Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide / Edition 1

by Patricia Waugh

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199258369
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/16/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	620
Product dimensions:	9.66(w) x 7.36(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

Patricia Waugh has published extensively in the field of modern fiction and criticism. She is the author of The Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Backgrounds (1995) and Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature (1997). She has also edited a number of collections and anthologies of modern literary theory and postmodernism, most recently The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (with David Fuller).

Table of Contents

Part 1. Philosophical and Aesthetic Origins1. Literature and the Problem of Representation, Andrea Nightingale2. Canons and Values, Patricia Waugh3. The Romantic Author, Andrew Bennett4. Hermeneutics, Timothy ClarkPart 2. Twentieth Century Critics and Criticism5. Literature and the Academy, Chris Baldick6. T.S. Eliot and the Idea of Tradition, Gareth Reeves7. F.R. Leavis, Scrutiny and the Idea of Mass Society, Gary Day8. Literature and Myth, Michael Ball9. Freud and Psychoanalysis, Celine Surprenant10. Virginia Woolf, Laura Marcus11. Adorno and the Frankfurt School, Andrew Bowie12. Marxist Aesthetics, Tony Davies13. Cultural Studies after Leavis, Glenn Jordan14. Practical Criticism in England, Ann Banfield15. The New Criticism, Stephen Matterson16. William Empson and Ambiguity, David Fuller17. The Russian Debate on Narrative, Gary Saul Morson18. The Intentional Fallacy, Peter Lamarque19. Rhetoric, reading and intellectual history, Faiza Shereen20. Bakhtin and the ideal of a dialogue poetics, Lynne Pearce21. Linguistic Criticism, Chris KennedyPart 3. Modern Literary Theory22. Structuralism and Narratology, Susana Onega23. Deconstruction, Alex Thomson24. Feminisms, Fiona Tolan25. Sexual Identities, Tony Purvis26. Reconstructing History, P. W. A. Hamilton27. Postcolonialism, Elleke Boehmer28. Race, Nation and Ethnicity, Kathy Kerr29. Psychoanalysis, Josiane Paacaud-Huguet30. Postmodernism, Chris Snipp-WarmsleyPart 4. Future Directions31. Environmentalism and Eco-Criticism, Richard Kerridge32. Cognitive Literary Criticism, Alan Richardson33. Criticism and Science Wars, Christopher Norris34. Theories of the Gaze, Jeremy Hawthorn35. Mixing Memory and Desire, Roger Luckhurst36. Criticism and Authorial Experience, Sean Burke37. Foreign Bodies and Border-Guards, David Punter38. The Writing of Excess, Scott Wilson39. Performing Literacy Interpretation, Ken Newton