Literary Theory Today - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801497612 ISBN 13: 9780801497612

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This volume assesses the current state of literary theory and examines the issues to be addressed by future research. The essays in this volume cover established theoretical perspectives and debates and also examine the changing the face of literary studies in the modern world. They include essays on reception theory, sociology and literature, modernism and post-modernism, Marxism and literature, feminist literary theory, psychoanalytic literary theory and the relevance of race and imperialism to the study of literature.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This volume assesses the current state of Literacy Theory and examines the issues to be addressed by future research. The essays cover established theoretical perspectives and debates and also examine the changing face of literacy studies in the modern world. They include: Essays on deconstruction; New historicism: Reception theory; Sociology and literature; Modernism and post modernism; Marxism and literature; Feminist literary theory; Psychoanalytic literary theory, and the relevance of race and imperialism to the study of literature.

The contributors are distinguished, internationally renowned critics, and are widely recognized as leaders in their fields. They include Homi Bhabha, Peter Burger, Stephen Greenblatt, Hans Robert Jauss, Ann Jefferson, Barbara Johnson, Sarah Kofman, Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, Elaine Showalter, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Robert Weimann and Albrecht Wellmer.

This outstanding volume will be of great interest to students and academics in literature and modern languages, linguistics, philosophy, cultural studies and women's studies.

About the Author:

Peter Collier is Lecturer in French at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.

Helga Geyer-Ryan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Amsterdam.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0801497612
• ISBN 13: 9780801497612
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 249
• Editor: Helga Geyer-Ryan, Peter Collier