Contemporary Literary & Cultural Theory

The Johns Hopkins Guide
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4214-0638-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 872 g

This helpful guide serves as an introduction to contemporary literary theory.

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory from Adorno to Žižek, providing an informative and reliable introduction to a vast, challenging area of inquiry. Materials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Groden, Michael

Kreiswirth, Martin

Szeman, Imre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
A
Theodor W. Adorno
African American Theory and Criticism
1. Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement
2. 1977 to 1990
3. The 1990s
Giorgio Agamben
B
Alain Badiou
Mikhail Bakhtin
Étienne Balibar
Roland Barthes
Georges Bataille
Jean Baudrillard
Simone de Beauvoir
Walter Benjamin
Homi K. Bhabha
Maurice Blanchot
Pierre Bourdieu
Judith Butler
C
Michel de Certeau
Hélène Cixous
Cultural Studies
1. United Kingdom
2. United States
3. Australia
4. Canada
D
Paul de Man
Deconstruction
1. Derrida, de Man, and the Yale Critics
2. The 1980s and After
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Jacques Derrida
Discourse
1. Discourse Analysis
2. Discourse Theory
E
Terry Eagleton
Ecocriticism
Ethics
F
Frantz Fanon
Feminist Theory and Criticism
1. From Movement Critique to Discourse Analysis
2. Anglo-American Feminisms
3. Poststructuralist Feminisms
4. Materialist Feminisms
5. 1990 and After
Stanley Fish
Michel Foucault
Frankfurt School
French Theory and Criticism: 1945 and After
Sigmund Freud
Northrop Frye
G
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Gender
Paul Gilroy
Globalization
Antonio Gramsci
Stephen Greenblatt
H
Stuart Hall
Donna Haraway
Martin Heidegger
I
Luce Irigaray
J
Fredric Jameson
K
Julia Kristeva
L
Jacques Lacan
Law and Literature
Emmanuel Levinas
Linguistics and Language
Georg Lukács
Jean-François Lyotard
M
Marxist Theory and Criticism
1. Classical Marxism
2. Structuralist Marxism
3. 1989 and After
Modernist Theory and Criticism
Franco Moretti
Multiculturalism
N
Jean-Luc Nancy
Narratology
National Literature
Native Theory and Criticism
1. United States
2. Canada
New Historicism
P
Phenomenology
Postcolonial Studies
1. Origins to the 1980s
2. 1990 and After
Postmodernism
Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism
1. Traditional Freudian Criticism
2. Reconceptualizing Freud
3. The Post-Lacanians
Q
Queer Theory and Criticism
1. Gay Male
2. Lesbian
3. Queer Theory
R
Race and Ethnicity
Jacques Rancière
Reader-Response Criticism
Reception Theory
S
Edward W. Said
Ferdinand de Saussure
Science Studies
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Semiotics
Speech Acts
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Structuralism
W
Raymond Williams
Z
Slavoj Zizek
List of Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Topics

Über Autor(innen)

Groden, Michael
Michael Groden is a professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.

Szeman, Imre
Imre Szeman is the Director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability and a professor of human geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author of On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture and Energy and Futures of the Sun: The Struggle Over Renewable Life.

Kreiswirth, Martin
Martin Kreiswirth is an emeritus professor of English and the former Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at McGill University.

Michael Groden is a distinguished university professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Martin Kreiswirth is a professor of English and associate provost, dean of graduate and postdoctoral studies at McGill University. Imre Szeman is a professor of English and film studies and Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.