Literature in the modern world : critical essays and documents/

"Literature in the Modern World offers a unique combination of English, European, American, and post-colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight the development of debates, it is designed to engage newcomers to the...

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Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Edition:2nd rev. ed.
Subjects:
Modern -- Literatures -- Western influences. > History and criticism. > 20th century > Developing countries --
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. General Approaches
  • I. Questioning the 'Canon'
  • 1. Repossessing the Past: The Case for an Open Literary History / Marilyn Butler
  • 2. Canon and Period / Frank Kermode
  • 3. Literature and the Rise of English / Terry Eagleton
  • 4. Women Poets / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
  • 5. Literary Theory and the Black Tradition / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • II. Interpretation
  • 1. The Babel of Interpretations / E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
  • 2. Interpreting the Variorum / Stanley Fish
  • 3. Who Cares About the Text? / Robert Scholes
  • 4. Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory / Hans Robert Jauss
  • 5. The Interpreter's Freud / Geoffrey Hartman
  • III. Commitment
  • 1. To Cambridge Women / Virginia Woolf
  • 2. Writing, Reading, and the Public / Jean-Paul Sartre
  • 3. Commitment / Theodor Adorno
  • 4. Right and Wrong Political Uses of Literature / Italo Calvino
  • pt. 2. Themes and Issues
  • I. Form and Genre
  • 1. Story and Narrative / Seymour Chatman
  • 2. Semiotics of Theatrical Performance / Umberto Eco
  • 3. The Signs of Drama / Martin Esslin
  • 4. Close Reading / John Barrell
  • II. Modernisms
  • 1. Remarks on Poetry / Paul Valery
  • 2. Order in Narrative / Gerard Genette
  • 3. Towards a Semiotics of Literature / Robert Scholes
  • 4. The Ideology of Modernism / Georg Lukacs
  • 5. Modernism and the Metropolis / Raymond Williams
  • 6. The Gender of Modernism / Bonnie Kime Scott
  • III. Literature and Nation
  • 1. Beyond a Boundary / C.L.R. James
  • 2. Woman and Nationalism / Virginia Woolf
  • 3. The Intimate Enemy / Ashis Nandy
  • 4. The National Longing for Form / Timothy Brennan
  • 5. Imaginary Homelands / Salman Rushdie
  • IV. Literature and Ideology
  • 1. A Short Organum for the Theatre / Bertolt Brecht
  • 2. Marxist Criticism / Terry Eagleton
  • 3. The Text Says What it Does Not Say / Pierre Macherey
  • 4. The Death of the Author / Roland Barthes
  • 5. What is an Author? / Michel Foucault
  • V. Literature and Gender
  • 1. Woman and the Other / Simone de Beauvoir
  • 2. Language and Gender / Cora Kaplan
  • 3. The Laugh of the Medusa / Helene Cixous
  • 4. Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation / Toni Morrison
  • 5. Introduction to Between Men / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  • 6. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire / Judith Butler
  • VI. End of Empire
  • 1. The Discourse of the Orient / Edward Said
  • 2. Englands of the Mind / Seamus Heaney
  • 3. Behind the Cliches of Contemporary Theatre / John McGrath
  • 4. From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador / Mary Louise Pratt
  • VII. From Commonwealth to Post-Colonial
  • 1. On National Culture / Frantz Fanon
  • 2. Colonialist Criticism / Chinua Achebe
  • 3. History of the Voice / Edward Kamau Brathwaite
  • 4. Post-Colonial Reconstructions: Literature, Meaning, Value / Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin
  • 5. The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term 'Post-Colonialism' / Anne McClintock
  • 6. When Was 'the Post-Colonial'? Thinking at the Limit / Stuart Hall
  • VIII. Literature and History
  • 1. Theses on the Philosophy of History / Walter Benjamin
  • 2. History and Fiction / Laurence Lerner
  • 3. Introduction to Metahistory / Hayden White
  • 4. The Text, the Poem, and the Problem of Historical Method / Jerome McGann
  • 5. The Keening Muse / Joseph Brodsky
  • 6. The Hollow Miracle / George Steiner
  • 7. Literary History and Literary Modernity / Paul de Man
  • IX. Literature and Value
  • 1. What is a Classic? / T.S. Eliot
  • 2. The Exile of Evaluation / Barbara Herrnstein Smith.

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