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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 Literary Theory: An Anthology is a definitive collection of classic and contemporary statements in the field of literary theory and criticism. It is an invaluable resource for students who wish to familiarize themselves with the most recent developments in literary theory and with the traditions from which these new theories are derived. The anthology represents all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory. It contains classic texts from a range of movements, including Formalism, Structuralism, Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Historicism, and Feminism, and incorporates cutting-edge work by leading theoreticians in the fields of Postmodernism, Cultural Studies, Post-colonialism, Gay and Lesbian studies, and Ethnic Studies. For the second edition, the content has been updated to include the most recent influential texts, particularly in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Transnational Studies, and Cultural Studies. Zusammenfassung A collection of classic statements in criticism and theoretical work. It represents various schools and methods that make up the field of literary theory! from Formalism to Postcolonialism. It enables students to familiarise themselves with the developments in literary theory and with the traditions from which these theories derive. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Acknowledgments. Part One Formalisms: Russian Formalism and New Criticism. 1. Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Formalisms. 2. Boris Eichenbaum, The Formal Method. 3. Viktor Shklovsky, Art as Technique. 4. Cleanth Brooks, The Formalist Critics. 5. Cleanth Brooks, The Language of Paradox. 6. W. K. Wimsatt, The Structure of the Concrete Universal. Part Two Structuralism, Linguistics, Narratology . 1. Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, The Implied Order: Structuralism. 2. Jonathan Culler, The Linguistic Foundation. 3. Ferdinand de Saussure, Course on General Linguistics. 4. Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folktale. 5. Roman Jakobson, The Two Aspects of Language. 6. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropology and Myth. 7. Roland Barthes, Mythologies. 8. Michel Foucault, The Archeology of Knowledge. 9. Seymour Chatman, The Structure of Narrative Transmission. Part Three Rhetoric, Phenomenology, Reader Response. 1. Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Language and Action. 2. Edmund Husserl, Ideas. 3. Immanuel Kant, Transcendental Aesthetic. 4. Edward Corbett, Classical Rhetoric. 5. J. L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words. 6. Richard Lanham, Tacit Persuasion Patterns & A Dictionary of Rhetorical Terms. 7. Stanley Fish, Not So Much A Teaching As An Intangling. 8. Stanley Fish, Interpretive Communities. 9. John Frow, Text and System. 10. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction. Part Four Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-Modernism . 1. Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Introductory Deconstruction. 2. Friedrich Nietzsche, Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense. 3. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power. 4. Martin Heidegger, Identity and Difference. 5. Georges Bataille, Heterology. 6. Jacques Derrida, Differance. 7. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology. 8. J...
