The Future of Literary Theory
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The Future of Literary Theory

  1. 444 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Future of Literary Theory

About this book

In this book, first published in 1989, twenty-give eminent critics and theorists write about different aspects of literary theory. These essays represent leading research in psychoanalytic criticism, new historicism, Continental theory, feminism, Afro-American studies, philosophy, cybernetics, aesthetics, and other theoretical inflections. The result is a collective statement on the course that lies ahead for criticism in the humanities, and will be of interest to students of literary theory.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781138689565
eBook ISBN
9781134980581
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism Theory
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Prefatory Note
  6. Original Title
  7. Original Copyright
  8. Contents
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 From the Scene of the Unconscious to the Scene of History
  11. 2 “Figuring the nature of the times deceased”: Literary Theory and Historical Writing
  12. 3 Historical Worlds, Literary History
  13. 4 Perceptive Equilibrium: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory
  14. 5 The State of the Art of Criticism
  15. 6 The Function of Literary Theory at the Present Time
  16. 7 Historia Calamitatum et Fortunarum Mearum or: A Paradigm Shift in Literary Study
  17. 8 Woolf’s Room, Our Project: The Building of Feminist Criticism
  18. 9 The Mirror and the Vamp: Reflections on Feminist Criticism
  19. 10 Literary Genres and Textual Genericity
  20. 11 The Sense of an Answer: Ambiguities of Interpretation in Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis
  21. 12 Towards a Literary Anthropology
  22. 13 The Future of Theory: Saving the Reader
  23. 14 The Future of Theory in the Teaching of Literature
  24. 15 Paul de Man’s Contribution to Literary Criticism and Theory
  25. 16 The Future of an Illusion
  26. 17 The Future of Genre Theory: Functions and Constructional Types
  27. 18 Mystory: The Law of Idiom in Applied Grammatology
  28. 19 Authority, (White) Power, and the (Black) Critic; or, it’s all Greek to me
  29. 20 A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory
  30. 21 Beautiful Science and the Future of Criticism
  31. 22 Computers, Literary Theory, and Theory of Meaning
  32. Notes