Modern North American Criticism and Theory

Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, with the Department of English and Drama, at Loughborough University. He has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, and theoretical approaches to literature. His most recent books are Thomas Hardy and Literature, in Theory. He is currently working on The Derrida Wordbook (EUP) and a study of the relation between philosophy and poetry in the nineteenth century.

Preface; 1. Charles Sanders Peirce and Semiotics, Kenneth Womack; 2. The New Criticism, Charles Altieri; 3. The Chicago School, William Baker; 4. Northrop Frye, Imre Salusinszky; 5. The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism, Mark Currie; 6. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Norman Holland, Stanley Fish and David Bleich, Jeremy Lane; 7. The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Ortwin de Graef; 8. Deconstruction of America, William Flesch; 9. Fredric Jameson and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism, Carolyn Lesjak; 10. Edward W. Said, John Kucich; 11. American Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism, Ruth Robbins; 12. Feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s: The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies, Megan Becker-Leckrone; 13. Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism, Megan Becker-Leckrone; 14. Feminists of Color, Anne Donadey; 15. Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism, Virginia Mason Vaughan; 16. Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Theory, David Van Leer; 17. Postcolonial Studies, Malini Johar Schueller; 18. Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism, Marcel Cornis-Pope; 19. African-American Studies, Yun Hsing Wu; 20. Chicano/a Literature, Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes; 21. Film Studies, Toby Miller; 22. Feminist Film Studies and Film Theory, Julian Wolfreys; 23. Ethical Criticism, Kenneth Womack; 24. Postmodernism, Marcel Cornis-Pope; 25. The Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate, Kate Flint; 26. Whiteness Studies, Betsy Nies; 27. Masculinity and Cultural Studies, David Alderson; 28. Comics Studies, Christopher Eklund; 29. Anglophone Canadian Literary Studies, Fiona Tolan; 30. Francophone Canadian Literature, Elodie Rousselot; Contributors; Index.