Fifty Key Literary Theorists (Key Guides

✍ Scribed by Richard J. Lane

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Series: Routledge Key Guides
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Covering over a century's worth of debate, thinking and writing about literature, this is a unique guide to the lives and works of fifty theorists who have left an indelible mark on literary studies.
Featuring theorists such as Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud and Edward Said, this accessible guide includes:
- a glossary of terms
- full cross-referencing for maximum ease of use
- authoritative guides to further reading on and by each theorist.
An essential resource for all students of literature, Fifty Key Literary Theorists explores the gamut of critical debate, from the New Critics to the Deconstructionists, and from post-colonialism to post-Marxism and more.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
FIFTY KEY LITERARY THEORISTS......Page 10
HOUSTON A. BAKER, JR (1943– )......Page 12
MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH BAKHTIN (1895–1975)......Page 18
ROLAND BARTHES (1915–1980)......Page 24
JEAN BAUDRILLARD (1929– )......Page 29
WALTER BENJAMIN (1892–1940)......Page 34
HOMI K. BHABHA (1949– )......Page 39
HAROLD BLOOM (1930– )......Page 45
WAYNE C. BOOTH (1921– )......Page 51
JUDITH BUTLER (1956– )......Page 56
HELENE CIXOUS (1937– )......Page 61
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR (1908–1986)......Page 67
GILLES DELEUZE (1925-1995) AND PIERRE FELIX GUATTARI (1930-1992)......Page 71
PAUL (ADOLPH MICHEL) DE MAN (1919–1983)......Page 77
JACQUES DERRIDA (1930–2004)......Page 82
TERRY (TERRENCE FRANCIS) EAGLETON (1943- )......Page 87
(SIR) WILLIAM EMPSON (1906–1984)......Page 92
FRANTZ OMAR FANON (1925–1961)......Page 96
SHOSHANA FELMAN (1942– )......Page 100
STANLEY EUGENE FISH (1938– )......Page 105
(PAUL-)MICHEL FOUCAULT (1920–1984)......Page 109
SIGMUND FREUD (1856–1939)......Page 115
NORTHROP FRYE (1912–1991)......Page 120
HANS-GEORG GADAMER (1900–2003)......Page 125
HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR (1950– )......Page 129
GERARD GENETTE (1930– )......Page 135
SANDRA MORTOLA GILBERT (1936- ) AND SUSAN DAVID GUBAR (1944- )......Page 141
PAUL GILROY (1956– )......Page 146
STEPHEN GREENBLATT (1943– )......Page 151
DONNA J. HARAWAY (1944– )......Page 155
GEOFFREY H. HARTMAN (1929– )......Page 161
LINDA HUTCHEON (1947– )......Page 167
LUCE IRIGARAY (1934– )......Page 172
WOLFGANG ISER (1926– )......Page 177
ROMAN OSIPOVISCH JAKOBSON (1896–1982)......Page 181
FREDRIC R. JAMESON (1934– )......Page 186
(SIR) FRANK KERMODE (1919– )......Page 190
JULIA KRISTEVA (1941– )......Page 196
JACQUES-MARIE EMILE LACAN (1901–1981)......Page 201
FRANK RAYMOND LEAVIS (1895–1978)......Page 207
GEORG (GYORGY) LUKACS (1885–1971)......Page 212
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD (1924–1998)......Page 216
HERBERT MARSHALL McLUHAN (1911–1980)......Page 222
VLADIMIR IAKOVLEVICH PROPP (1895–1970)......Page 228
IVOR ARMSTRONG RICHARDS (1893–1979)......Page 232
PAUL RICOEUR (1913– )......Page 237
EDWARD WADIE SAID (1935–2003)......Page 243
ELAINE SHOWALTER (1941– )......Page 249
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK (1942– )......Page 255
LIONEL TRILLING (1905–1975)......Page 260
SLAVOJ ZIZEK (1949– )......Page 264
INDEX......Page 272

✦ Subjects

Литературоведение;История литературоведения;