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Informationen zum Autor Julie Rivkin is Professor at Connecticut College, where she teaches courses in American Literature, Contemporary Women Writers, and Literary Theory. She is the author of False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James's Fiction (1996).Michael Ryan is Professor of English at Northeastern University, where he teaches courses in American Literature and Culture, American Film, and Literary Theory. Klappentext This anthology of classic and cutting-edge statements in literary theory has now been updated to include recent influential texts in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Postcolonialism and International StudiesA definitive collection of classic statements in criticism and new theoretical work from the past few decadesAll the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory are represented, from Formalism to PostcolonialismEnables students to familiarise themselves with the most recent developments in literary theory and with the traditions from which these new theories derive Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface.Acknowledgments.Part One Formalisms: Russian Formalism and New Criticism.Part Two Structuralism, Linguistics, Narratology.Part Three Rhetoric, Phenomenology, Reader Response.Part Four Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-Modernism.Part Five Pschoanalysis & Psychology.Part Six Historicisms.Part Seven Political Criticism: From Marxism to Cultural Materialism.Part Eight Feminism.Part Nine Gender Studies.Part Ten Ethnic Literary & Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory.Part Eleven Colonial, Post-Colonial, & Transnational Studies.Part Twelve Cultural Studies.Index
