Literary Theory (eBook)
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Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
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The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics.
- Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to Postcolonialism
- Expanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant.
- Pedagogically enhanced with detailed editorial introductions and a comprehensive glossary of terms
Julie Rivkin is Professor of English at Connecticut College, USA, where she teaches on American literature, contemporary women writers, and literary theory. She is the author of False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James's Fiction (1996). With Michael Ryan, she is the author of Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction(Wiley Blackwell, 3rd edition, 2016).
Michael Ryan is Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University, USA. He is the author of several books, two novels, and co-editor of the journal Politics and Culture. With Julie Rivkin, he is the author of Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction (Wiley Blackwell, 3rd edition, 2016).
Julie Rivkin is Professor of English at Connecticut College, USA, where she teaches on American literature, contemporary women writers, and literary theory. She is the author of False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James's Fiction (1996). With Michael Ryan, she is the author of Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction(Wiley Blackwell, 3rd edition, 2016). Michael Ryan is Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University, USA. He is the author of several books, two novels, and co-editor of the journal Politics and Culture. With Julie Rivkin, he is the author of Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction (Wiley Blackwell, 3rd edition, 2016).
Title Page 5
Copyright Page 6
Contents 7
Preface 11
A Short History of Theory 13
Part One: Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Poetics 35
Chapter 1 Introduction: Formalisms 37
Chapter 2 Art as Technique 42
Notes 47
Chapter 3 The Formalist Critics 49
Chapter 4 Keats’ Sylvan Historian:: History Without the Footnotes 55
Note 62
Chapter 5 The Intentional Fallacy 63
II 66
III 67
IV 69
V 71
Notes 74
Chapter 6 Broken on Purpose: Poetry, Serial Television, and the Season 76
Prosodic Structures in Television Serials 78
A Case Study of the Sonnet-Season: Season 1 of The Sopranos 84
Notes 86
Works Cited 87
Chapter 7 Tools for Reading Poetry 89
Tropes 89
Reading 92
Elision 92
Reading 94
Resemblance 95
Reading 100
Objective Correlative 100
Reading 101
Language Poetry 102
Reading 104
The New Sentence 104
Reading 105
Sound Poetry/Concrete Poetry 106
Reading 110
Prosody 110
Reading 112
Notes 112
Chapter 8 Theory in Practice: “Look, Her Lips”: Softness of Voice, Construction of Character in King Lear 114
I 114
II 116
III 123
IV 129
Notes 132
Chapter 9 Theory in Practice: Romantic Rhetorics (from Elizabeth Bishop: The Restraints of Language) 139
Notes 160
Works Cited 161
Part Two: Structuralism, Linguistics, Narratology 163
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Implied Order: Structuralism 165
Chapter 2 The Linguistic Foundation 168
Note 170
Chapter 3 Course in General Linguistics 171
PART ONE General Principles 172
Chapter I: nature of the linguistic sign 172
Chapter II: immutability and mutability of the sign 175
Chapter III: static and evolutionary linguistics 181
PART TWO Synchronic Linguistics 194
Chapter I: generalities 194
Chapter II: the concrete entities of language 195
Chapter III: identities, realities, values 198
Chapter IV: linguistic value 201
Chapter V: syntagmatic and associative relations 208
Notes 211
Chapter 4 The Structural Study of Myth 212
