The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory / / Stuart Sim.

A wide-ranging reference guide to the changing role of critical theory in the twenty-first centuryFeaturing an international team of specialists on the subject, The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing role of critical theory in the new century. Ta...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2016
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
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Physical Description:1 online resource (592 p.) :; 2 B/W line art
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Part I. Marxism
  • Introduction: Marxism
  • 1. Marxism: Philosophy and Social Theory
  • 2. Western Marxism
  • 3. Post-Marxism
  • Part II. Structuralism
  • Introduction: Structuralism
  • 4. Structuralism and Semiotics
  • 5. Genetic Structuralism
  • Part III. Poststructuralism
  • Introduction: Poststructuralism
  • 6. Phenomenology and Poststructuralism
  • 7. Deconstruction
  • 8. Discourse Theory
  • Part IV. Postmodernism
  • Introduction: Postmodernism
  • 9. Philosophical Postmodernism: From Adorno and Derrida to Foucault
  • 10. Postmodern Aesthetics
  • Part V. Postcolonialism
  • Introduction: Postcolonialism
  • 11. Postcolonial Theory and Criticism
  • 12. Black Studies
  • 13. Critical Race Theory
  • Part VI. Gender
  • Introduction: Gender
  • 14. Queer Theory
  • 15. Men, Masculinity and Critical Studies
  • Part VII. Feminism
  • Introduction: Feminism
  • 16. First and Second Wave Feminism
  • 17. After de Beauvoir: ‘French’ Feminism and Sexual Difference
  • 18. Postfeminism
  • Part VIII. Historicism
  • Introduction: Historicism
  • 19. Reception and Reader-Response Theory
  • 20. New Historicism
  • 21. Cultural Materialism
  • Part IX. Formalism
  • Introduction: Formalism
  • 22. Russian Formalism and Narratology
  • 23. New Criticism
  • Part X. Science and Critical Theory
  • Introduction: Science and Critical Theory
  • 24. Critical Theory and Paradigm Shift
  • 25. Critical Theory and Mathematics and Science
  • 26. Cognitive Science and Critical Theory
  • XI: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory
  • 27. Freudian Psychoanalysis
  • 28. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Index