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Literary Theory and Criticism
An Oxford Guide
Patricia Waugh
624 pages
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246x189mm
978-0-19-925836-9
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Paperback
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26 January 2006
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- Fills a large gap in the market by combining the accessibility of single-authored narratives with a much broader range of critical perspectives.
- Offers a comprehensive account of the major movements and thinkers in modern literary criticism.
- Presents modern theory and criticism as part of an ongoing historical and intellectual tradition.
- Part Four offers suggestions and evaluations of possible future directions and debates.
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.
Readership: Suitable for all undergraduates studying Literary Theory or Literary Criticism.
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Patricia Waugh, Patricia Waugh is Professor of English at the University of Durham Contributors:
Professor Andrea Nightingale, Stanford University
Professor Patricia Waugh, University of Durham
Professor Andrew Bennett, University of Bristol
Dr Timothy Clark, University of Durham
Professor Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Dr Gareth Reeves, University of Durham
Dr Gary Day, De Montford University
Professor Michael Ball, University of Warwick
Dr Celine Surprenant, University of Sussex
Dr Laura Marcus, University of Sussex
Professor Andrew Bowie, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Tony Davies, University of Birmingham
Professor Glenn Jordan, University of Cardiff
Professor Ann Banfield, University of California, Berkeley
Professor Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin
Professor David Fuller, University of Durham
Professor Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University
Professor Peter Lamarque, University of York
Professor Faiza Shereen, University of Dayton
Professor Lynne Pearce, University of Lancaster
Professor Chris Kennedy, University of Birmingham
Professor Susana Onega, University of Zaragoza
Dr Alex Thomson, University of Glasgow
Ms Fiona
Tolan, University of Durham
Tony Purvis, University of Sunderland
Professor P. W. A. Hamilton, Queen Mary College, University of London
Professor Elleke Boehmer, Nottingham Trent University
Dr Kathy Kerr, Sunderland University
Dr Josiane Paacaud-Huguet, University of Lyon
Dr Chris Snipp-Warmsley, University of Singapore
Professor Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University College
Professor Alan Richardson, Boston College
Professor Christopher Norris, Cardiff University
Professor Jeremy Hawthorn, Norway
Dr Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck College, University of London
Dr Sean Burke, University of Durham
Professor David Punter, University of Bristol
Professor Scott Wilson, University of Lancaster
Professor Ken Newton, University of Dundee
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"The quality of essays is consistently high, with outstanding contributions by Timothy Clark on hermeneutics, Chris Baldick on criticism and the academy, Chris Snipp-Walmsley on post-modernism, and Sean Burke on the responsibilities of the writer." - THES
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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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