Notes 228
Chapter 5 Mythologies 230
Chapter 6 Discourse in the Novel 239
Notes 250
Chapter 7 What Is an Author? 251
Notes 263
Chapter 8 Scripts, Sequences, and Stories:: Elements of a Postclassical Narratology 264
Sequences: Classical Accounts and Postclassical Perspectives 267
The Problem of Narrativity: A Thought Experiment 271
Scripts and Literary Interpretation 274
Notes 278
Works Cited 279
Chapter 9 From Beats to Arcs:: Towards a Poetics of Television Narrative 282
Micro Level: Beats 284
Middle Level: Episodes 287
Macro Level: Arcs 291
Conclusion 295
Notes 295
“From Beats to Arcs” 2015 Postscript 299
Notes 303
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: The Subplot as Simplification in King Lear 304
Notes 315
Chapter 11 Theory in Practice: The Stories of “Passion”: An Empirical Study 317
Notes 327
Works Cited 327
Part Three: Phenomenology, Reception, Ethics 329
Chapter 1 Introduction: Situations of Knowledge/Relations with Others 331
Chapter 2 Transcendental Aesthetic 333
General Observations on Transcendental Aesthetic 333
Conclusion of the Transcendental Aesthetic 338
Notes 338
Chapter 3 The Phenomenology of Reading 339
II 344
Chapter 4 Teaching, Studying, and Theorizing the Production and Reception of Literary Texts 352
Notes 363
Works Cited 363
Chapter 5 Distinction 365
Classes and Classifications 365
Embodied Social Structures 366
Knowledge without Concepts 369
Advantageous Attributions 373
The Classification Struggle 376
The Reality of Representation and the Representation of Reality 378
Notes 380
Chapter 6 Ethics and the Face 382
1. Infinity and the Face 382
2. Ethics and the Face 385
3. Reason and the Face 387
4. Discourse Founds Signification 389
5. Language and Objectivity 392
6. The Other and the Others 394
7. The Asymmetry of the Interpersonal 396
8. Will and Reason 397
Notes 399
Chapter 7 Levinas and Literary Interpretation:: Facing Baudelaire’s “Eyes of the Poor” 400
I 401
II 406
III 412
Notes 412
Works Cited 413
Chapter 8 Cultivating Humanity:: The Narrative Imagination 416
Fancy and Wonder 419
Literature and the Compassionate Imagination 421
Compassion in the Curriculum: A Political Agenda? 426
World Citizenship, Relativism, and Identity Politics 432
Notes 435
Chapter 9 Theory in Practice: Relation and Responsibility: A Levinasian Reading of King Lear 436
Notes 452
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: The Baby or the Violin: Ethics and Femininity in the Fiction of Alice Munro 456
“Meneseteung” 459
“My Mother’s Dream” 464
Conclusion 470
Notes 471
Works Cited 474
Part Four: Post-Structuralism 477
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Class of 1968 – Post-Structuralism par lui-même 479
Notes 498
Chapter 2 The Will to Power 500
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512 501
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514 501
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516 502
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Chapter 3 What Is Becoming? 505
Chapter 4 Différance 508
Notes 528
Chapter 5 That Dangerous Supplement 530
From/Of Blindness to the Supplement 533
The Chain of Supplements 540
The Exorbitant. Question of Method 544
Notes 549
Chapter 6 The Death of the Author 552
Chapter 7 From Work to Text 556
Chapter 8 Writing 562
Suggested Readings 569
Chapter 9 Theory in Practice: Lear’s After-Life 570
I 570
II 575
III 579
IV 581
V 583
Notes 586
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice Allegories of Reading in Alice Munro’s “Carried Away” 589
Note 597
Works Cited 597
Part Five: Psychoanalysis and Psychology 599
Chapter 1 Introduction: Strangers to Ourselves: Psychoanalysis 601
Note 608
Chapter 2 The Interpretation of Dreams 609
The Dream of the Botanical Monograph 609
The Dream-work 612
VI 621
Notes 624
