The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-069960-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 1400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 201 mm x 272 mm, Gewicht: 6464 g

What is a literary text? What does it mean to read a text? Who are "we" who read? How does the meaning of a text change in relation to the context in which it is read? What authority does an author have over the reception of a text? How does our gender, class, or ethnicity shape our understanding of texts? The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory delves into these and the many other questions that arise when we read and write, exploring with an innovative approach and an unprecedented variety of perspectives what literary theory means. Led by Editor in Chief John Frow and Associate Editors Mark Byron, Pelagia Goulimari, Sean Pryor, and Julie Rak, the Encyclopedia illustrates the problems, the concepts, and the methodologies that arise when we discuss literary criticism.

Around 180 full-length essays written by international experts discuss the theoretical categories and formal structures; the institutions that support the production, dissemination, interpretation, and valuation of literary texts; the identities of the real and textual persons who interact in the study of texts; and the systematic methodologies of literary interpretation and understanding. Ranging from ancient criticism--Greek and Latin, Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Biblical--to contemporary issues, including digital humanities, ecocriticism, queer studies, and Indigenous traditions, the Encyclopedia offers the most comprehensive analysis currently available of literary theory in all its many dimensions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Frow, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1. FORMAL CONCEPTS

- Formal Concepts: Introduction

- Sean Pryor

- - Afterlife

- Alice Bennett

- - Aisthesis

- David Vichnar; Louis Armand

- - Allegory

- Jonathan Morton

- - Apostrophe

- Denis Flannery

- - Appropriation

- Julie Sanders

- - Beauty

- Jennifer McMahon

- - Beginnings and Endings

- Eyal Segal

- - The Chapter

- Nicholas Dames

- - Character

- Julian Murphet

- - Cliché

- Tom Grimwood

- - Comedy

- Yi-hsin Hsu

- - Creolization

- Ben Etherington

- - Deixis

- Mary Galbraith

- - Description

- Joanna Stalnaker

- - Ekphrasis

- Gabriele Rippl

- - Enchantment

- Michael Saler

- - Enunciation

- Russell Smith

- - Epic

- Herbert Tucker

- - E-text

- Niels Ole Finnemann

- - Fictionality

- Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen; Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen

