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Acknowledgments Alphabetical Listing of Key Movements and Theories
Introduction The Nature of Literary Theory
What is Literature? The Practice of Theory
How To Use the Handbook

1 The Rise of Literary Theory Early Developments in Literary Theory Modernism and Formalism, 1890s-1940s Cultural and Critical Theory, 1930s-1960s The Poststructuralist Turn, 1960s-1970s Culture, Gender, and History, 1980s-1990s Postmodernism and Post-Marxism, 1980s-2000s Posthumanism: Theory at the Fin de Siecle
Conclusion

2 The Scope of Literary Theory

1 Form/Structure/Narrative/Genre
Formalism and Structuralism
New Criticism Chicago School Neo-Aristotelian Theory Narrative Theory/Narratology Theory of the Novel

2 Ideology/Philosophy/History/Aesthetics Marxist Theory Critical Theory Post-Marxist Theory New Historicism/Cultural Poetics
Postmodernism
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3 Language/Systems/Texts/Readers Phenomenology and Hermeneutics Reader-Response Theory
Deconstruction
Poststructuralism

4 Mind/Body/Gender/Identity Psychoanalysis Feminist Theory
Gender Studies Gay and Lesbian Studies
Trauma Studies

5 Culture/Ethnicities/Nations/Locations
Cultural Studies African American Studies Ethnic and Indigenous Studies
Chicanofa Studies Native and Indigenous Studies
Asian American Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Transnationalism 6 People/Places/Bodies/Things
Posthumanism Evolutionary Literary Theory Object-Oriented Ontologies Disability Studies
Ecocriticism
Key Figures in Literary Theory Theodor Adorno (1903-69) Giorgio Agamben (1942-) Louis Althusser (1918-90) Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (189S-1975) Roland Barthes (1915-80) Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) Homi Bhabha (1949-) Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Latvrence Buell (1939-) Judith Butler (1956-) Helene Cixous (1937-) Lennard Davis (1949-) Teresa de Lauretis (1939-) Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) and Felix Guattari (1930-92) Paul de Man (1919-83) Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) Terry Eagleton (1943-)
Frantz Fanon (1925-61) Stanley Fish (1938-)
Michel Foucault (1926-84) Henry Louis Gates (19SO-) Sandra Gilbert (1936-) and Susan Gubar (1944-) Stephen Greenblatt (1943-) Elizabeth Grosz (1952-) Stuart Hall (1932-) Donna Haraway (1944- ) N. Katherine Hayles (1943-) bell hooks (19S2-) Luce Irigaray (1930-) Wolfgang Iser (1926-2007) Fredric Jameson (1934-) Julia Kristeva (1941-) Jacques Lacan (1901-81) Bruno Latour (1947- ) Jean-Frangois Lyotard (1924-98) J. Hillis Miller (1928-) Antonio Negri (1933-) Jacques Ranciere (1940-) Edward Said (193S-2003) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) Elaine Showalter (1941-) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942-) Raymond Williams (1921-88) Gary Wolfe (1959-) Slavoj ftizek (1949-)


4 Reading with Literary Theory William Shakespeare, The Tempest John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre; Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Virginia Wqolf, To the Lighthouse Zx>ra Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Samuel Beckett, Endgame Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Recommendations for Further Reading Glossary
Index