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Index
Preface
1 Marxist criticism in the 1930s
The Great Depression
Socialism and communism in America
Marxist philosophy and aesthetics
A pioneer American Marxist project
An exemplary Marxist career
The Frankfurt School in America during the 1930s
Cultural politics: “ New Criticism ” versus Marxism
2 The “New Criticism”
The emergence and growth of the New Critical School
The fundamentals of a formalist poetics
Formalist protocols and “ close reading ”
Pedagogical missions
Inside and outside New Criticism: an exemplary case
New Critical Formalism defended in latter days
East European and American New Critical formalism
3 The Chicago School
Pedagogical foundations and the rise of theory
Neo-Aristotelian poetics
Critical method
The pluralist line
On the marks and influence of the Chicago School
4 The New York Intellectuals
The formation of the School
Marxist politics and beyond
The enterprise of cultural criticism
Psychoanalytical supplement
The focus on modern literature
Theories of American literature
On the institutionalization of criticism and literature
5 Myth criticism
Perspectives on myth in the modern era
Varieties of mythopoetics
Of divination, desecration, and wonder
Systematics of myth criticism
Myth criticism and the institution of literary studies
6 Phenomenological and existential criticism
Early Cold War times: from the Atomic to the Space Age
Continental philosophy in America
Phenomenological criticism Geneva style
Phenomenological criticism pluralized
From existential phenomenology to Christian existentialism
Utopian existential criticism
Continental philosophy in America: the first and second waves
7 Hermeneutics
The Vietnam era
Heidegger ’ s hermeneutical revolution
Hermeneutics new and old
Destructive hermeneutics
Hermeneutics after deconstruction
8 Reader-response criticism
The era of the reader
Reading: from phenomenology to poststructuralism
Psychoanalysis of readers
The subject of pedagogy
Reading as resistance: feminism and Marxism
German reception theory in America
The changing university
9 Literary structuralism and semiotics
Progenitors and progenies
Linguistics and semiotics of poetic discourse
Narratology: from syntax to rhetoric to discourse
The conventions and codes of reading
The discipline of semiotics
10 Deconstructive criticism
The emergence and formation of deconstructive criticism
Theories of language after structuralism
Beyond phenomenology
Double reading, misreading, misprision
Psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, deconstruction
Deconstruction, feminism, politics: the social text
Interpellating deconstructive criticism
11 Feminist criticism
Feminist criticism and the women ’ s movement
The focus on women ’ s literature
Critical method, literary theory, politics
French psychoanalytical theory: L’Écriture féminine
The institution of women ’ s studies
12 Black aesthetics
The black liberation movement during the Cold War era
The Black Aesthetic
Critical practices and theory
Black feminist criticism
Ethnic studies in the university
13 Cultural criticism from the 1960s to the 1980s
Legacies of the new left and the Movement
Assaulting the institution of literary studies
European Neo-Marxism and dialectical theory
The politics of “ theory ”
Left deconstructionist criticism
Post-Marxist cultural criticism
Cultural studies in the academy
The fragmentation of leftist criticism
14 American criticism since 1987
The case of Paul de Man
Returns to history: new historicisms and postcolonial theory
Globalization, the university of excellence, and postmodern culture
Minority identity poetics: ethnic studies and queer theory
Cultural wars, PC, and public intellectuals
Resistance to hegemony: cultural studies
The disorganization of theory
Notes
Index
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