Literary Theory: An Anthology
This anthology of classic and cutting-edge statements in literary theory has now been updated to include recent influential texts in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Postcolonialism and International Studies\ \ \ A definitive collection of classic statements in criticism and new theoretical work from the past few decades\ All the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory are represented, from Formalism to Postcolonialism\ Enables students to familiarise...
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Literary Theory: An Anthology is a definitive collection of classic and contemporary statements in the field of literary theory and criticism. It is an invaluable resource for students who wish to familiarize themselves with the most recent developments in literary theory and with the traditions from which these new theories are derived.The anthology represents all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory. It contains classic texts from a range of movements, including Formalism, Structuralism, Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Historicism, and Feminism, and incorporates cutting-edge work by leading theoreticians in the fields of Postmodernism, Cultural Studies, Post-colonialism, Gay and Lesbian studies, and Ethnic Studies. For the second edition, the content has been updated to include the most recent influential texts, particularly in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Transnational Studies, and Cultural Studies.Library JournalRivkin (Connecticut Coll.) and Ryan (Northeastern Univ.) have designed this anthology for courses in literary theory at the graduate or at best advanced undergraduate level. Its title suggests a much more comprehensive scope than is in fact the case. There is no Aristotle here, no Sir Phillip Sidney, no Matthew Arnold. Instead, this anthology aims to include only contemporary literary theory, which means that the earliest pieces date back only to the 1920s, and many of the essays were written within the past decade. Attempting to include texts that are not commonly available, it also embraces the "heterodox and newly canonical" to provide students with a broad range of current viewpoints. The 100-plus essays and essay excerpts are grouped into ten categories, such as "Marxism," "Feminism," and "Gender Studies," with most of the introductory essays in each section written by the editors themselves. There is also a fine index. Despite a multiplicity of such anthologies, this one seems to live up to its claim that it is the most comprehensive one available. The list of essays included is available at Blackwell's website .Peter A. Dollard, Alma Coll. Lib., Mt. Pleasant, MI
Pt. 1Formalisms : Russian Formalism and New Criticism1Introduction : Formalisms32The Formal Method73Art as technique154The Formalist critics225The language of paradox286The structure of the concrete universal40Pt. 2Structuralism, linguistics, narratology1Introduction : the implied order : Structuralism532The linguistic foundation563Course in general linguistics594Morphology of the folk-tale725Two aspects of language766Mythologies817The archaeology of knowledge908The structure of narrative transmission97Pt. 3Rhetoric, phenomenology, Reader Response1Introduction : language and action1272Transcendental aesthetic1313Ideas1374Classical rhetoric1425How to do things with words1626Tacit persuasion patterns and a dictionary of rhetorical terms1777Not so much a teaching as an intangling1958Interpretive communities2179Text and system22210Distinction237Pt. 4Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-modernism1Introduction : introductory Deconstruction2572On truth and lying in an extra-moral sense2623The will to power2664Identity and difference2715Heterology2736Differance2787Of grammatology3008Semiology and grammatology3329Writing34010The newly born woman34811The postmodern condition35512Simulacra and simulations36513A thousand plateaus378Pt. 5Psychoanalysis and psychology1Introduction : strangers to ourselves : Psychoanalysis3892The interpretation of dreams3973On narcissism4154The uncanny4185Beyond the pleasure principle4316Group psychology and the analysis of the ego4387The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I4418The instance of the letter in the unconscious4479The Negro and psychopathology46210Pre-Oedipal gender configurations47011The black hole of trauma487Pt. 6Historicisms1Introduction : writing the past5052The country and the city5083Witness against the beast5334Discipline and punish5495Some call it fiction : on the politics of domesticity5676Professing the renaissance : the poetics and politics of culture5847Shakespeare and the exorcists5928Melville, Delany, and new world slavery621Pt. 7Political criticism : from Marxism to cultural materialism1Introduction : starting with zero6432Dialectics6473Grundrisse6504The German ideology6535Wage labor and capital6596Capital6657Hegemony6738Discourse in the novel6749Rabelais and his world68610Ideology and ideological state apparatuses69311For a theory of literary production70312The sublime object of ideology71213Difference and the future72514Cultural materialism, Othello, and the politics of plausibility743Pt. 8Feminism1Introduction : feminist paradigms7652The traffic in women7703The power of discourse and the subordination of the feminine7954Women on the market7995the madwoman in the attic8126The hand that rocks the cradle8267Three women's texts and a critique of imperialism8388Age, race, class, and sex : women redefining difference8549"A great way to fly" : nationalism, the state, and the varieties of Third-World feminism861Pt. 9Gender studies1Introduction : contingencies of gender8852Sexual transformations8893The history of sexuality8924Performative acts and gender constitution9005Epistemology of the closet9126A small boy and others : sexual disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth Anger, and David Lynch9227Female masculinity935Pt. 10Ethnic literary and cultural studies, critical race theory1Introduction : situating race9592The social construction of race9643Interrogating "whiteness"9754The blackness of blackness : a critique of the sign and the signifying monkey9875Playing in the dark10056Borderlands/La Frontera10177Heterogeneity, hybridity, multiplicity : marking Asian American differences10318Tradition, invention, and aesthetics in Native American literature1051Pt. 11Colonial, post-colonial, and transnational studies1Introduction : English10712History10753The revival of the imperial spirit10904Situating colonial and postcolonial studies11005Jane Austen and empire11126Decolonising the mind11267English in the Caribbean11518Signs taken for wonders11679The angel of progress : pitfalls of the term "post-colonialism"118510Casualties of freedom119711The anxious proximities of settler (post)colonial relations121012A small place1224Pt. 12Cultural studies1Introduction the politics of culture12332The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction12353The culture industry as mass deception12424The practice of everyday life12475The meaning of style12586Culture, ideology, interpellation12687Television culture12748Rap music and the poetics of identity1285
\ Library JournalRivkin Connecticut Coll. and Ryan Northeastern Univ. have designed this anthology for courses in literary theory at the graduate or at best advanced undergraduate level. Its title suggests a much more comprehensive scope than is in fact the case. There is no Aristotle here, no Sir Phillip Sidney, no Matthew Arnold. Instead, this anthology aims to include only contemporary literary theory, which means that the earliest pieces date back only to the 1920s, and many of the essays were written within the past decade. Attempting to include texts that are not commonly available, it also embraces the "heterodox and newly canonical" to provide students with a broad range of current viewpoints. The 100-plus essays and essay excerpts are grouped into ten categories, such as "Marxism," "Feminism," and "Gender Studies," with most of the introductory essays in each section written by the editors themselves. There is also a fine index. Despite a multiplicity of such anthologies, this one seems to live up to its claim that it is the most comprehensive one available. The list of essays included is available at Blackwell's website .Peter A. Dollard, Alma Coll. Lib., Mt. Pleasant, MI\ \