Chapter 3 The Uncanny 626
I 626
II 631
III 640
Notes 645
Works Cited 647
Chapter 4 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego 649
Notes 651
Chapter 5 The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience 652
Chapter 6 Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena 658
A Study of the First Not-me Possession 658
Clinical Description of a Transitional Object 662
Theoretical Study 664
Summary 668
Notes 668
References 669
Chapter 7 Trauma Studies and the Literature of the US South 670
Trauma and the U.S. South 674
Notes 680
Works Cited 680
Chapter 8 Theory in Practice: King Lear: The Transference of the Kingdom 684
I 684
II 689
Notes 692
Chapter 9 Theory in Practice: The Weirdest Scale on Earth: Elizabeth Bishop and Containment 694
Notes 707
References 708
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: The Uncontrollable: The Underground Stream 711
Notes 738
Part Six: Marxism, Critical Theory, History 743
Chapter 1 Introduction: Starting with Zero 745
Chapter 2 The Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts of 1844 751
Estranged Labour 752
Private Property and Communism 760
Notes 763
Chapter 3 The German Ideology 764
Note 769
Chapter 4 Theses on the Philosophy of History 770
I 771
II 771
III 771
IV 771
V 772
VI 772
VII 772
VIII 773
IX 773
X 774
XI 774
XII 775
XIII 775
XIV 775
XV 776
XVI 776
XVII 776
XVIII 777
Notes 777
Chapter 5 Structures and the Habitus 779
A False Dilemma: Mechanism and Finalism 779
Structures, Habitus and Practices 785
The Dialectic of Objectification and Embodiment 791
Notes 798
Chapter 6 Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses 802
Ideology is a “Representation” of the Imaginary Relationship of Individuals to their Real Conditions of Existence 802
Ideology Interpellates Individuals as Subjects 807
Notes 810
Chapter 7 Right of Death and Power over Life 812
Notes 825
Chapter 8 Homo Sacer 826
Introduction 826
PART ONE The Logic of Sovereignty 833
Note 841
Works Cited 841
Chapter 9 New Historicisms 843
I 843
II 847
III 850
IV 854
V 859
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: Reason and Need: King Lear and the Crisis of the Aristocracy 866
Notes 889
Chapter 11 Theory in Practice: Social Class in Alice Munro’s “Sunday Afternoon” and “Hired Girl” 892
Notes 902
References 902
Chapter 12 Theory in Practice: Elizabeth Bishop, Modernism, and the Left 903
Notes 920
Works Cited 922
Part Seven: Gender Studies and Queer Theory 925
Chapter 1 Introduction: Feminist Paradigms/Gender Effects 927
Notes 934
Chapter 2 The Traffic in Women 935
Marx 937
Engels 939
Kinship 941
Deeper into the Labyrinth 945
Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents 949
The Political Economy of Sex 951
Notes 955
Chapter 3 Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience 959
I 959
II 963
Notes 970
Chapter 4 The Laugh of the Medusa 974
Notes 987
Chapter 5 Imitation and Gender Insubordination 989
Psychic Mimesis 993
Notes 995
Chapter 6 Global Identities:: Theorizing Transnational Studies of Sexuality 997
Notes 1006
Chapter 7 Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts 1010
Gender and Work: Historical and Ideological Transformations 1014
Housewives and Homework: The Lacemakers of Narsapur 1017
Immigrant Wives, Mothers, and Factory Work: Electronics Workers in the Silicon Valley 1019
Daughters, Wives, and Mothers: Migrant Women Workers in Britain 1022
Common Interests/Different Needs: Collective Struggles of Poor Women Workers 1025
Notes 1030
Chapter 8 “I Would Rather Be a Cyborg Than a Goddess”:: Becoming Intersectional in Assemblage Theory 1034
Intersectionality and Its Discontents 1036
Cyborgs and Other Companionate Assemblages 1039
Re-reading Intersectionality as Assemblage 1042
Notes 1046
References 1046
Chapter 9 Epistemology of the Closet 1048
Notes 1056
