Edited by Patricia Waugh, this comprehensive guide to literary theory and criticism includes 39 specially commissioned chapters by an outstanding international team of academics. The volume is divided into four parts. Part One covers the key philosophical and aesthetic origins of literary theory,
Part Two looks at 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.
Introduction: criticism, theory, and anti-theoryPatricia Waugh:
Part I Concepts of criticism and aesthetic origins
1. Ann Nightingale: Mimesis: ancient Greek literary theory
2. Andrew Bennett: Expressivity: the Romantic theory of authorship
3. Timothy Clark:
Interpretation: hermeneutics
4. Patricia Waugh: Value: criticism, canons, and evaluation
Part II Criticism and critical practices in the twentieth century
5. Chris Baldick: Literature and the academy
6. Ann Banfield: I. A. Richards
7. Gareth Reeves: T. S. Eliot and the
idea of tradition
8. Michael Bell: Anthropology, myth, and modern criticism
9. Gary Day: F. R. Leavis: criticism and culture
10. Tony Davies: Marxist aesthetics
11. David Fuller: William Empson: from verbal analysis to cultural criticism
12. Stephen Matterson: The New
Criticism
13. Peter Lamarque: The intentional fallacy
14. Andrew Bowie: Adorno and the Frankfurt School
15. Celine Surprenant: Freud and psychoanalysis
16. Gary Saul Morson: The Russian debate on narrative
17. Lynne Pearce: Bakhtin and dialogics
18. Faiza W. Shereen: Form,
rhetoric, and intellectual history
19. Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon: Literature into culture: cultural studies after Leavis
Part III Literary theory: movements and schools
20. Susana Onega: Structuralism and narrative poetics
21. Josiane Paccaud-Huguet: Psychoanalysis after
Freud
22. Alex Thompson: Deconstruction
23. Fiona Tolann: Feminisms
24. Elleke Boehmer: Postcolonialism
25. Kathleen Kerr: Race, nation, and ethnicity
26. Paul Hamilton: Reconstructing historicism
27. Chris Snipp-Walmsley: Postmodernism
28. Tony Purvis:
Sexualities
29. Christopher Norris: Science and criticism: beyond the culture wars
Part IV Futures and retrospects
30. K. M. Newton: Performing literary interpretation
31. Sean Burke: The responsibilities of the writer
32. Roger Luckhurst: Mixing memory and desire:
psychoanalysis, psychology, and trauma theory
33. Jeremy Hawthorn: Theories of the gaze
34. David Punter: Anti-canon theory
35. Richard Kerridge: Environmentalism and ecocriticism
36. Alan Richardson: Cognitive literary criticism
37. Scott Wilson: Writing excess: the poetic
principle of post-literary culture
Index
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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, postmodernism, and most recently, The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (with David Fuller).
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