Literary Theory

Julie Rivkin is Professor of English at Connecticut College, USA, where she teaches on American literature, contemporary women writers, and literary theory. She is the author of False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James's Fiction (1996). With Michael Ryan, she is the author of Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction(Wiley Blackwell, 3rd edition, 2016).
 
Michael Ryan is Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University, USA. He is the author of several books, two novels, and co-editor of the journal Politics and Culture. With Julie Rivkin, he is the author of Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction (Wiley Blackwell, 3rd edition, 2016).

The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics.
* Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to Postcolonialism
* Expanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant.
* Pedagogically enhanced with detailed editorial introductions and a comprehensive glossary of terms

Preface ix
 
A Short History of Theory xi
 
Part One Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Poetics
 
1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Formalisms 3
 
2 Viktor Shklovsky, Art as Technique 8
 
3 Cleanth Brooks, The Formalist Critics 15
 
4 Cleanth Brooks, Keats' Sylvan Historian: History Without the Footnotes 21
 
5 Monroe Beardsley and W. K. Wimsatt, The Intentional Fallacy 29
 
6 Sean O' Sullivan, Broken on Purpose: Poetry, Serial Television, and the Season 42
 
7 Herman Rapaport, Tools for Reading Poetry 55
 
8 Theory in Practice: Michael Holahan, "Look, Her Lips": Softness of Voice, Construction of Character in King Lear 80
 
9 Theory in Practice: C. K. Doreski, Romantic Rhetorics (from Elizabeth Bishop: The Restraints of Language) 105
 
Part Two Structuralism, Linguistics, Narratology
 
1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, The Implied Order: Structuralism 131
 
2 Jonathan Culler, The Linguistic Foundation 134
 
3 Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics 137
 
4 Claude Lévi?]Strauss, The Structural Study of Myth 178
 
5 Roland Barthes, Mythologies 196
 
6 Mikhail Bakhtin, Discourse in the Novel 205
 
7 Michel Foucault, What Is an Author? 217
 
8 David Herman, Scripts, Sequences, and Stories: Elements of a Postclassical Narratology 230
 
9 Michael Newman, From Beats to Arcs: Towards a Poetics of Television Narrative 248
 
10 Theory in Practice: Bridget Gellert Lyons, The Subplot as Simplification in King Lear 270
 
11 Theory in Practice: Susan Lohafer, The Stories of "Passion": An Empirical Study 283
 
Part Three Phenomenology, Reception, Ethics
 
1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Situations of Knowledge/Relations with Others 297
 
2 Immanuel Kant, Transcendental Aesthetic 299
 
3 Georges Poulet, The Phenomenology of Reading 305
 
4 Kathleen McCormick, Teaching, Studying, and Theorizing the Production and Reception of Literary Texts 318
 
5 Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction 331
 
6 Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and the Face 348
 
7 Kuisma Korhonen, Levinas and Literary Interpretation: Facing Baudelaire's "Eyes of the Poor" 366
 
8 Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity: The Narrative Imagination 382
 
9 Theory in Practice: Kent Lehnhof, Relation and Responsibility: A Levinasian Reading of King Lear 402
 
10 Theory in Practice: Naomi Morgenstern, The Baby or the Violin: Ethics and Femininity in the Fiction of Alice Munro 422
 
Part Four Post-Structuralism
 
1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan,
 
The Class of 1968 - Post?]Structuralism par lui?]même 445
 
2 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power 466
 
3 Gilles Deleuze, What Is Becoming? 471
 
4 Jacques Derrida, Différance 474
 
5 Jacques Derrida, That Dangerous Supplement 496
 
6 Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author 518
 
7 Roland Barthes, From Work to Text 522
 
8 Barbara Johnson, Writing 528
 
9 Theory in Practice: John Joughin, Lear's After?]Life 536
 
10 Theory in Practice: Miriam Marty Clark, Allegories of Reading in Alice Munro's "Carried Away" 555
 
Part Five Psychoanalysis and Psychology
 
1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Strangers to Ourselves: Psychoanalysis 567
 
2 Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams 575
 
3 Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny 592
 
4 Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego 615
 
5 Jacques Lacan, The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience 618
 
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