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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Reading for Meaning Practical Criticism and New Criticism
• English Meaning
• Continuity or Change?
• 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 I Formalism and Early Structuralism, 1914–60
• Early Formalism
• Fabula and Syuzhet
• Folktales
• Formalism Revisited
• Further Developments
• The Axis of Combination
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• 3 Reading for Form II French Structuralism, 1950–75
• The Inevitability of Form
• Language as a System of Signs
• Anthropological Structuralism
• Binary Oppositions
• Semiology (or Semiotics)
• Literary Structuralism
• Narratology
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• 4 Political Reading Class, Gender, and Race in the 1970s and 1980s
• 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
• Readers Reading
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• Marxist Criticism
• Feminism Criticism
• African-American Criticism
• Reader-Response Criticism
• 5 The Poststructuralist Revolution Derrida and Deconstruction
• Introduction
• Poststructuralism: The Cretan Paradox and its Albany Solution
• The Poststructuralist Revolution
• The Illusion of Presence
• Absence
• Binary Oppositions Revisited
• Literary Deconstruction
• Implications
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• 6 Poststructuralism Continued Foucault, Lacan, French Feminism, and Postmodernism
• Foucauldian Power
• Panopticism
• Discourses
• Power/Knowledge
• Poststructuralist Psychoanalysis
• Lacan
• French Feminism
• Postmodernism
• Postmodern Fiction
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• 7 Literature and Culture Cultural Studies, the New Historicism, and Cultural Materialism
• Cultural Studies
• The New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
• The New Historicism
• Cultural Materialism
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• 8 Postcolonial Criticism And Theory
• Introduction
• Commonwealth Literary Studies and Eurocentrism
• From Commonwealth Literary Studies to Postcolonial Questions
• Postcolonial Studies
• Orientalism
• Colonized and Colonizer
• The Subaltern
• Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• 9 Sexuality, Literature, and Culture
• Lesbian and Gay Criticism
• Lesbian Writing
• The Production of Sexuality
• Queer Theory
• Drag and Cross-Dressing
• Suggestions For Further Reading
• 10 Posthumanism, Ecocriticism, and Animal Studies
• Posthumanism
• Representation and the World of Nature
• Dominion
• Ecocriticism and Animal Studies
• Ecocritical Realism
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• 11 Conclusion
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• Bibliography
• Index