{"product_id":"the-literary-theory-handbook-isbn-9780470671955","title":"The Literary Theory Handbook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiterary Theory Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA new edition of this highly successful text, which includes updated and refined chapters, and new sections on contemporary theories\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFar reaching in its inclusion of a detailed history of theory and in-depth discussions of major theories and movements\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFour distinct perspectives on theory—historical, thematic, biographical, practical—are carefully intertwined, so that key concepts, terms and ideas are developed in different contexts and cross-referenced, in the text and in the index.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes alphabetically-arranged biographies designed for quick reference, and sample readings to illustrate the practical application of theory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlphabetical Listing of Key Movements and Theories xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nature of Literary Theory 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is Literature? 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Practice of Theory 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow To Use the Handbook 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Rise of Literary Theory 11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Developments in Literary Theory 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModernism and Formalism, 1890s–1940s 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural and Critical Theory, 1930s–1960s 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poststructuralist Turn, 1960s–1970s 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture, Gender, and History, 1980s–1990s 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostmodernism and Post-Marxism, 1980s–2000s 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePosthumanism: Theory at the Fin de Siècle 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Scope of Literary Theory 51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Form\/Structure\/Narrative\/Genre\u003c\/b\u003e 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormalism and Structuralism 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Criticism 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChicago School Neo-Aristotelian Theory 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNarrative Theory\/Narratology 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheory of the Novel 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Ideology\/Philosophy\/History\/Aesthetics\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxist Theory 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical Theory 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-Marxist Theory 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Historicism\/Cultural Poetics 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostmodernism 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Language\/Systems\/Texts\/Readers\u003c\/b\u003e 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhenomenology and Hermeneutics 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReader-Response Theory 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeconstruction 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoststructuralism 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Mind\/Body\/Gender\/Identity\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePsychoanalysis 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeminist Theory 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender Studies 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGay and Lesbian Studies 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrauma Studies 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Culture\/Ethnicities\/Nations\/Locations\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Studies 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrican American Studies 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthnic and Indigenous Studies 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChicano\/a Studies 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNative and Indigenous Studies 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAsian American Studies 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostcolonial Studies 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransnationalism 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 People\/Places\/Bodies\/Things\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePosthumanism 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvolutionary Literary Theory 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eObject-Oriented Ontologies 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisability Studies 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcocriticism 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Key Figures in Literary Theory 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheodor Adorno (1903–69) 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGiorgio Agamben (1942– ) 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLouis Althusser (1918–90) 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895–1975) 316\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoland Barthes (1915–80) 317\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean Baudrillard (1929–2007) 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalter Benjamin (1892–1940) 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomi Bhabha (1949– ) 320\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLawrence Buell (1939– ) 322\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJudith Butler (1956– ) 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHélène Cixous (1937– ) 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLennard Davis (1949– ) 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTeresa de Lauretis (1939– ) 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGilles Deleuze (1925–95) and Félix Guattari (1930–92) 326\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePaul de Man (1919–83) 327\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacques Derrida (1930–2004) 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTerry Eagleton (1943– ) 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrantz Fanon (1925–61) 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStanley Fish (1938– ) 331\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichel Foucault (1926–84) 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry Louis Gates (1950– ) 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSandra Gilbert (1936– ) and Susan Gubar (1944– ) 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Greenblatt (1943– ) 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Grosz (1952– ) 336\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStuart Hall (1932– ) 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDonna Haraway (1944– ) 338\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eN. Katherine Hayles (1943– ) 339\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ebell hooks (1952– ) 340\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLuce Irigaray (1930– ) 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWolfgang Iser (1926–2007) 342\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFredric Jameson (1934– ) 343\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJulia Kristeva (1941– ) 344\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacques Lacan (1901–81) 345\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBruno Latour (1947– ) 346\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean-François Lyotard (1924–98) 348\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJ. Hillis Miller (1928– ) 349\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAntonio Negri (1933– ) 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacques Rancière (1940– ) 351\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdward Said (1935–2003) 352\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950–2009) 353\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElaine Showalter (1941– ) 354\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942– ) 355\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaymond Williams (1921–88) 356\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCary Wolfe (1959– ) 358\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlavoj ?i?ek (1949– ) 358\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Reading with Literary Theory 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare, The Tempest 362\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea 366\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart 370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse 374\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eZora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Beckett, Endgame 378\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSalman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children 380\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecommendations for Further Reading 383\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 392\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 412\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGregory Castle\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of British and Irish literature at Arizona State University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eModernism and the Celtic Revival\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eReading the Modernist Bildungsroman\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), and \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuide to Literary Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and has  edited \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Discourses\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and the \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, vol. 1\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). He has also published numerous essays on Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, and other Irish writers.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe \u003cem style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eLiterary Theory Handbook provides the ideal starting point to the subject for students, offering clarity on the history, scope and application of literary theory, and providing four distinct entryways into this vast and varied discourse. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaising key questions about the nature of theory and literature, individual chapters offer historical, thematic, biographical, practical perspectives on theoretical concepts, ideas and modes of practice. A chapter on the historical development of theoretical movements, trends and ideas makes connections between and among theories across a century of development. Separate entries on major theories bring together similar methods or objects of study, such as Form, Structure, and Narrative, and short biographical sketches provide a handy reference for key theorists and their major works. The final section of the \u003cem style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eHandbook features brief readings of literary texts—including works by Shakespeare, Conrad, Faulkner, Beckett, and Rushdie—each informed by multiple perspectives that exemplify theoretical practice.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Gregory Castle's \u003ci\u003eLiterary Theory Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e brings his account of theory up to the minute, practically, incorporating--and relating to one another--the most significant developments in literary and cultural theory of the twenty-first century (cognitive theory, the new materialism, disability studies, ecocriticism and animal studies).  Castle does justice to the complexity of the issues he covers (his handling of deconstruction and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory is admirable), and one has to marvel at both the impartiality of his account and the lucidity of his writing, with a clear sense throughout of his audience and of what needs to be said.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Richter\u003c\/b\u003e, CUNY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Comprehensive and clear, Castle's \u003ci\u003eHandbook\u003c\/i\u003e is essential for students seeking accessible and thorough summaries of all of the schools of contemporary critical thought and analysis.  Each chapter covers a lot of material, and each is beautifully written.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Ryan\u003c\/b\u003e, Temple University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990279340261,"sku":"NP9780470671955","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470671955.jpg?v=1761787178","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-literary-theory-handbook-isbn-9780470671955","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}