Chapter 10 Queers, Read This 1058
A Leaflet Distributed at Pride March in NY Published anonymously by Queers June, 1990 1058
An Army of Lovers cannot Lose 1059
Anger 1060
Queer Artists 1061
If you’re Queer, 1061
Shout It! 1062
I Hate … 1062
Where Are You Sisters? 1062
Where Are You? 1063
Get Up, Wake Up Sisters!! 1063
When Anyone Assaults You for being Queer, It is Queer Bashing. Right? 1063
Why Queer 1064
No Sex Police 1065
Queer Space 1065
Rules of Conduct for Straight People 1065
I Hate Straights 1066
Chapter 11 Sex in Public 1068
1. There Is Nothing More Public Than Privacy 1068
2. Normativity and Sexual Culture 1071
3. Queer Counterpublics 1074
4. Tweaking and Thwacking 1078
Notes 1079
Chapter 12 Naturally Queer 1084
Queerying Sexual Difference 1084
Queerying Technology 1085
Queerying Boundaries 1086
Conclusion 1087
Notes 1087
References 1087
Chapter 13 Cruising Utopia:: “Introduction” and “Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism” 1088
Introduction 1088
Queerness as Horizon 1089
Notes 1098
Chapter 14 Theory in Practice: Queer Lear: A Gender Reading of King Lear 1100
Chapter 15 Theory in Practice Elizabeth Bishop’s “Queer Birds”: Vassar, Con Spirito, and the Romance of Female Community 1113
Notes 1126
Works Cited 1127
Part Eight: Ethnic, Indigenous, Post-Colonial, and Transnational Studies 1131
Chapter 1 Introduction: English Without Shadows: Literature on a World Scale 1133
Chapter 2 Orientalism 1141
Introduction 1141
The Scope of Orientalism 1158
Notes: Introduction 1169
The Scope of Orientalism 1169
Chapter 3 An Image of Africa:: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness 1171
Chapter 4 Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism 1181
Notes 1194
Chapter 5 Playing in the Dark 1197
Notes 1207
Chapter 6 A Small Place 1208
Chapter 7 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy 1214
Notes 1223
References 1223
Chapter 8 Cultural Identity and Diaspora 1225
Notes 1234
Chapter 9 Translation, Empiricism, Ethics 1236
Works Cited 1243
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: National Messianism and English Choreography in King Lear 1244
I. Nation, Nature and Natio: “The King Falls from Bias of Nature” 1245
II. Topography, Topos and Telos: Kent and National Messianism 1248
III. Alba, Albion and Albany: “Wherefore to Dover?” 1252
IV. The Duke of Albany and Macbeth: “Is This the Promised End?” 1255
Notes 1256
References 1258
Chapter 11 Theory in Practice Elizabeth Bishop’s “Brazil, January 1, 1502” and Max Jacob’s “Etablissement d’une communauté au Brésil”: A Study of Transformative Interpretation and Influence 1261
Notes 1271
Works Cited 1272
Chapter 12 Theory in Practice: Annals of Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro 1273
Bibliography 1284
NINE PART Nine 1287
Chapter 1 Introduction: In the Body of the Text 1289
Chapter 2 Embodied Literature: A Cognitive-Poststructuralist Approach to Genre 1299
I 1299
II 1301
III 1304
IV 1305
V 1307
VI 1310
VII 1312
Notes 1313
References 1315
Chapter 3 Narrative Empathy 1318
What Is Empathy? 1319
How Is Empathy Studied? 1321
A Theory of Narrative Empathy 1324
Empathetic Narrative Techniques 1326
How Narrative Empathy Works: Authors and Audiences 1330
Unanswered Questions 1335
Notes 1336
Works Cited 1340
Chapter 4 Affective Economies 1346
Economies of Hate 1348
Fear, Bodies, and Objects 1351
Global Economies of Fear 1354
Notes 1360
Chapter 5 Human Nature and Literary Meaning 1363
The Challenge to a Darwinian Literary Criticism 1363
The Emerging Paradigm in Darwinian Psychology 1366
The Cognitive Behavioral System 1371
A Diagram of Human Nature 1373
Meaning and Point of View in Literary Representations 1374
Human Nature, Human Universals, Culture, and Individual Differences 1376
Life History Analysis and Cognitive Style in Pride and Prejudice 1379
