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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first.
Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Charles Sanders Peirce and Semiotics, Kenneth Womack; 2. The New Criticism, Charles Altieri; 3. The Chicago School, William Baker; 4. Northrop Frye, Imre Salusinszky; 5. The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism, Mark Currie; 6. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Norman Holland, Stanley Fish and David Bleich, Jeremy Lane; 7. The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Ortwin de Graef; 8. Deconstruction of America, William Flesch; 9. Fredric Jameson and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism, Carolyn Lesjak; 10. Edward W. Said, John Kucich; 11. American Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism, Ruth Robbins; 12. Feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s: The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies, Megan Becker-Leckrone; 13. Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism, Megan Becker-Leckrone; 14. Feminists of Color, Anne Donadey; 15. Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism, Virginia Mason Vaughan; 16. Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Theory, David Van Leer; 17. Postcolonial Studies, Malini Johar Schueller; 18. Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism, Marcel Cornis-Pope; 19. African-American Studies, Yun Hsing Wu; 20. Chicano/a Literature, Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes; 21. Film Studies, Toby Miller; 22. Feminist Film Studies and Film Theory, Julian Wolfreys; 23. Ethical Criticism, Kenneth Womack; 24. Postmodernism, Marcel Cornis-Pope; 25. The Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate, Kate Flint; 26. Whiteness Studies, Betsy Nies; 27. Masculinity and Cultural Studies, David Alderson; 28. Comics Studies, Christopher Eklund; 29. Anglophone Canadian Literary Studies, Fiona Tolan; 30. Francophone Canadian Literature, Elodie Rousselot; Contributors; Index.
