Preface to the Fourth Edition
Introduction
1 New Criticism,moral formalism and F.R.Leavis
Origins:Eliot,Richards,Empson
The American New Critics
Moral formalism:F.R.Leavis
2 Russian formalism
Shklovsky,Mukarovsky,Jakobson
The akhtion School
3 Reader-oriented theories
Phenomenology:Husserl,Heidegger,Gadamer
Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser
Fish,Riffaterre,Bleich
4 Structuralist theories
The linguistic background
Structuralist narratology
Metaphor and metonymy
Structuralist poetics
5 Marxist theories
Soviet Socialist Realism
Lukacs and Brecht
The Frankfurt School:Adorno and Benjamin
﹀Structuralist﹀Marxism:Goldmann,Althusser,Macherey
﹀New Left﹀Marxism:Williams,Eagleton,Jameson
6 Feminist theories
First-wave feminist criticism:Woolf and de Beauvoir
Second-wave feminist criticism:
i.Kate Millett:sexual politics
ii.Marxist feminism
iii.Elaine Showalter:gynocriticism
iv.French feminism:Kristeva,Cixous,Irigaray
7 Poststructuralist theories
Roland Barthes
Psychoanalytic theories:
i.Jacques Lacan
ii.Julia Kristeva
iii.Deleuze and Guattari
Deconstruction:
i.Jacques Derrida
ii.American deconstruction
Michel Foucault
New Historicism and cultural materialism
8 Postmodernist theories
Jean Baudrillard
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Postmodernism and Marxism
Postmodern feminisms
9 Postcolonialist theories
Edward Said
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Homi K.Bhabha
Race and ethnicity
10 Gay,lesbian and queer theories
Gay theory and criticism
Lesbian feminist theory and criticism
Queer theory and criticism
Index
