Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory : : Approaches, Scholars, Terms / / ed. by Irena Makaryk.
The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools of thought exist, and sometimes conflict, within it. I.R. Makaryk has compiled a welcome guide to the field. Accessible and jargon-free, the Encyclop...
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Contributors -- 1 APPROACHES -- Anglo-American feminist criticism: see Feminist criticism, Anglo- American -- Black criticism -- Chicago School: see Neo- Aristotelian or Chicago School -- Constance School of Reception Aesthetics [Reception Theory] -- Constructivism -- Cultural materialism -- Cultural poetics: see New Historicism -- Dialogical criticism -- Discourse analysis theory -- Empirical Science of Literature/Constructivist Theory of Literature -- Feminist criticism: see Feminist criticism, Anglo-American, French, Quebec -- Feminist materialists -- Implications, difficulties, drawbacks -- Feminist criticism, French -- Feminist criticism, Quebec -- Formalism: see Formalism, Russian; New Criticism; structuralism -- Frankfurt School -- French feminist criticism. See feminist criticism, French -- Genetic criticism -- Geneva School -- Genre criticism -- Grotesque, theories of the -- Hermeneutics -- Hrvatsko filolosko drustvo [Croatian Philological Society] -- Marxist criticism -- Materialist criticism -- Metacriticism -- Narratology -- Neo-Aristotelian or Chicago School -- New Criticism -- New Historicism -- Nitra School -- Performance criticism -- Phenomenological criticism -- Play/freeplay, theories of -- Poetics of expressiveness -- Polish structuralism: see Structuralism, Polish -- Post-colonial theory -- Poststructuralism -- Prague School: see Semiotic Poetics of the Prague School -- Quebec feminist criticism: see Feminist criticism, Quebec -- Reception theory: see Constance School of Reception Aesthetics -- Russian formalism: see Formalism, Russian -- Semiotics -- Sociocriticism -- Speech act theory -- Structuralism -- Structuralism, Polish -- Tartu School -- Thematic criticism: see Theme -- Theory and Pedagogy -- 2 SCHOLARS -- Abrams, M.H. -- Theodor W. Adorno -- Althusser, Louis -- Auerbach, Erich -- Austin, J(ohn) L(angshaw) -- Bachelard, Gaston -- Baker, Houston A., Jr. -- Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich -- Barthes, Roland -- Baudrillard, Jean -- Benjamin, Walter -- Benveniste, Emile -- Blanchot, Maurice -- Bleich, David -- Bloom, Harold -- Bodkin, Maud -- Booth, Wayne C. -- Bourdieu, Pierre Felix -- Bremond, Claude -- Brooks, Cleanth -- Burke, Kenneth Duva -- Cassirer, Ernst Alfred -- Chomsky, Noam Avram -- Cixous, Helene -- Crane, R(onald) S(almon) -- Croce, Benedetto -- Culler, Jonathan Dwight -- de Beauvoir, Simone -- Deleuze, Gilles -- della Volpe, Galvano -- de Man, Paul -- Derrida, Jacques -- Dilthey, Wilhelm -- Ducrot, Oswald -- Eagleton, Terry -- Eco, Umberto -- Eikhenbaum, Boris Mikhailovich -- Eliade, Mircea -- Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns) -- Empson, (Sir) William -- Fiedler, Leslie A. -- Fish, Stanley -- Forster, E(dward) M(organ) -- Foucault, Michel -- Freud, Sigmund -- Frye, Northrop -- Gadamer, Hans-Georg -- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. -- Geertz, Clifford -- Genette, Gerard -- Gilbert, Sandra Mortola, and Susan David Gubar -- Girard, Rene Noel -- Goldmann, Lucien -- Gombrich, (Sir) Ernst Hans Josef -- Gramsci, Antonio -- Greimas, A(lgirdas) J(ulien) -- Grivel, Charles -- Guattari, (Pierre) Felix -- Gubar, Susan David: see Gilbert, Sandra Mortola, and Susan David Gubar -- Hartman, Geoffrey H. -- Heidegger, Martin -- Hirsch, E(ric) D(onald), Jr. -- Holland, Norman N. -- Husserl, Edmund -- Ingarden, Roman -- Irigaray, Luce -- Iser, Wolfgang -- Jakobson, Roman Osipovich -- James, Henry -- Jameson, Fredric R. -- Jauss, Hans Robert -- Jung, Carl Gustav -- Kermode, Frank -- Kierkegaard, S0ren Aabye -- Koestler, Arthur -- Krieger, Murray -- Kristeva, Julia -- Lacan, Jacques-Marie Emile -- Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert) -- Leavis, F(rank) R(aymond) -- Levi-Strauss, Claude -- Lewis, C(live) S(taples) -- Lodge, David John -- Lotman, lurii Mikhailovich -- Lubbock, Percy -- Lukacs, Georg (Gyorgy) -- Lyotard, Jean-Francois -- Macherey, Pierre -- Maritain, Jacques -- Mauron, Charles -- McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall -- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice -- Miller, J(oseph) Hillis -- Moi, Toril -- Mukafovsky, Jan -- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm -- Olson, Elder -- Ong, Walter Jackson -- Ortega y Gasset, Jose -- Peirce, C(harles) S(anders) -- Potebnia, Aleksander A. -- Poulet, Georges -- Praz, Mario -- Prince, Gerald -- Propp, Vladimir lakovlevich -- Richards, I(vor) A(rmstrong) -- Ricoeur, Paul -- Riffaterre, Michael -- Robertson, Durant Waite, Jr. -- Rorty, Richard -- Rousset, Jean -- Said, Edward W. -- Sartre, Jean-Paul -- de Saussure, Ferdinand -- Scholes, Robert -- Searle, John R. -- Shklovskii, Viktor Borisovich -- Showalter, Elaine -- Starobinski, Jean -- Steiner, George Francis -- Todorov, Tzvetan -- Tomashevskii, Boris Viktorovich -- Trilling, Lionel -- Tynianov, lurii Nikolaevich -- Uspenskii, Boris Andreevich -- Wellek, Rene -- White, Hayden -- Williams, Raymond -- Wilson, Edmund -- Wimsatt, William Kurtz, Jr. |
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Summary: | The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools of thought exist, and sometimes conflict, within it. I.R. Makaryk has compiled a welcome guide to the field. Accessible and jargon-free, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory provides lucid, concise explanations of myriad approaches to literature that have arisen over the past forty years.Some 170 scholars from around the world have contributed their expertise to this volume. Their work is organized into three parts. In Part I, forty evaluative essays examine the historical and cultural context out of which new schools of and approaches to literature arose. The essays also discuss the uses and limitations of the various schools, and the key issues they address.Part II focuses on individual theorists. It provides a more detailed picture of the network of scholars not always easily pigeonholed into the categories of Part I. This second section analyses the individual achievements, as well as the influence, of specific scholars, and places them in a larger critical context.Part III deals with the vocabulary of literary theory. It identifies significant, complex terms, places them in context, and explains their origins and use.Accessibility is a key feature of the work. By avoiding jargon, providing mini-bibliographies, and cross-referencing throughout, Makaryk has provided an indispensable tool for literary theorists and historians and for all scholars and students of contemporary criticism and culture. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781442674417 9783110490947 |
DOI: | 10.3138/9781442674417 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Irena Makaryk. |
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