Acknowledgments |
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Alphabetical Listing of Key Movements and Theories |
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Introduction |
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1 | (10) |
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The Nature of Literary Theory |
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2 | (2) |
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4 | (4) |
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8 | (1) |
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9 | (2) |
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1 The Rise of Literary Theory |
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11 | (40) |
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Early Developments in Literary Theory |
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12 | (6) |
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Modernism and Formalism, 1890s-1940s |
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18 | (6) |
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Cultural and Critical Theory, 1930s-1960s |
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24 | (3) |
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The Poststructuralist Turn, 1960s-1970s |
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27 | (6) |
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Culture, Gender, and History, 1980s-1990s |
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33 | (6) |
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Postmodernism and Post-Marxism, 1980s-2000s |
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39 | (5) |
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Posthumanism: Theory at the Fin de Siecle |
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44 | (3) |
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47 | (4) |
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2 The Scope of Literary Theory |
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51 | (262) |
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1 Form/Structure/Narrative/Genre |
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52 | (1) |
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Formalism and Structuralism |
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52 | (7) |
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59 | (4) |
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Chicago School Neo-Aristotelian Theory |
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63 | (5) |
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Narrative Theory/Narratology |
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68 | (7) |
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75 | (9) |
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2 Ideology/Philosophy/History/Aesthetics |
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84 | (1) |
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84 | (7) |
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91 | (10) |
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101 | (18) |
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New Historicism/Cultural Poetics |
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119 | (6) |
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125 | (17) |
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3 Language/Systems/Texts/Readers |
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142 | (1) |
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Phenomenology and Hermeneutics |
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142 | (11) |
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153 | (7) |
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160 | (7) |
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167 | (11) |
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4 Mind/Body/Gender/Identity |
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178 | (1) |
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178 | (12) |
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190 | (8) |
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198 | (6) |
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204 | (5) |
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209 | (9) |
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5 Culture/Ethnicities/Nations/Locations |
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218 | (1) |
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218 | (7) |
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225 | (6) |
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Ethnic and Indigenous Studies |
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231 | (1) |
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232 | (3) |
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Native and Indigenous Studies |
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235 | (2) |
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237 | (5) |
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242 | (12) |
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254 | (12) |
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6 People/Places/Bodies/Things |
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266 | (1) |
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266 | (12) |
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Evolutionary Literary Theory |
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278 | (5) |
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Object-Oriented Ontologies |
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283 | (7) |
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290 | (8) |
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298 | (15) |
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3 Key Figures in Literary Theory |
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313 | (48) |
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313 | (1) |
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314 | (1) |
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Louis Althusser (1918-90) |
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315 | (1) |
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) |
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316 | (1) |
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317 | (1) |
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Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) |
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318 | (1) |
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Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) |
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319 | (1) |
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320 | (1) |
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Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) |
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321 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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323 | (1) |
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324 | (1) |
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324 | (1) |
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Teresa de Lauretis (1939-) |
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325 | (1) |
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Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) and Felix Guattari (1930-92) |
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326 | (1) |
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327 | (1) |
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Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) |
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328 | (2) |
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330 | (1) |
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330 | (1) |
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331 | (1) |
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Michel Foucault (1926-84) |
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332 | (1) |
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Henry Louis Gates (1950-) |
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333 | (1) |
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Sandra Gilbert (1936-) and Susan Gubar (1944-) |
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334 | (1) |
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Stephen Greenblatt (1943-) |
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335 | (1) |
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336 | (1) |
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337 | (1) |
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338 | (1) |
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N. Katherine Hayles (1943-) |
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339 | (1) |
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340 | (1) |
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341 | (1) |
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342 | (1) |
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343 | (1) |
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344 | (1) |
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345 | (1) |
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346 | (2) |
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Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-98) |
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348 | (1) |
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349 | (1) |
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350 | (1) |
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351 | (1) |
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352 | (1) |
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) |
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353 | (1) |
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354 | (1) |
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Gayatri Chakravorty spivak (1942-) |
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355 | (1) |
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Raymond Williams (1921-88) |
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356 | (2) |
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358 | (1) |
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358 | (3) |
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4 Reading with Literary Theory |
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361 | (22) |
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William Shakespeare, The Tempest |
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362 | (2) |
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John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
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364 | (2) |
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Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre; Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea |
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366 | (4) |
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Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart |
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370 | (4) |
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Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse |
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374 | (2) |
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Zorn Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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376 | (2) |
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378 | (2) |
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Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children |
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380 | (3) |
Recommendations for Further Reading |
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383 | (9) |
Glossary |
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392 | (20) |
Index |
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