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Interest in critical theory has grown enormously since the end of the 1960s and now seems to be fully integrated into most university programs. Leonard Orr has prepared a much needed historical and international dictionary of the language of critical theory. He includes terms that have appeared with great frequency in the indexes to anthologies of critical theory, either general or specific to a period or school; terms that have appeared in the indexes to standard histories of criticism; schools of criticism or broad types of criticism; and key terms from foreign-language critical theory. All definitions are written from the perspective of literary critical use. The entries generally include source information. Whenever possible, the reader is referred to sources in English. Cross-references are also provided as appropriate.
While the majority of readers of this work will be faculty members and graduate students in English, foreign literatures, or comparative literature, the definitions are accessible enough to be useful for undergraduates and non-academics.
List of contents
Preface
The DictionaryForeign Terms
Index of Theorists
About the author
LEONARD ORR is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of
Semiotic and Structuralist Analyses of Fiction and
Problems and Poetics of the Nonaristotelian Novel, and he has edited
Yeats and Postmodernism and
De-Structing the Novel: Essays in Applied Postmodern Hermeneutics. Orr is currently completing A
Dictionary of Critical Theory and
A Handbook of Critical Theory, both to be published by Greenwood Press, and he is editing
Critical Essays on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He has written numerous articles published in
Modern Fiction Studies,
The Journal of Narrative Technique,
SubStance,
Neophilologus,
College English, and other journals.
