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Informationen zum Autor Gregory Castle is a professor of British and Irish literature at Arizona State University. He is author of Modernism and the Celtic Revival (2001), Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman (2006), and The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory (2007) and has edited Postcolonial Discourses (2000) and the Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, vol. 1 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). He has also published numerous essays on Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, and other Irish writers. Klappentext The Literary Theory Handbook provides the ideal starting point to the subject for students, offering clarity on the history, scope and application of literary theory, and providing four distinct entryways into this vast and varied discourse.Raising key questions about the nature of theory and literature, individual chapters offer historical, thematic, biographical, practical perspectives on theoretical concepts, ideas and modes of practice. A chapter on the historical development of theoretical movements, trends and ideas makes connections between and among theories across a century of development. Separate entries on major theories bring together similar methods or objects of study, such as Form, Structure, and Narrative, and short biographical sketches provide a handy reference for key theorists and their major works. The final section of the Handbook features brief readings of literary texts--including works by Shakespeare, Conrad, Faulkner, Beckett, and Rushdie--each informed by multiple perspectives that exemplify theoretical practice. Zusammenfassung The Literary Theory Handbook provides the ideal starting point to the subject for students, offering clarity on the history, scope and application of literary theory, and providing four distinct entryways into this vast and varied discourse. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xAlphabetical Listing of Key Movements and Theories xiiIntroduction 1The Nature of Literary Theory 2What is Literature? 4The Practice of Theory 8How To Use the Handbook 91 The Rise of Literary Theory 11Early Developments in Literary Theory 12Modernism and Formalism, 1890s-1940s 18Cultural and Critical Theory, 1930s-1960s 24The Poststructuralist Turn, 1960s-1970s 27Culture, Gender, and History, 1980s-1990s 33Postmodernism and Post-Marxism, 1980s-2000s 39Posthumanism: Theory at the Fin de Siècle 44Conclusion 472 The Scope of Literary Theory 511 Form/Structure/Narrative/Genre 52Formalism and Structuralism 52New Criticism 59Chicago School Neo-Aristotelian Theory 63Narrative Theory/Narratology 68Theory of the Novel 752 Ideology/Philosophy/History/Aesthetics 84Marxist Theory 84Critical Theory 91Post-Marxist Theory 101New Historicism/Cultural Poetics 119Postmodernism 1253 Language/Systems/Texts/Readers 142Phenomenology and Hermeneutics 142Reader-Response Theory 153Deconstruction 160Poststructuralism 1674 Mind/Body/Gender/Identity 178Psychoanalysis 178Feminist Theory 190Gender Studies 198Gay and Lesbian Studies 204Trauma Studies 2095 Culture/Ethnicities/Nations/Locations 218Cultural Studies 218African American Studies 225Ethnic and Indigenous Studies 231Chicano/a Studies 232Native and Indigenous Studies 235Asian American Studies 237Postcolonial Studies 242Transnationalism 2546 People/Places/Bodies/Things 266Posthumanism 266Evolutionary Literary Theory 278Object-Oriented Ontologies 283Disability Studies 290Ecocriticism 2983 Key Figures in Literary Theory 313Theodor Adorno (1903-69) 313Giorgio Agamben (1942- ) 314Louis Althusser (1918-90) 315Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) 316Roland Barthes (1915-80) 317Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) 318Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) 319Homi Bhabha (1949- ) 320Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) 321Lawrence Buell (1939- ) 322Judith Butler (1956- ) 323Hélène Cixous (1937- ) 324Lennard Davis (1949- ) 324Teresa de Lauretis...
