Literary theory today
"This volume assesses the current state of literary theory and examines the issues to be addressed by future research. The essays in this volume cover established theoretical perspectives and debates and also examine the changing the face of literary studies in the modern world. They include essays on reception theory, sociology and literature, modernism and post-modernism, Marxism and literature, feminist literary theory, psychoanalytic literary theory and the relevance of race and imperialism to the study of literature."--Publisher's description
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 249 pages ; 24 cm
9780801425264, 9780801497612, 9780745604770, 0801425263, 0801497612, 0745604773
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Introduction : beyond postmodernism / Peter Collier and Helga Geyer-Ryan
The surprise of otherness : a note on the wartime writings of Paul de Man / Barbara Johnson
The problem of aesthetic value / Peter Burger
Metaphysics at the moment of its fall / Albrecht Wellmer
The theory of reception : a retrospective of its unrecognized prehistory / Hans Robert Jauss
Resonance and wonder / Stephen Greenblatt
Text, author-function and society : towards a sociology of representation and appropriation in modern narrative / Robert Weimann
Undecidability as hermeneutic contraint / Michael Riffaterre
Literariness, dominance and violence in formalist aestetics / Ann Jefferson
Conversions : The merchant of Venice under the sign of saturn / Sarah Kofman
Identification and the real / Julia Kristeva
Feminism and literature / Elaine Showalter
Articulating the archaic : notes on colonial nonsense / Homi K. Bhabha
Poststructuralism, marginality, post-coloniality and value / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak