The Cambridge history of literary criticism. Volume 9, Twentieth-century historical, philosophical and psychological perspectives / edited by Christa Knellwolf and Christopher Norris ; assistant editor Jessica Osborn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

King, Christa Knellwolf, editor.

Norris, Christopher, 1947- editor.

Osborn, Jessica, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 482 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This ninth volume in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism presents a wide-ranging survey of developments in literary criticism and theory during the last century. Drawing on the combined expertise of a large team of specialist scholars, it offers an authoritative account of the various movements of thought that have made the late twentieth century such a richly productive period in the history of criticism. The aim has been to cover developments which have had greatest impact on the academic study of literature, along with background chapters that place those movements in a broader, intellectual, national and socio-cultural perspective. In comparison with Volumes Seven and Eight, also devoted to twentieth-century developments, there is marked emphasis on the rethinking of historical and philosophical approaches, which have emerged, especially during the past two decades, as among the most challenging areas of debate.

Contents:

Introduction / Christa Knellwolf and Christopher Norris

History

Historicism and historical criticism / Paul Hamilton

Literary criticism and the history of ideas / Timothy Bahti

Cultural materialism / John Drakkakis

New historicism / Duncan Salkeld

Fascist politics and literary criticism / Ortwin De Graef, Dirk De Geest and Eveline Vanfraussen

Marxism and post-Marxism

Marxism and literary criticism / Alex Callinicos

Marxism and poststructuralism / Michael Ryan

Adorno and the early Frankfurt School / Andrew Edgar

The 'German-French' debate : critical theory, hermeneutics and deconstruction / Andrew Bowie

Post-war Italian intellectual culture : from Marxism to cultural studies / Renate Holum

From cultural poetics to cultural studies

Mikhail Bakhtin : historical becoming in language, literature and culture / Ken Hirschkop

Cultural studies / Chris Weedon

Literature and the institutional context in Britain / Gary Day

Psychoanalytic approaches

Literary criticism and psychoanalytic positions / Rainer Emig

Gender and sexuality

The history of feminist criticism / Christa Knellwolf

Feminism and deconstruction / Diane Elam

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer and transgender criticism / Joseph Bristow

Colonialism, post-coloniality, nation and race

Post-colonial theory / Firdous Azim

African American literary history and criticism / Simon Lee-Pierce

Anthropological criticism / Brian Coates

Modernity and postmodernism

Modernism, modernity, modernisation / Robert Holub

Postmodernism / Patricia Waugh

Philosophy, aesthetics and literary criticism

Words and things in phenomenology and existentialism / Clive Cazeaux

Criticism, aesthetics and analytic philosophy / Peter LaMarque

Italian idealism / Stephen Moller

Spanish and Spanish American poetics and criticism / Manuel Barbeito Varela

American neopragmatism and its background / Dan Latimer

Ethics and literary criticism / Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Interdisciplinary approaches

Literature and theology / Kevin Mills

Literary theory, science and philosophy of science / Christopher Norris.

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ISBN:

9781139055376 (ebook)

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