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This helpful guide serves as an introduction to contemporary literary theory.

Table of Contents

Preface
A
Theodor W. Adorno
African American Theory and Criticism
1. Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement
2. 1977 to 1990
3. The 1990s
Giorgio Agamben
B
Alain Badiou
Mikhail Bakhtin
Étienne Balibar
Roland Barthes
Georges Bataille
Jean Baudrillard
Simone de Beauvoir
Walter Benjamin
Homi K. Bhabha
Maurice Blanchot
Pierre Bourdieu
Judith Butler
C
Michel de Certeau
Hélène Cixous
Cultural Studies
1. United Kingdom
2. United States
3. Australia
4. Canada
D
Paul de Man
Deconstruction
1. Derrida, de Man, and the Yale Critics
2. The 1980s and After
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Jacques Derrida
Discourse
1. Discourse Analysis
2. Discourse Theory
E
Terry Eagleton
Ecocriticism
Ethics
F
Frantz Fanon
Feminist Theory and Criticism
1. From Movement Critique to Discourse Analysis
2. Anglo-American Feminisms
3. Poststructuralist Feminisms
4. Materialist Feminisms
5. 1990 and After
Stanley Fish
Michel Foucault
Frankfurt School
French Theory and Criticism: 1945 and After
Sigmund Freud
Northrop Frye
G
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Gender
Paul Gilroy
Globalization
Antonio Gramsci
Stephen Greenblatt
H
Stuart Hall
Donna Haraway
Martin Heidegger
I
Luce Irigaray
J
Fredric Jameson
K
Julia Kristeva
L
Jacques Lacan
Law and Literature
Emmanuel Levinas
Linguistics and Language
Georg Lukács
Jean-François Lyotard
M
Marxist Theory and Criticism
1. Classical Marxism
2. Structuralist Marxism
3. 1989 and After
Modernist Theory and Criticism
Franco Moretti
Multiculturalism
N
Jean-Luc Nancy
Narratology
National Literature
Native Theory and Criticism
1. United States
2. Canada
New Historicism
P
Phenomenology
Postcolonial Studies
1. Origins to the 1980s
2. 1990 and After
Postmodernism
Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism
1. Traditional Freudian Criticism
2. Reconceptualizing Freud
3. The Post-Lacanians
Q
Queer Theory and Criticism
1. Gay Male
2. Lesbian
3. Queer Theory
R
Race and Ethnicity
Jacques Rancière
Reader-Response Criticism
Reception Theory
S
Edward W. Said
Ferdinand de Saussure
Science Studies
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Semiotics
Speech Acts
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Structuralism
W
Raymond Williams
Z
Slavoj Zizek
List of Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Topics

About the Author

Michael Groden is a distinguished university professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Martin Kreiswirth is a professor of English and associate provost, dean of graduate and postdoctoral studies at McGill University. Imre Szeman is a professor of English and film studies and Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.

Reviews

The very thoroughness and high quality of each entry, as well as attentive editing, are what makes The Johns Hopkins Guide to Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory an essential tool for anyone looking for an at once in-depth and accessible study of some of the major concepts of literary thory today. -- Alice Braun Cercles Groden, Kreiswirth, and Szeman have compiled a desktop, ready-reference tool that is readable, informative, and complete according to the parameters that they established for the work. -- Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic Reference Reviews