A Companion to Literary Theory, First Edition by Richter, David H. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry

1 British and American New Criticism

References

2 Chicago Formalism

Aristotle and the Synolon Constructional Genre The Hypothetico‐Deductive Method Textual Autonomy Instrumental Pluralism The Second Generation: Booth, Rader, Sacks The Third and Subsequent Generations References

3 Russian Formalism

Context Principles Distractions Poetry “Prose” Literary History Defamiliarization References

4 Structuralism and Semiotics

The Keplerian Turn Structuralism(s) Acknowledgements References

5 Stylistics

What is Stylistics? Why so Much Focus on Language? Who is Stylistics For? Stylistics as Grammar Selectivity Foregrounding, Patterning, and Iconic Aptness Stylistic Practice and the Return of the Reader Falsifiability and Standards of Proof Disciplinary Maturity When Does “Attention to Detail” Go too Far? References

6 Contemporary Narrative Theory

Unnatural Narratology; or Narrative Theory and the Tradition of Non‐mimetic Narrative Fictionality; or the Borders between Fiction and Non‐fiction, and Cross‐border Traffic Theory of Mind or Mind‐Reading Feminist and Queer Narrative Theories, Intersectionality, and Critique Rhetorical Theory and the Narrative Communication Model References

Part II: The Task of Reading

7 The Intention Debates

How Long Has This Been Going On?: History Someone to Watch over Me: Grounding Interpretations You Like Potato, I Like Potahto: Two Sides of the Issue I Mean to Say: Intention The Half of It Dearie Blues: Is/Ought Take a Lesson from Me: Bearing You Are You: Readers Could You Use Me?: Dealings By Strauss: Texts On and On and On: Conclusion Acknowledgments References

8 Deconstruction

I II III References

9 Reader‐Response Theory

Introduction Stylistic Mastery Neural Shakespeare: The Function Shift Martindale and Dailey (1995): Disagreement Reviewed Bortolussi and Dixon (2003): Literariness References

10 Empathy Studies

Current scholarship and debates Narrative of the Topic Suggestions for Further Research References

11 Contemporary Proposals about Reading in the Digital Age

Distant Reading and Computational Text Analysis Post‐Critical Reading Histories of Everyday Reading Deformative Reading The Contested Futures of Scholarly Reading References

Part III: Literary Locations and Cultural Studies

12 The Location of Literature

The Serial Delimitation of Literature The Location of Literature Today The Literary System and its Trivium The Literary System and the University References

13 The Verbal and the Visual

The Problematic Legacy of Lessing Reading Signs Ekphrasis: Writing about Art References

14 Foucault and Poststructuralism

Foucault and Poststructuralism The Return to Thinking Historically The Return of Thinking About the Subject The Emphasis on Difference The Return to Thinking Philosophically about Ethics References

15 Cultural Studies

References

Part IV: The Politics of Literature

16 Nothing If Not Determined: Marxian Criticism in History

References

17 The Frankfurt School and Its Successors

The Frankfurt School and Cultural Studies Conclusion References

18 Althusser

References

19 New Historicism and Cultural Materialism

References

20 Emmanuel Levinas and Giorgio Agamben

Encountering Heidegger Levinas and Literature Agamben’s Archaeology of Commandment References

21 Postcolonial Theory

The Problem of Postcolonial Theory The Anti‐Colonial Roots of Postcolonial Thought From Poststructuralism to Postcolonial Theory References

22 Globalization Studies

Introduction: What Is Globalization? A New Role for the Imagination in Social Life Globalization and Literary Studies Acknowledgements References

Part V: Identities

23 Race/Literature/Theory

References

24 Ethnic Studies

Introduction Struggles Over Literatures Reading Otherwise Conclusion References

25 Anglophone Feminisms

References

26 Gender Theory

The Interdisciplinarity of Gender Theory Masculinity Studies Transgender Studies Femininities in the 1990s, Girlhood Studies References

27 Queer Theory

Queering Gender/Sexuality Queering Sociality Critiques of Queer Theory, and Responses The Reach of Queer Theory References

28 Disability Studies

Disability as an Identity Early Literary Disability Studies and Normalcy Reading Disability Recovering Disabled Writing Going Forward: Disability and Intersectionality References

29 Trauma Studies

Starting with Freud Literary Trauma Theory: Caruth and the First Wave Pluralistic Trauma Theory: A New Model References

Part VI: Bodies and Their Minds

30 Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism

References

31 Lacanian Psychoanalytic Criticism

Methods for Reading Lacan Subject to Texts? Lacan’s Theory of Discourse References

32 Archetypal Criticism

References

33 Cognitive Literary Criticism

Reading Metaphor Narrative and Fictional Worlds Empathy and Other Minds Imagery and the Question of Immersive Reading Cognitive Poetics and Poetry Postscript: Cognitive Historicism References

Part VII: Scientific Inflections

34 Evolutionary Literary Theory

The Historical Provenance and Main Contentions of Evolutionary Literary Theory The Institutional Position of Evolutionary Literary Scholars Governing Ideas in Evolutionary Biology The Evolution of Specifically Human Characteristics The Adaptive Functions of Literature and the Other Arts Evolutionary Literary Criticism The Future References

35 Ecocriticism

Early and Middle Years Contentious Later Years Ecocriticism’s Expanding Purview References

36 Cybernetics and Posthumanism

References

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