The Value of a Darwinian Literary Criticism 1385
The Whole Story 1386
Works Cited 1387
Chapter 6 Literary Brains:: Neuroscience, Criticism, and Theory 1394
Some Notes on the Brain 1395
The Goals of Literary Criticism and Theory and Their Relation to Neuroscience 1398
A Concluding Note on the Distinctness of Literary Study 1404
Works Cited 1405
Chapter 7 Digital Humanities: Theorizing Research Practices 1407
Notes 1412
Chapter 8 Planet Hollywood 1414
I 1414
II 1416
III 1417
IV 1418
V 1420
VI 1421
Notes 1422
Chapter 9 Theory in Practice: According to My Bond: King Lear and Re-Cognition 1423
1 Metaphor and Schematised Bodily Experience 1423
2 The King’s Account-books 1426
3 The LINKS Schema 1432
4 On Description and Explanation 1434
Notes 1436
References 1437
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: Skinned: Taxidermy and Pedophilia in Munro’s “Vandals” 1439
Notes 1448
Works Cited 1449
Part Ten: Animals, Humans, Places, Things 1451
Chapter 1 Introduction: Matters Pertinent to a Theory of Human Existence 1453
Chapter 2 Non-Representational Theory: Life, But Not as We Know It 1457
Introduction 1458
Non-Representational Theory 1461
The Book 1472
The Chapters 1474
Notes 1479
Works Cited 1482
Chapter 3 Complexity 1486
Introduction 1486
Time and Space 1487
Emergence 1489
Systems and Feedback 1490
Complex Systems 1490
References 1491
Chapter 4 On Actor Network Theory: A Few Clarifications 1492
I 1492
II 1494
III 1496
IV 1502
Literaturverzeichnis 1503
Chapter 5 The Animal Turn, Literary Studies, and the Academy 1505
I 1506
II 1509
III 1512
Appendix 1515
Notes 1515
References 1516
Chapter 6 The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification 1520
Three Definitions 1521
Three Analytic Examples 1524
Coda 1536
Notes 1537
Works Cited 1539
Chapter 7 Ecocriticism 1541
Introduction 1541
The Roots of Ecocriticism 1542
The First Wave – Reinstating the ‘Real’ 1544
Deep and Social Ecology 1545
The Second Wave – Debating ‘Nature’ 1546
Slow Violence – Towards a Global Ecocriticism 1549
Eco-Cosmopolitics and the Third Wave 1550
The Fourth Wave – Material Ecocriticism: Post-Human and Post-Nature 1551
Shared Materiality and Post-Humanism 1552
The Agency of Matter 1553
‘Thing Power’: Ethical Challenges 1554
The Future of Ecocriticism – Despair, Excitement and ‘Slow Reading’ 1556
Notes 1557
Works Cited 1559
Chapter 8 Eating Things: Food, Animals, and Other Life Forms in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books 1563
Notes 1577
Chapter 9 Theory in Practice: The Autumn King: Remembering the Land in King Lear 1581
Notes 1596
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: Elizabeth Bishop’s “Pink Dog” 1601
Other Animals in Bishop 1605
‘Pink Dog’ and Non-human Knowledge 1610
Notes 1613
Glossary of Terms 1615
EULA 1640
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.1.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Blackwell Anthologies |
| Blackwell Anthologies | Blackwell Anthologies |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | English literature, literary criticism, formalism, discourse studies, narrative , linguistics, structuralism, post-structuralism,Derrida, Barthes, Foucault, phenomenology, Husserl, psychoanalysis, Freud, gender studies, Lacan, Marxism, Marx, Adorno, , Dialectics, feminism, transnational studies, Walter Benjamin, Ethnic studies, Queer theory, Spivak, Butler, , Said, Agamben, Ahmed, Berlant, thing studies, evolution, cognition, eco-criticism, environment,, ethics, affect, neuroscience, digital humanities, an • Literary Theory • Literature • Literaturtheorie • Literaturwissenschaft |
| ISBN-10 | 1-118-71831-3 / 1118718313 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-118-71831-5 / 9781118718315 |
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