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Fourth edition

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017

xv, 362 stran ; 20 cm

ISBN 978-1-5261-2179-0 (brožováno)

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Contents // Acknowledgements xi // Preface to the fourth edition xiii // Introduction 1 // About this book 1 // Approaching theory 6 // My own ‘stock-taking’ 9 // 1 Theory before Theory’ 11 // The history of English studies 11 // Ten tenets of liberal humanism 19 // Literary theorising from Aristotle to Leavis - // some key moments 23 // Liberal humanism in practice 33 // The turn to ‘theory’ 34 // Some recurrent ideas in critical theory 35 // Selected reading 38 // 2 Structuralism 40 // Structuralist chickens and liberal humanist eggs 40 // Signs of the fathers - Saussure 42 // The scope of structuralism 46 // What structuralist critics do 50 // Structuralist criticism: examples 50 // Selected reading 60 // Contents // vi // 3 Post-structuralism and deconstruction // Some theoretical differences between structuralism and post-structuralism Post-structuralism - life on a decentred planet A note on the translation of Of Grammatology and on ‘reading’ // Structuralism and post-structuralism - some practical differences What post-structuralist critics do Deconstruction: an example Selected reading // 4 Postmodernism // What is postmodernism? What was modernism? ‘Landmarks’ in postmodernism - Habermas, Lyotard, and Baudrillard What postmodernist critics do Postmodernist criticism: an example Selected reading // 5 Psychoanalytic criticism Introduction // Should we say ‘unconscious’ or ‘subconscious’ when discussing Freudian ideas? // How Freudian interpretation works Freud and evidence // What Freudian psychoanalytic critics do Freudian psychoanalytic criticism: examples Lacan // What Lacanian critics do Lacanian criticism: an example Selected reading // 6 Feminist criticism Feminism and feminist criticism Feminist criticism and the role of theory Feminist criticism and language // Feminist criticism and psychoanalysis 132 //

What feminist critics do 135 // Feminist criticism: an example 136 // Selected reading 138 // 7 Queer theory 141 // Introduction 141 // Queer theory and lesbian feminism 143 // Queer theory and libertarian feminism 145 // What queer theorists do 150 // Queer theory: an example 152 // Selected reading 155 // 8 Marxist criticism 159 // Beginnings and basics of Marxism 159 // Marxist literary criticism: general 161 // ‘Leninist’Marxist criticism 162 // ‘Engelsian’ Marxist criticism 164 // The influence of Althusser 165 // What Marxist critics do 170 // Marxist criticism: an example 171 // Selected reading 173 // 9 New historicism and cultural materialism 175 // New historicism 175 // New and old historicisms — some differences 177 // New historicism and Foucault 178 // Advantages and disadvantages of new // historicism 180 // What new historicists do 181 // New historicism: an example 182 // Cultural materialism 184 // How is cultural materialism different from new historicism? 187 // What cultural materialist critics do 189 // Cultural materialism: an example 190 // Selected reading 192 // Contents // viii // 10 Postcolonial criticism 194 // Background 194 // Postcolonial reading 196 // What postcolonial critics do 201 // Postcolonial criticism: an example 201 // Selected reading 203 // 11 Stylistics 205 // Stylistics: a theory or a practice? 205 // A brief historical account: from rhetoric, to philology, to linguistics, to stylistics, to new stylistics 207 // How does stylistics differ from standard close reading? 210 // The ambitions of stylistics 212 // What stylistic critics do 216 // Stylistics: examples 217 // Note 221 // Selected reading 221 // 12 Narratology 223 // Telling stories 223 // Aristotle 224 // Vladimir Propp 227 // Gérard Genette 231 // ‘Joined-up’ narratology 240 // What narratologists do 241 // Narratology: an example 242 //

Selected reading 246 // 13 Ecocriticism 248 // Ecocriticism or green studies? 248 // Culture and nature 252 // Turning criticism inside out 257 // The Anthropocene, and things 263 // Contents ix // What ecocritics do 270 // Ecocriticism: an example 271 // Selected reading 275 // 14 Literary theory - a history in ten events 279 // The Indiana University ‘Conference on Style’, 1958 279 // The Johns Hopkins University international // symposium, 1966 282 // The publication of Deconstruction and Criticism, 1979 284 // The MacCabe affair, 1981 285 // The publication of Eagleton’s Literary Theory: An Introduction, 1983 288 // J. Hillis Miller’s MLA presidential address, // 1986 290 // The Strathclyde University ‘Linguistics of Writing’ conference, 1986 293 // The scandal over Paul de Man’s wartime writings, 1987-88 296 // Jean Baudrillard and ‘The Gulf War never happened’, 1991 298 // The Sokal affair, 1996 301 // 15 Theory after‘Theory’ 304 // Legacies of theory 304 // Presentism 308 // Presentism in practice 312 // New aestheticism 314 // New aestheticism in practice 317 // Cognitive poetics 322 // Cognitive poetics in practice 326 // Consilience and ‘conciliatory’ approaches to // literary studies 331 // Posthumanism 335 // Contents // Appendices 342 // Appendix 1 Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Oval Portrait’ 342 // Appendix 2 Dylan Thomas, ‘A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London’ 345 // Appendix 3 William Cowper, ‘The Castaway’ 346 // Where do we go from here? Further reading 349 // General guides 349 // Reference books 350 // General readers 351 // Applying critical theory: twelve early examples 352 // Against theory 353 // Index 355