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Index
Acknowledgements Preface to the second edition Preface to the third edition Introduction About this book Approaching theory My own ‘stock-taking’ 1 Theory before ‘theory’ – liberal humanism The history of English studies Ten tenets of liberal humanism Literary theorising from Aristotle to Leavis – some key moments Liberal humanism in practice The transition to ‘theory’ Some recurrent ideas in critical theory Selected reading 2 Structuralism Structuralist chickens and liberal humanist eggs Signs of the fathers – Saussure The scope of structuralism What structuralist critics do Structuralist criticism: examples Selected reading 3 Post-structuralism and deconstruction Some theoretical differences between structuralism and post-structuralism Post-structuralism – life on a decentred planet Structuralism and post-structuralism – some practical differences What post-structuralist critics do Deconstruction: an example Selected reading 4 Postmodernism What is postmodernism? What was modernism? ‘Landmarks’ in postmodernism – Habermas, Lyotard and Baudrillard What postmodernist critics do Postmodernist criticism: an example Selected reading 5 Psychoanalytic criticism Introduction How Freudian interpretation works Freud and evidence What Freudian psychoanalytic critics do Freudian psychoanalytic criticism: examples Lacan What Lacanian critics do Lacanian criticism: an example Selected reading 6 Feminist criticism Feminism and feminist criticism Feminist criticism and the role of theory Feminist criticism and language Feminist criticism and psychoanalysis What feminist critics do Feminist criticism: an example Selected reading 7 Lesbian/gay criticism Lesbian and gay theory Lesbian feminism Queer theory What lesbian/gay critics do Lesbian/gay criticism: an example Selected reading 8 Marxist criticism Beginnings and basics of Marxism Marxist literary criticism: general ‘Leninist’ Marxist criticism ‘Engelsian’ Marxist criticism The present: the influence of Althusser What Marxist critics do Marxist criticism: an example Selected reading 9 New historicism and cultural materialism New historicism New and old historicisms – some differences New historicism and Foucault Advantages and disadvantages of new historicism What new historicists do New historicism: an example Cultural materialism How is cultural materialism different from new historicism? What cultural materialist critics do Cultural materialism: an example Selected reading 10 Postcolonial criticism Background Postcolonial reading What postcolonial critics do Postcolonial criticism: an example Selected reading 11 Stylistics Stylistics: a theory or a practice? A brief historical account: from rhetoric, to philology, to linguistics, to stylistics, to new stylistics How does stylistics differ from standard close reading? The ambitions of stylistics What stylistic critics do Stylistics: examples Note Selected reading 12 Narratology Telling stories Aristotle Vladimir Propp Gérard Genette ‘Joined-up’ narratology What narratologists do Narratology: an example Selected reading 13 Ecocriticism Ecocriticism or green studies? Culture and nature Turning criticism inside out What ecocritics do Ecocriticism: an example Selected reading 14 Literary theory – a history in ten events The Indiana University ‘Conference on Style’, 1958 The Johns Hopkins University international symposium, 1966 The publication of Deconstruction and Criticism , 1979 The MacCabe Affair, 1981 The publication of Eagleton’s Literary Theory: An Introduction, 1983 J. Hillis Miller’s MLA presidential address, 1986 The Strathclyde University ‘Linguistics of Writing’ conference, 1986 The scandal over Paul de Man’s wartime writings, 1987–88 Jean Baudrillard and ‘The Gulf War never happened’, 1991 The Sokal Affair, 1996 15 Theory after ‘Theory’ Legacies of theory Presentism Presentism in practice New aestheticism New aestheticism in practice What to read on new aestheticism Cognitive poetics Cognitive poetics in practice What to read on cognitive poetics Appendices Appendix 1 Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Oval Portrait’ Appendix 2 Dylan Thomas, ‘A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London’ Appendix 3 William Cowper, ‘The Castaway’ Where do we go from here? Further reading General guides Reference books General readers Applying critical theory: twelve early examples Against theory Index
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