The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory - Gregory Castle 2007

The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory - Gregory Castle 2007

The Rise of Literary Theory

Cultural Studies

Feminist Theory

Gender and Sexuality

Narrative Theory

New Historicism

Postcolonial Studies

Poststructuralism

Reader-Response Theory

Structuralism and Formalism

Key Figures in Literary Theory

Theodor Adorno (1903-69)

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975)

Roland Barthes (1915-80)

Jean Baudrillard (1929-)

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)

Judith Butler (1956-)

Hazel Carby (1948-)

Helene Cixous (1937-)

Teresa de Lauretis (1939-)

Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) and Felix Guattari (1930-92)

Paul de Man (1919-83)

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)

Terry Eagleton (1943-)

Stanley Fish (1938-)

Michel Foucault (1926-84)

Sandra Gilbert (1936-) and Susan Gubar (1944-)

Stephen Greenblatt (1943-)

Stuart Hall (1932-)

Donna Haraway (1944-)

Bell Hooks (1952-)

Linda Hutcheon (1947-)

Luce Irigaray (1930-)

Wolfgang Iser (1926-)

Fredric Jameson (1934-)

Julia Kristeva (1941-)

Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-98)

J. Hillis Miller (1928-)

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-)

Elaine Showalter (1941-)

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942-)

Raymond Williams (1921-88)

Slavoj Zizek (1949-)

Reading with Literary Theory

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

James Joyce, Ulysses

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Samuel Beckett, Endgame

Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

Conclusion: Reading Literary Theory