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• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Reading for meaning: Practical criticism and New Criticism
• English meaning
• An unchanging human condition?
• Liberal humanism
• Literature as civilization’s last stance
• Arnold’s academic heritage: the English scene
• Cambridge, England
• The novel as great art
• Meaning in the United States
• The reign of the critics and its limitations
• Suggestions for further reading
• 2. Reading for form and function: Formalism and early structuralism, 1914–1960
• Introduction
• Early formalism
• Fabula and syuzhet
• Folk tales
• Formalism revisited
• Further developments
• The axis of combination
• Suggestions for further reading
• 3. Reading for form: French structuralism, 1950–1975
• The inevitability of form
• Language as a system of signs
• Anthropological structuralism
• Binary oppositions
• Semiology or semiotics: the study of signs
• Literary structuralism
• Narratology
• Reading the reader – a brief excursion
• Suggestions for further reading
• 4. Political reading: Class, gender, and race in the 1970s and 1980s
• Introduction
• The politics of class: Marxism
• Ideology
• Hegemony
• Marxist literary studies
• Bakhtin
• The politics of gender: feminism
• Feminist literary studies
• Gender
• The woman as writer
• Marxist feminism
• The politics of race
• African-American literary studies
• Suggestions for further reading
• Marxist criticism
• Feminist criticism
• African-American criticism
• 5. The poststructuralist revolution
• Poststructuralism
• Deconstruction
• Binary oppositions, revisited
• Literary deconstruction
• Implications
• Foucauldian power
• The Panopticon
• Discourses
• Poststructuralism and psychoanalysis
• Lacan
• French feminism
• Postmodern criticism
• Suggestions for further reading
• 6. Literature and culture: Cultural studies, the new historicism, cultural materialism
• Cultural studies
• The new historicism and cultural materialism
• The new historicism
• Cultural materialism
• Suggestions for further reading
• 7. Postcolonial criticism and theory
• Introduction
• Commonwealth literary studies and Eurocentrism
• Postcolonial studies
• Orientalism
• Colonized and colonizer
• The subaltern
• Postcolonial studies in the twenty-first century
• Suggestions for further reading
• 8. Sexuality, literature, culture, and queer studies
• Lesbian and gay criticism
• Lesbian writing
• The production of sexuality
• Queer theory
• Suggestions for further reading
• 9. Decentring the human: Posthumanism, ecocriticism, new materialism, animal studies
• Posthumanism
• Representation and the world of nature
• Dominion
• Ecocriticism
• Ecocritical realism
• The Anthropocene
• A final word: animal studies
• Suggestions for further reading
• 10. ‘Theory’, post-Theory, new challenges
• Looking back on ‘Theory’: identitarian criticism
• The subject
• Agency
• Trauma studies and affect theory
• Beyond Theory?
• Cognitive literary studies and world literature
• Digital humanities
• Print culture studies
• Media studies
• Final and inconclusive words
• Suggestions for further reading
• Bibliography
• Index