Modern North American criticism and theory : a critical guide / edited by Julian Wolfreys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfreys, Julian, Author.

Contributor:

Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--North America.

Criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on the growth and expansion of critical trends and methodologies, this book offers an introduction to the literary theory in North America. With essays addressing key figures in their historical and cultural contexts, it depicts the change, transformation, and the quest for and affirmation of multiple cultural voices and identities.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839±1914) and Semiotics; 2. The New Criticism; 3. The Chicago School; 4. Northrop Frye (1912±1991); 5. The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism; 6. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Norman Holland (1927±), Stanley Fish (1938±) and David Bleich (1940±); 7. The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller (1928±), Geoffrey Hartman (1929±), Harold Bloom (1930±), Paul de Man (1919±1983); 8. Deconstruction in America; 9. Fredric Jameson (1934±) and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism; 10. Edward W. Said (1935±2003)

11. American Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism12. Feminisms in the 1980's and 1990's: The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies; 13. Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism; 14. Feminists of Colour; 15. Stephen Greenblatt (1943±) 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

Notes:

First published as part of: The Edinburgh encyclopaedia of modern criticism and theory, in 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-50156-1

9786610501564

0-7486-2678-6

OCLC:

475989331

Publisher Number:

9780748626786