{"product_id":"modern-literary-criticism-and-theory-isbn-9781405176668","title":"Modern Literary Criticism and Theory","description":"Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century along with a close analysis of some of the most important and commonly taught texts from the period. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an accessible introduction to modern literary theory and criticism\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePlaces various modes of criticism within their historical and intellectual contexts\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers close readings of some of the major critical texts of the period\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the works of a diverse group of 20th-century writers, including Babbitt, Woolf, Bakhtin, Heidegger, Lacan, Derrida, Judith Butler, Zizek, Nussbaum, Negri and Hardt\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers formalism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, reader-response criticism, historicism, gender studies, cultural studies, and film theory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormative Moments in the History of Literary Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Backgrounds of Modern Criticism and Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Scope of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. The First Decades: From Liberal Humanism to Formalism\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Humanists, Neo-Romantics, and Precursors of Formalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Background of Modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poetics of Modernism: W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormalism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRussian Formalism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoris Eichenbaum (1886–1959).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMikhail M. Bakhtin (1895–1975).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoman Jakobson (1896–1982).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Criticism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Crowe Ransom (1888–1974).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam K. Wimsatt, Jr. (1907–1975) and Monroe C. Beardsley (1915–1985).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Socially Conscious Criticism of the Earlier Twentieth Century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eF. R. Leavis (1895–1978) and Scrutiny.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxist and Left-Wing Criticism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocialist Criticism in Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fundamental Principles of Marxism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxist Literary Criticism: A Historical Overview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Feminist Criticism: Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf (1882–1941).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimone de Beauvoir (1908–1986).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Criticism and Theory After the Second World War\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdmund Husserl (1859–1938) and Phenomenology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartin Heidegger (1889–1976) and Existentialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorges Bataille (1897–1962) and Heterology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructuralism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFerdinand de Saussure (1857–1913).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoland Barthes (1915–1980).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. The Era of Poststructuralism (I): Later Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLater Marxist Criticism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTerry Eagleton (b. 1943).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePsychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSigmund Freud (1856–1939).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacques Lacan (1901–1981).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacques Derrida (1930–2004) and Deconstruction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. The Era of Poststructuralism (II): Postmodernism, Modern Feminism, Gender Studies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostmodernism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJürgen Habermas (b. 1929).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean Baudrillard (1929–2007).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean-François Lyotard (1924–1998).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ebell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins; b. 1952).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Feminism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrench Feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBritish Feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJulia Kristeva (b. 1941).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHélène Cixous (b. 1937).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender Studies:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGayle Rubin (b. 1949).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEve Kosofsky Sedgwick (b. 1950).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJudith Butler (b. 1956).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. The Later Twentieth Century: New Historicism, Reader-Response Theory, and Postcolonial Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Historicism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichel Foucault (1926–1984).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReader-Response and Reception Theory:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWolfgang Iser (b. 1926).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStanley Fish (b. 1938).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostcolonial Criticism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdward Said (1935–2004).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGayatri Chakravorty Spivak (b. 1942).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomi K. Bhabha (b. 1949).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr. (b. 1950).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Cultural Studies and Film Theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Studies:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaymond Williams (1921–1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStuart Hall (b. 1932).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDick Hebdige (b. 1951).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Fiske.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan Bordo (b. 1947).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilm Theory:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrew Sarris (b. 1928) and Auteur Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJim Kitses: The Study of Genre.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian Metz (1931–1993): A Psychoanalytic Perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaura Mulvey (b. 1941): Feminist Film Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Contemporary Directions: The Return of the Public Intellectual.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Liberalism: Martha Nussbaum, Elaine Scarry, John Carey:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartha Nussbaum (b. 1947).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElaine Scarry (b. 1946).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Carey (b. 1934).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Aestheticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Theorists of Revolution: Žižek, Hardt, Negri.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlavoj Žižek (b. 1949).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichael Hardt and Antonio Negri: The Concept of Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: The Myth of Liberal Humanism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  “Lucid, wide-ranging, erudite and packed with insights, Rafey Habib’s survey of modern criticism and theory has something for both the tenderfoot and the old-timer. Students everywhere will find it indispensable.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTerry Eagleton, University of Manchester\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Those who want to know where literary critics may be going should have this.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eM.A.R. Habib \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. He received his D.Phil. in English from Oxford University, and is the author of five books, including \u003ci\u003eA History of Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2005).  \u003ci\u003eModern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive account of modern criticism and theory available in the English language. It provides a historical survey of the various modes of literary criticism developed in the twentieth century. It is distinguished from other texts in the field not only by providing the larger historical contexts of modern critical works, but also by engaging in close readings of some of the major and commonly taught texts, offering clear, detailed, and philosophically informed explanations of difficult works.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis broadly chronological narrative explores the works of a diverse group of twentieth-century writers – from Irving Babbitt and T. S. Eliot through Simone de Beauvoir and Martin Heidegger to Jacques Derrida, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek, and Elaine Scarry. It stresses the continuity and connections between the various critical approaches of formalism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, gender studies, reader-response and reception theory, historicism, cultural studies, and film theory, as well as the new emphases on aestheticism and liberalism. An invaluable resource for students and teachers at all levels, this book will also appeal to anyone interested in modern literature and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989642428645,"sku":"NP9781405176668","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405176668.jpg?v=1761784928","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/modern-literary-criticism-and-theory-isbn-9781405176668","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}