The Formalist Critic; C.Brooks
Formalist Criticism: Its Principles and Limits; K.Burke
The Relevant Context of a Literary Text; J.M.Ellis
Literary Criticism and Philosophy; F.R.Leavis
Object, Feeling and Judgement: F.R. Leavis; J.Casey
SECTION 3: HERMENEUTICS
Language as Determination of the Hermeneutic Object; H.G.Gadamer
Three Dimensions of Hermeneutics; E.D.Hirsch,Jr
The Appeal to the Text: What are we Appealing to?; P.D.Juhl
The Conflict of Interpretations; P.Ricoeur
Breaking the Circle: Hermeneutics as Disclosure; W.V.Spanos
SECTION 4: LINGUISTICS CRITICISM
Linguistics and Poetics; R.Jakobson
Literature as Discourse; R.Fowler
SECTION 5: STRUCTURALISM AND SEMIOTICS
Definition of Poetics; T.Todorov
Structuralism and Literary Criticism; G.Genette
Science versus Literature; R.Barthes
Semiotics as a Theory of Reading; J.Culler
The Content and Structure of the Concept of 'Literature'; Y.M.Lotman
The Problem of Interpretation; M.Peckham
SECTION 6: POST-STRUCTURALISM
Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences; J.Derrida
The Death of the Author; R.Barthes
The System and the Speaking Subject; J.Kristeva
Lecture: 7 January 1976; M.Foucault
The Resistance to Theory; P.de Man
SECTION 7: PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
Reading and Identity: A Psychoanalytic Revolution; N.N.Holland
Poetry, Revisionism and Repression; H.Bloom
The Madness of Interpretation: Literature and Psychoanalysis; S.Felman
SECTION 8: MARXIST AND NEO-MARXIST CRITICISM
English Poets: The Decline of Capitalism; C.Caudwell
Critical Realism and Socialist Realism; G.Lukacs
The Author as Producer; W.Benjamin
Towards a Science of the Text; T.Eagleton S/Z; R.Coward & J.Ellis
On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act; F.Jameson
SECTION 9: RECEPTION THEORY AND READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM
Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory; H.R.Jauss
Indeterminacy and the Reader's Response; W.Iser
The Subjective Character of Critical Interpretation; D.Bleich
Interpreting the Variorum; S.Fish
SECTION 10: FEMINIST CRITICISM
Beyond the Net: Feminist Criticism as Moral Criticism; J.Donovan
Towards a Feminist Poetics; E.Showalter
Sexual Politics and Critical Judgement; E.A.Messe
Conversations; H.Cixous
SECTION 11: CULTURAL MATERIALISM AND THE NEW HISTORICISM
Dominant, Residual and Emergent; R.Williams
Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture;
L.A.Montrose
Reading Dissidence; A.Sinfield
SECTION 12: NEW PRAGMATISM
Against Theory; S.Knapp & W.B.Michaels
Consequences; S.Fish
SECTION 13: POSTMODERNISM
Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; F.Jameson
Theorizing the Postmodern; L.Hutcheon
SECTION 14: POST-COLONIAL CRITICISM
Overlapping Territories, Enterwined Histories; E.Said
The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse; H.K.Bhabha
Index.