Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide

Julian Wolfreys

Published by Edinburgh University Press 1999

Literary Theories

A Reader and Guide

Julian Wolfreys

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748672776

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About this book

Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Bringing together theoretically orientated readings by leading exponents of literary theory with lucid introductions, the book offers the student reader a foundation textbook in literary theory. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, post-structuralism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, gay studies and queer theory, and cultural studies, Literary Theories introduces the reader to the most challenging and engaging aspects of critical studies in the humanities today. Each section contains several influential texts that provide discussion of theoretical positions and striking examples of close readings of various works of literature from a number of perspectives. The introductions introduce the theory in question, discuss its main currents, give cross-references to other theories, and contextualise the readings that follow. An indispensable aid to understanding theory, Literary Theoriesis a significant introduction to theoretical approaches to literature.

Unique combination of an anthology of core texts and a thorough introductory guide Each of the 12 sections contains:

Several key texts
An accessible 5000 word introduction
Texts selected for their coverage of themes (ie questions of language, genre, the nature of reading, race and gender) and author (from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf)
Three bibliographies: an annotated bibliography introducing the reader to the arguments of influential texts in each field, a supplementary reading list and a list of works cited

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
A NOTE ON REFERENCES Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
FOREWORD Publicly Available Download PDF	x
INTRODUCTION: BORDER CROSSINGS, OR CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE TEXTUAL KIND Julian Wolfreys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART 1. STRUCTURALISM
INTRODUCTION: NEVER STANDING STILL, OR IS ROLAND BARTHES STRUCTURALISM? K. M. Newton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
1.1. FROM SCIENCE TO LITERATURE Roland Barthes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
1.2. FROM S/Z Roland Barthes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
PART 2. FEMINISM
INTRODUCTION: WILL THE REAL FEMINIST THEORY PLEASE STAND UP? Ruth Robbins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
2.1. MEDUSA'S VOICE: MALE HYSTERIA IN THE BOSTONIANS Claire Kahane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
2.2. SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER AND THE COUNTERPLOT OF LESBIAN FICTION Terry Castle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
2.3. MYSELF AND M/OTHERS: COLETTE, WILDE AND DUCHAMP Mary Lydon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
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PART 3. MARXIST LITERARY THEORIES
INTRODUCTION: THE POLITICS OF LITERATURE Moyra Haslett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
3.1. FROM TOWARDS A REVOLUTIONARY CRITICISM Terry Eagleton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
3.2. MARXISM AND LITERATURE Raymond Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
PART 4. READER-RESPONSE THEORIES
INTRODUCTION: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS READER-RESPONSE THEORY Martin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
4.1. DESCRIBING POETIC STRUCTURES: TWO APPROACHES TO BAUDELAIRE'S 'LES CHATS' Michael Riffaterre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
4.2. THE POETIC TEXT WITHIN THE CHANGE OF HORIZONS OF READING: THE EXAMPLE OF BAUDELAIRE'S 'SPLEEN II' Hans-Robert Jauss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
4.3. THE IMAGINARY Wolfgang lser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
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PART 5. PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM
INTRODUCTION: SCREENING THE OTHER Jill Barker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
5.1. DIFFERENCE Stephen Heath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
5.2. USING LACAN: READING TO THE LIGHTHOUSE James M. Mellard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
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PART 6. DECONSTRUCTION
INTRODUCTION: WHAT REMAINS UNREAD Julian Wolfreys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
6.1. LETTER TO A JAPANESE FRIEND Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
6.2. THOMAS HARDY, JACQUES DERRIDA AND THE 'DISLOCATION OF SOULS' J. Hillis Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
6.3. ON NOT READING: DERRIDA AND BECKETT Nicholas Royle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
PART 7. POSTSTRUCTURALISM
INTRODUCTION: CRITICISM AND CONCEIT Mark Currie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
7.1. SEMIOLOGY AND RHETORIC Paul de Man Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
7.2. SCORING LITERATURE Avital Ronell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	342
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
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PART 8. POSTMODERNISM
INTRODUCTION: POSTMODERNISM? NOT REPRESENTING POSTMODERNISM Leah Wain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
8.1. ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, WHAT IS THE POSTMODERN? Jean-François Lyotard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
8.2. SIMULACRA AND SIMULATIONS Jean Baudrillard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
8.3. NOSTALGIA FOR THE PRESENT Fredric Jameson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	410
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PART 9. NEW HISTORICISM
INTRODUCTION: HISTORY, POWER AND POLITICS IN THE LITERARY ARTIFACT John Brannigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
9.1. MARXISM AND THE NEW HISTORICISM Catherine Gallagher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	428
9.2. 'SHAPING FANTASIES': FIGURATIONS OF GENDER AND POWER IN ELIZABETHAN CULTURE Louis Adrian Montrose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
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PART 10. POSTCOLONIAL THEORY
INTRODUCTION: THE DIFFICULTY OF DIFFERENCE Gail Ching-Liang Low Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
10.1. OF MIMICRY AND MAN: THE AMBIVALENCE OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE Homi K. Bhabha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	474
10.2. LOAFERS AND STORY-TELLERS Gail Ching-Liang Low Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
10.3. FILM AS ETHNOGRAPHY; OR, TRANSLATION BETWEEN CULTURES IN THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD Rey Chow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	517
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PART 11. GAY STUDIES/QUEER THEORY
INTRODUCTION: WORKS ON THE WILD(E) SIDE - PERFORMING, TRANSGRESSING, QUEERING Jane Goldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	525
11.1. QUEER AND NOW Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	537
11.2. POST/MODERN: ON THE GAY SENSIBILITY, OR THE PERVERT'S REVENGE ON AUTHENTICITY - WILDE, GENET, ORTON, AND OTHERS Jonathan Dollimore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	553
11.3. CRITICALLY QUEER Judith Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	570
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PART 12. CULTURAL STUDIES
INTRODUCTION: THEORISING CULTURE, READING OURSELVES Kenneth Womack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	593
12.1. CULTURAL STUDIES AND READING J. Hillis Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	604
12.2. CITIES WITHOUT MAPS lain Chambers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	611
12.3. ART AS CULTURAL PRODUCTION Alan Sinfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	626
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	642
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	661
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	665
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 672
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: February 7, 2022
ISBN: 9780748672776