Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory_ From Structuralism to Ecocriticism-Pearson Education

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Prefacing Theory......Page 10
Chapter 1: Structuralism......Page 14
  The Linguistic Turn: Saussurean Linguistics......Page 17
  Russian Formalism......Page 20
  Roman Jakobson and Metaphor-Metonymy......Page 22
  Semiotics......Page 26
 Structuralism and Narrative Theory......Page 29
   The Folktale......Page 30
   Structural Semiotics......Page 31
   Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogism......Page 34
   Roland Barthes and his Codes......Page 36
   Narratives and their Intertexts......Page 43
  Author, Reader......Page 44
 Note......Page 45
Chapter 2: Poststructuralism and Deconstruction......Page 46
  The Discursive Turn: Michel Foucault......Page 47
  The Deconstructive Turn: Barthes and Derrida......Page 50
  Text, Textuality and Writing......Page 53
   Phonocentrism, Logocentrism and the ‘Metaphysics of Presence’......Page 54
   The Supplement and Differance......Page 55
   ‘There is No Outside-Text’......Page 56
   J. Hillis Miller’s Deconstruction......Page 58
   Binaries, Reversals and Deconstructive Reading......Page 59
   Jean Baudrillard, the Hyperreal and Simulation......Page 61
   Gilles Deleuze and Simulacra......Page 63
   Lyotard and the Postmodern......Page 64
  Subject and Subjectivity in Poststructuralism......Page 66
   Kristeva and the Chora......Page 67
  Poststructuralism, Flows and Deterritorialization......Page 69
  Poststructuralism, Postmodernism and Narrative......Page 71
  Poststructuralism and the Theory of Minor Literature......Page 73
 Further Reading......Page 74
 Notes......Page 75
Chapter 3: Psychoanalytic Criticism......Page 76
   The Structure of the Human Psyche......Page 77
   The Oedipus Complex......Page 79
   Dreams and the Unconscious......Page 80
   Freud on Women......Page 82
  Reader-Response Criticism......Page 84
   Archetypal Criticism......Page 86
  Mothers, Daugh Ters......Page 87
  Lacan, Language and the Unconscious......Page 88
 Poststructuralist Psychoanalysis......Page 91
  Freudian Revisionism: Harold Bloom......Page 92
  Schizoanalysis: Deleuze and Guattari......Page 93
 Further Reading......Page 94
Chapter 4: Feminisms......Page 95
  The Gender Turn: Mary Wollstone Craft and the Rights of Women......Page 98
  Virginia Woolf, Authorship, Androgyny......Page 99
  Simone Debeauvoir and Existential Feminism......Page 101
  The Social Construction of Gender......Page 102
  Postmodernism, Gender and Performativity......Page 104
 Materialist Views of Gender......Page 106
  Writing Women......Page 107
   Women Writing Criticism......Page 109
 Women, Language, Writing......Page 110
  Écriture Feminine......Page 111
  The Politics of Women’s Biology......Page 112
 The Subject and Subjectivity in Feminism......Page 113
 Sexuality and Desire......Page 116
  Feminist Critiques of the Nation......Page 118
 Race and Ethnicity......Page 121
  Black Feminism......Page 122
  Postcolo Nialfeminism......Page 125
 Technology and the Feminist Response......Page 127
  Cyborg Cultures......Page 128
   Women in/and Cyberspace......Page 130
   Cyberfeminist Art and Culture......Page 131
 Notes......Page 133
Chapter 5: Marxisms......Page 134
  The Class Turn: Marx and Engels......Page 135
 Marxism and Culture......Page 137
 Culture, Ideology and Hegemony......Page 141
 Base and Superstructure......Page 149
 Raymond Williams, Cultural Materialism and ‘Determination’......Page 150
 Dominant, Residual and Emergent Cultures......Page 154
 The Culture Industry......Page 155
  Pierre Macherey and Literary Production......Page 157
  Aesthetics, Ideology and Cultural Production......Page 158
  Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Production......Page 160
  Fredric Jameson and Postmodernity......Page 161
 Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies......Page 162
 Further Reading......Page 164
 Notes......Page 165
Chapter 6: Postcolonial Theory......Page 166
  The Imperial Turn: Gandhi, Anti-Colonial Struggle and the Early Postcolonial......Page 168
  Frantz Fanon and the Psychopathology of Colonialism......Page 170
  Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor and Negritude......Page 172
  Edward Said, Orientalism and the Postcolo Nial Moment......Page 173
  The Literature of Empire......Page 177
  Language and Imperialism......Page 180
 Subject and Subalternity......Page 181
 Gender, Sexuality and the Empire......Page 185
 Nations and Nationalism......Page 188
 Globalization, Diaspora and the Postnational......Page 191
  Diaspora......Page 192
  Cosmopolitanisms......Page 193
  The Postnational......Page 194
 Notes......Page 195
Chapter 7: Queer Theory......Page 196
  Michel Foucault and the Discourses of Sexuatity......Page 198
  the Social Construction of Sexuality......Page 200
 Gender Identity and Performativity......Page 202
  Past Texts and Future Politics......Page 205
  Queer Subcultures......Page 206
 Lesbian Feminism and Radicalesbians......Page 207
 Race and Sexuality......Page 208
  Queer Diaspora......Page 210
 Further Reading......Page 211
 Notes......Page 212
Chapter 8: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism......Page 213
  The Historicist Turn......Page 214
   History and Textuality......Page 215
   Culture and Ideology......Page 216
 Culture-as-Text, Cultural Texts......Page 218
 Materialist Critiques......Page 219
  Texts, Discourses, Material Practices......Page 221
  Improvisation......Page 222
  Circulation......Page 224
  Cultural Poetics......Page 225
 Cultural Materialism......Page 226
  The Politics of Interpretation......Page 227
  Dissident Reading......Page 228
 Further Reading......Page 229
Chapter 9: Critical Race Studies......Page 230
   Dubois and Social Theory......Page 231
   Larry Neal, Myth and Racial Memory......Page 233
 Race and Difference......Page 234
  Henry Louis Gates, JR and Signifyin(G)......Page 236
 First Peoples, in Theory......Page 239
 ‘Mixed Race’ and Multiethnic Culture Studies......Page 241
  Mestiza Poetics and Theories......Page 243
  Being Black, While Being British......Page 245
 New Theories of ‘Difference’......Page 247
  Jacques Derrida, Hospitality and Cosmopolitanism......Page 248
  Roberto Esposito and Bios......Page 250
  Aihwa ONG and the Refugee......Page 251
 Notes......Page 253
Chapter 10: Ecocriticism......Page 254
  The Ecological Turn......Page 255
  ‘Nature’ in Western Thought......Page 257
 Deep Ecology......Page 259
 Apocalypticism......Page 260
 Third World Environmentalism......Page 261
 Ecofeminism......Page 262
  Materialist/Socialist Ecofeminism......Page 263
  Ecofeminist Spirituality......Page 264
 Literary Ecology......Page 265
 Notes......Page 266
Bibliography......Page 268
About the Author......Page 284
Index......Page 286