This third edition of Modern Criticism and Theory represents a major expansion on its previous incarnations with some twenty five new pieces or essays included. This expansion has two principal purposes. Firstly, in keeping with the collection's aim...
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This third edition of Modern Criticism and Theory represents a major expansion on its previous incarnations with some twenty five new pieces or essays included. This expansion has two principal purposes. Firstly, in keeping with the collection's aim to reflect contemporary preoccupations, the reader has expanded forward to include such newly emergent considerations as ecocriticism and post-theory. Secondly, with the aim of presenting as broad an account of modern theory as possible, the reader expands backwards to to take in exemplary pieces by formative writers and thinkers of the late ninete
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contents arranged historically; Contents arranged thematically; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Contents Arranged Historically; 1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Preface, and The premisses of the materialist method; 2. Ferdinand de Saussure; The object of study; 3. Sigmund Freud; The premisses and technique of interpretation, and Manifest and latent elements; 4. Walter Benjamin; The task of the translator; 5. Virginia Woolf; Chapter Two of A Room of One's Own; 6. Simone de Beauvoir
Myth and reality, and Woman's situation and character7. Frantz Fanon; The negro and language; 8. Roman Jakobson; Linguistics and poetics; The metaphoric and metonymic poles; 9. Bertolt Brecht; Study of the first scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus; 10. Jacques Lacan; The insistence of the letter in the unconscious; 11. Jacques Derrida; Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences; 12. Tzvetan Todorov; The typology of detective fiction; 13. Mikhail Bakhtin; From the prehistory of novelistic discourse; 14. E.D. Hirsch, Jr.; In defense of the author; 15. Michel Foucault
What is an author?16. Wolfgang Iser; The reading process: a phenomenological approach; 17. Roland Barthes; The death of the author; Textual analysis: Poe's 'Valdemar'; 18. Raymond Williams; Country and city, and A problem of perspective; 19. Julia Kristeva; The ethics of linguistics; 20. Hélène Cixous; Sorties; 21. Edward Said; Crisis [in orientalism]; 22. Stanley Fish; Interpreting the Variorum; 23. J. Hillis Miller; The critic as host; 24. Jean-François Lyotard; What is postmodernism?; 25. Jean Baudrillard; Simulacra and simulations; 26. Paul de Man; The resistance to theory
27. Geoffrey HartmanThe interpreter's Freud; 28. Umberto Eco; Casablanca: Cult movies and intertextual collage; 29. Michael Riffaterre; Transposing presuppositions on the semiotics of literary translation; 30. Patrocinio P. Schweickart; Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading; 31. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; The beast in the closet; 32. Luce Irigaray; The bodily encounter with the mother; 33. Fredric Jameson; Postmodernism and consumer society; 34. Stephen Greenblatt; The circulation of social energy; 35. Jerome McGann; The textual condition; 36. Stuart Hall; New ethnicities
37. Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakQuestions of multiculturalism, and The post-colonial critic; 38. Judith Butler; Critically queer; 39. Malcolm Bowie; Freud and the European unconscious; 40. Jeffrey Weeks; The sphere of the intimate and the values of everyday life; 41. Lawrence Buell; Place; 42. Slavoj Žižek; Fantasy as a political category: a Lacanian approach; 43. Meyda Yeğenoğlu; The battle of the veil: woman between orientalism and nationalism; 44. David Scott Kastan; From codex to computer; or, presence of mind; 45. Alexander Stille; Writing and the creation of the past