Modern North American Criticism and Theory : : A Critical Guide / / Julian Wolfreys.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Wolfreys, Julian,
• MitwirkendeR: Alderson, David,; Altieri, Charles,; Baker, William,; Becker-Leckrone, Megan,; Cornis-Pope, Marcel,; Currie, Mark,; Donadey, Anne,; Eklund, Christopher,; Flesch, William,; Flint, Kate,; Graef, Ortwin de,; Hsing Wu, Yun,; Kucich, John,; Lane, Jeremy,; Lesjak, Carolyn,; Luz Montes, Amelia Maria de la,; Mason Vaughan, Virginia,; Miller, Toby,; Nies, Betsy,; Robbins, Ruth,; Rousselot, Elodie,; Salusinszky, Imre,; Schueller, Malini Johar,; Tolan, Fiona,; Van Leer, David,; Wolfreys, Julian,; Womack, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

Modern North American Criticism and Theory 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. Focusing on the growth and expansion of critical trends and methodologies, with particular essays addressing key figures in their historical and cultural contexts, the book offers a narrative of change, transformation, and the continuous quest for and affirmation of multiple cultural voices and identities. From semiotics and the New Criticism to the identity politics of whiteness studies and the cultural study of masculinity, this book provides an overview of literary and cultural study in North America as a history of questioning, debate, and exploration.A further reading list accompanies each chapter.Key Features:Breadth of coverage from Northrop Frye to Fredric Jameson and from The New Criticism and the Chicago School to New Historicism, African-American Studies and Canadian Literary Studies.Focus on the history of modern criticism.Accessibly written.Theoretical debates are set in full historical, cultural and philosophical contexts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Charles Sanders Peirce and Semiotics -- 2. The New Criticism -- 3. The Chicago School -- 4. Northrop Frye -- 5. The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism -- 6. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Norman Holland, Stanley Fish and David Bleich -- 7. The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, Paul de Man -- 8. Deconstruction in America -- 9. Fredric Jameson and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism -- 10. Edward W. Said -- 11. American Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism -- 12. Feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s: The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies -- 13. Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism -- 14. Feminists of Colour -- 15. Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism -- 16. Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Theory -- 17. Postcolonial Studies -- 18. Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism -- 19. African-American Studies -- 20. Chicano/a Literature -- 21. Film Studies -- 22. Feminist Film Studies and Film Theory -- 23. Ethical Criticism -- 24. Postmodernism -- 25. The Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate -- 26. Whiteness Studies -- 27. Masculinity and Cultural Studies -- 28. Comics Studies -- 29. Anglophone Canadian Literary Studies -- 30. Francophone Canadian Literature -- Contributors -- Index