Cloth: 978-0-226-47204-1 | Paper: 978-0-226-47203-4 | Electronic: 978-0-226-47209-6
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226472096.001.0001
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Critical Terms for Literary Study is an essential handbook and introduction to the work of literary theory. Covering a broad range of key terms that include popular culture, diversity, imperialism, ethics, desire, class, gender, race, canon, representation, and much more through essays by leading scholars, it provides a concise history of each term alongside a critical exploration of the issues and questions for the field that it raises, followed by demonstrations of reading strategies driven by the term.
Exploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study, as the nation's most distinguished scholars put the tools of critical practice vividly to use.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction: Thomas McLaughlin
I. Literature as Writing
1. Representation: W.J.T. Mitchell
2. Structure: John Carlas Rowe
3. Writing: Barbara Johnson
4. Discourse: Paul A. Bove'
5. Narrative: J Hillis Miller
6. Figurative Language: Thomas McLaughlin
7. Performance: Henvy Sayre
8. Author: Donald E. Pease
II. Interpretation
9. Interpretation: Steven Mailloux
10. Intention: Annabel Patterson
11. Unconscious: Franpise Meltzer
12. Determinacy/ Indeterminacy: Gerald Graf
13. Value / Evaluation: Barbara Hemstein Smith
14. Influence: Louis A. Renza
15. Rhetoric: Stanley Fish
III. Literature, Culture, Politics
16. Culture: Stephen Greenblatt
17. Canon: John Guilloly
18. Literary History: Lee Patterson
19. Gender: Myra Jehlen
20. Race: Kwame Anthony Appiah
21. Ethnicity: Werner Sollors
22. Ideology: James H. Kavanagh
23. Popular Culture: John Fiske
24. Diversity: Louis Menand
25. Imperialism /Nationalism: Seamus Deane
26. Desire: Judith Butler
27. Ethlcs: Geoffrey Galt Harpham
28. Class: Daniel T O'Hara
In Place of an Afterword - Someone Reading: Frank Lentricchia
References
List of Contributors
Index