- - Form and Formalism

- Stephen Cohen

- - Free Indirect Discourse

- Daniel Gunn

- - Gloss

- Rachel Stenner

- - Grotesque

- Rune Graulund

- - Heteroglossia

- Ken Hirschkop

- - Historicities

- Andrew Kalaidjian

- - Intention

- Mark Vareschi

- - Intertextuality

- Graham Allen

- - Irony

- Claire Colebrook

- - Laughter

- Anca Parvulescu

- - Literary Translation

- Anthony Pym

- - Lyric Poetry and Poetics

- Daniel Tiffany

- - Medium

- David Trotter

- - Melodrama

- Monique Rooney

- - Narrative Time

- Stephanie Nelson; Barry Spence

- - Parody and Pastiche

- Leonard Diepeveen

- - Pastoral

- Katherine Little

- - Performativity

- Julie Rak

- - Poetic Cognition

- Marshall Brown

- - Poiesis

- Thomas L. Martin

- - Pornography

- April Alliston

- - Possible Worlds

- Ruth Ronen

- - Prose

- Garrett Stewart

- - Prosody

- Meredith Martin

- - Realisms

- Alison Shonkwiler

- - Reference

- Satya Mohanty

- - Remediation

- Adam Hammond

- - Repetition

- Catherine Pickstock

- - Rhetoric

- Tom Ford; Joseph Hughes

- - Rhizome

- Claire Colebrook

- - Rhythm

- Laura Marcus

- - Romance

- Cyrus Mulready

- - Satire

- Emmett Stinson

- - Sentiment

- James Chandler

- - Singularity

- Derek Attridge

- - Song

- Stephanie Burt; Jenn Lewin

- - Spectacle

- McKenzie Wark

- - Style

- Daniel Hartley

- - Sublime

- Ian Balfour

- - Surface

- Shiamin Kwa

- - Sympathy and Empathy

- Rae Greiner

- - Tekhne

- Ian James

- - Textuality

- Rossana De Angelis

- - Thing

- Woosung Kang

- - Tragedy

- Alberto Toscano

- - Voice

- David Nowell Smith

- - World

- Jen Hui Bon Hoa

- 2. IDENTITIES

- Identities: Introduction

- Julie Rak

- - Animal

- Christopher Peterson

- - Anonymity

- Robert Griffin

- - Celebrity

- Lorraine York

- - Class

- Benjamin Balthaser

- - Daemonic

- Angus Nicholls

- - Diaspora

- Smaro Kamboureli

- - Disability Studies

- Robert McRuer

- - Ethology

- Dominique Lestel

- - Genders

- Pelagia Goulimari

- - Hybridity

- David Huddart

- - Identification

- James Purdon

- - Identity Technologies

- Anna Poletti

- - Impersonation

- Laura Browder

- - Lesbian Poetics

- Judith Roof

- - Life Writing

- Craig Howes

- - Mourning and Melancholia

- Tanya Dalziell

- - Posthuman

- Daniele Rugo

- - Queer

- Octavio Gonzalez; Todd G. Nordgren

- - Race and Ethnicity

- Amritjit Singh; Aaron Babcock

- - Sexualities

- Stephanie Clare

- - Theorizing the Subject

- Sidonie Smith

- - Trans

- Quinn Eades

- - Transnational

- Paul Jay

- - Virtual Identities

- Zara Dinnen

- 3. METHODOLOGIES

- Methodologies: Introduction

- Mark Byron

- - Actor-Network Theory

- Hugh Crawford

- - Affect Studies

- Patrick Hogan

- - Arabic Literary Theory

- Lara Harb

- - Biblical Criticism

- Richard Briggs

- - Chinese Literary Theory

- Cao Shunqing

- - Classical Criticism

- Andrew Ford

- - Close Reading

- Mark Byron

- - Cognitive Poetics

- Ellen Spolsky

- - Deconstruction

- Jemma Deer

- - Digital Humanities

- Simon Burrows; Michael Falk

- - Digital Textuality

- John Lavagnino

- - Discourse Analysis

- Andrea Macrae

- - Ecocriticism

- Cheryl Lousley

- - Ethics of Reading

- Matthew Garrett

- - Feminist Theory

- Pelagia Goulimari

- - Futures for Literary Studies

- Paul Jay

- - Genealogy

- Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson; Amy Nigh

- - Geo-locations

- Peta Mitchell

- - Hermeneutics

- Georgia Warnke

- - Historical Poetics

- Sean Pryor

- - Hypertext Theory

- Astrid Ensslin

- - Indigenous Studies in the US and Canada

- Aubrey Hanson; Sam McKegney

- - Indigenous Studies: Aotearoa/New Zealand

- Tina Makereti

- - Indigenous Studies: Australia

- Peter Minter

- - Indigenous Studies: Brazil

- Tracy Devine Guzmán

- - Information and Meaning

- Wendy Wheeler

- - Interdisciplinarity

- Julie Thompson Klein

- - Literary Stylistics

- Michael Toolan

- - Literature and Science

- Michael Whitworth

- - Mathesis

- Baylee Brits

- - The Matter of Drafts

- Jani Scandura

- - Midrash

- Carol Bakhos

- - Modern Manuscripts

- Dirk van Hulle

- - Narrative Theory

- Didier Coste

- - Narratology

- Gerald Prince

- - Narratology of the Moment

- Peter Rabinowitz

- - New Materialisms

- Liedeke Plate

- - Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO)

- Graham Harman

- - Phenomenology

- Horst Ruthrof

- - Philology

- Harry Lönnroth

- - Poetics

- Jonathan Culler

- - The Postcolonial

- Mary Layoun

- - Postcolonial Theory

- Vijay Mishra

- - Poststructuralism and Its Discontents

- Paul Ardoin

- - Psychoanalytic Theory

- Marshall Alcorn

- - Queer Theory

- Lilith Acadia

- - Reception Theory

- Ika Willis

- - Sanskrit Literary Theory

- Chettiarthodi Rajendran

- - Semiotics

- Bob Hodge

- - Speculation

- Graham Harman

- - Speech Acts and Performative Utterances

- Daniel Allington

- - Textual Studies

- Mark Byron

- - Theory of the Novel

- Jesse Rosenthal

- - Trauma and Memory Studies

- Karyn Ball

- 4. INSTITUTIONS

- Institutions: Introduction

- Pelagia Goulimari

- - Anthology

- Benjamin Grant

- - Archive and Library

- Marlene Manoff

- - Authorship

- John Frow

- - Canon and Classic

- Trevor Ross

- - Censorship

- Nicole Moore

- - Codex

- Michelle Brown

- - Copyright

- Kim Treiger-Bar-Am

- - Critique

- Charlie Blake

- - Discipline

- Peter Hitchcock

- - Dispositif

- Ricky Crano

- - Everyday

- William Galperin

- - Infrastructure

- Russell Coldicutt

- - Literacy

- Lee Morrissey

- - Literary Marketplace

- Evan Brier

- - Literary Prize Culture

- Stevie Marsden

- - Love of Literature

- Deidre Lynch

- - Minor Literature

- Salah El Moncef

- - Networks

- Patrick Jagoda

- - Orality

- John D. Niles

- - Pedagogy

- Brenton Doecke; Philip Mead

- - Reading

- Stephen Watt

- - Reading in the Digital Era

- Lutz Koepnick

- - Reception in the Digital Era

- DeNel Rehberg Sedo

- - Scandal

- Tarek El-Ariss

- - Space

- Eric Prieto

- - Technology

- Eleonora Lima

- - Temporality

- Theodore Martin

- - The Institutional Turn

- Jeremy Rosen

- - Value

- Joshua Clover; Christopher Nealon

Über Autor(innen)

John Frow is Professor of English at the University of Sydney. He was formerly Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne (2004-2012), the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University (2000-2004), and Darnell Professor of English at the University of Queensland (1990-1999). He works at the boundary between literary studies and cultural studies and has published ten monographs and edited collections, including On Interpretive Conflict (2019) and Character and Person (2019). He is a member of numerous editorial boards, including New Literary History, Law, Culture and the Humanities, symploke, and Textual Practice.