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 o...

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