Modern North American Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide

Julian Wolfreys

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2006

Modern North American Criticism and Theory

A Critical Guide

Julian Wolfreys

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748626786

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Contents

About this book

Modern North American Criticism and Theory presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first.

Focusing on the growth and expansion of critical trends and methodologies, with particular essays addressing key figures in their historical and cultural contexts, the book offers a narrative of change, transformation, and the continuous quest for and affirmation of multiple cultural voices and identities. From semiotics and the New Criticism to the identity politics of whiteness studies and the cultural study of masculinity, this book provides an overview of literary and cultural study in North America as a history of questioning, debate, and exploration.

A further reading list accompanies each chapter.

Key Features:

Breadth of coverage from Northrop Frye to Fredric Jameson and from The New Criticism and the Chicago School to New Historicism, African-American Studies and Canadian Literary Studies.
Focus on the history of modern criticism.
Accessibly written.
Theoretical debates are set in full historical, cultural and philosophical contexts.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Charles Sanders Peirce and Semiotics Kenneth Womack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The New Criticism Charles Altieri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	4
3. The Chicago School William Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
4. Northrop Frye Imre Salusinszky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
5. The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism Mark Currie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
6. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Norman Holland, Stanley Fish and David Bleich Jeremy Lane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
7. The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, Paul de Man Ortwin de Graef Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
8. Deconstruction in America William Flesch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
9. Fredric Jameson and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism Carolyn Lesjak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
10. Edward W. Said John Kucich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
11. American Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism Ruth Robbins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
12. Feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s: The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies Megan Becker-Leckrone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
13. Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism Megan Becker-Leckrone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
14. Feminists of Colour Anne Donadey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
15. Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism Virginia Mason Vaughan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
16. Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Theory David Van Leer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
17. Postcolonial Studies Malini Johar Schueller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
18. Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism Marcel Cornis-Pope Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
19. African-American Studies Yun Hsing Wu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
20. Chicano/a Literature Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
21. Film Studies Toby Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
22. Feminist Film Studies and Film Theory Julian Wolfreys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
23. Ethical Criticism Kenneth Womack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
24. Postmodernism Marcel Cornis-Pope Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
25. The Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate Kate Flint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
26. Whiteness Studies Betsy Nies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
27. Masculinity and Cultural Studies David Alderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
28. Comics Studies Christopher Eklund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
29. Anglophone Canadian Literary Studies Fiona Tolan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
30. Francophone Canadian Literature Elodie Rousselot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 21, 2006
ISBN: 9780748626786