{"product_id":"modern-literary-criticism-and-theory-9781405176668","title":"Modern Literary Criticism and Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century along with a close analysis of some of the most important and commonly taught texts from the period. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an accessible introduction to modern literary theory and criticism\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePlaces various modes of criticism within their historical and intellectual contexts\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers close readings of some of the major critical texts of the period\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the works of a diverse group of 20th-century writers, including Babbitt, Woolf, Bakhtin, Heidegger, Lacan, Derrida, Judith Butler, Zizek, Nussbaum, Negri and Hardt\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers formalism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, reader-response criticism, historicism, gender studies, cultural studies, and film theory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lucid, wide-ranging, erudite and packed with insights, Rafey Habib’s survey of modern criticism and theory has something for both the tenderfoot and the old-timer. Students everywhere will find it indispensable.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTerry Eagleton, University of Manchester\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Those who want to know where literary critics may be going should have this.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormative Moments in the History of Literary Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Backgrounds of Modern Criticism and Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Scope of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. The First Decades: From Liberal Humanism to Formalism\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Humanists, Neo-Romantics, and Precursors of Formalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Background of Modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poetics of Modernism: W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormalism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRussian Formalism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoris Eichenbaum (1886–1959).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMikhail M. Bakhtin (1895–1975).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoman Jakobson (1896–1982).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Criticism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Crowe Ransom (1888–1974).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam K. Wimsatt, Jr. (1907–1975) and Monroe C. Beardsley (1915–1985).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Socially Conscious Criticism of the Earlier Twentieth Century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eF. R. Leavis (1895–1978) and Scrutiny.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxist and Left-Wing Criticism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocialist Criticism in Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fundamental Principles of Marxism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxist Literary Criticism: A Historical Overview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Feminist Criticism: Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf (1882–1941).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimone de Beauvoir (1908–1986).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Criticism and Theory After the Second World War\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdmund Husserl (1859–1938) and Phenomenology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartin Heidegger (1889–1976) and Existentialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorges Bataille (1897–1962) and Heterology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructuralism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFerdinand de Saussure (1857–1913).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoland Barthes (1915–1980).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. The Era of Poststructuralism (I): Later Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLater Marxist Criticism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTerry Eagleton (b. 1943).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePsychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSigmund Freud (1856–1939).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacques Lacan (1901–1981).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacques Derrida (1930–2004) and Deconstruction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. The Era of Poststructuralism (II): Postmodernism, Modern Feminism, Gender Studies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostmodernism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJürgen Habermas (b. 1929).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean Baudrillard (1929–2007).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean-François Lyotard (1924–1998).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ebell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins; b. 1952).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Feminism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrench Feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBritish Feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJulia Kristeva (b. 1941).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHélène Cixous (b. 1937).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender Studies:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGayle Rubin (b. 1949).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEve Kosofsky Sedgwick (b. 1950).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJudith Butler (b. 1956).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. The Later Twentieth Century: New Historicism, Reader-Response Theory, and Postcolonial Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Historicism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichel Foucault (1926–1984).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReader-Response and Reception Theory:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWolfgang Iser (b. 1926).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStanley Fish (b. 1938).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostcolonial Criticism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdward Said (1935–2004).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGayatri Chakravorty Spivak (b. 1942).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomi K. Bhabha (b. 1949).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr. (b. 1950).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Cultural Studies and Film Theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Studies:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaymond Williams (1921–1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStuart Hall (b. 1932).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDick Hebdige (b. 1951).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Fiske.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan Bordo (b. 1947).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilm Theory:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrew Sarris (b. 1928) and Auteur Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJim Kitses: The Study of Genre.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian Metz (1931–1993): A Psychoanalytic Perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaura Mulvey (b. 1941): Feminist Film Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Contemporary Directions: The Return of the Public Intellectual.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Liberalism: Martha Nussbaum, Elaine Scarry, John Carey:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Nussbaum (b. 1947).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElaine Scarry (b. 1946).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Carey (b. 1934).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Aestheticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Theorists of Revolution: Žižek, Hardt, Negri.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlavoj Žižek (b. 1949).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichael Hardt and Antonio Negri: The Concept of Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: The Myth of Liberal Humanism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407906906455,"sku":"9781405176668","price":23.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405176668.jpg?v=1730500920","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-literary-criticism-and-theory-9781405176668","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}