The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory - Gregory Castle 2007
Introduction
The Rise of Literary Theory
Critical Theory
Cultural Studies
Deconstruction
Ethnic Studies
Feminist Theory
Gender and Sexuality
Marxist Theory
Narrative Theory
New Criticism
New Historicism
Postcolonial Studies
Postmodernism
Poststructuralism
Psychoanalysis
Reader-Response Theory
Structuralism and Formalism
Key Figures in Literary Theory
Theodor Adorno (1903-69)
Louis Althusser (1918-90)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975)
Roland Barthes (1915-80)
Jean Baudrillard (1929-)
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
Homi Bhabha (1949-)
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
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-)
Frantz Fanon (1925-61)
Stanley Fish (1938-)
Michel Foucault (1926-84)
Henry Louis Gates (1950-)
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-)
Jacques Lacan (1901-81)
Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-98)
J. Hillis Miller (1928-)
Edward Said (1935-2003)
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
William Butler Yeats, “Leda and the Swan”
Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
Conclusion: Reading Literary Theory
Recommendations for Further Study
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