A Readers Guide To Contemporary Literary Theory 5th Edition Raman Selden Peter Widdowson Peter Brooker by Raman Selden; Peter Widdowson; Peter Brooker 9780582894105, 0582894107 instant download after payment.

The fifth edition of this reader's guide remains true to the ideals of previous editions, providing a concise guide to contemporary literary theories. The book covers a vast range of differing forms of English literature.
Content: New criticism, moral formalism, and F.R. Leavis --
Origins : Eliot, Richards, Empson --
The American new critics --
Moral formalism : F.R. Leavis --
Russian formalism and the Bahktin School --
Shklovsky, Mukařovský, Jakobson --
The Bakhtin School --
Reader-oriented theories --
Phenomenology : Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer --
Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser --
Fish, Riffaterre, Bleich --
Structuralist theories --
The linguistic background --
Structuralist narratology --
Metaphor and metonymy --
Structuralist poetics --
Marxist theories --
Soviet socialist realism --
Lukács and Brecht --
The Frankfurt School and after : Adorno and Benjamin --
"Structuralist" Marxism : Goldmann, Althusser, Macherey --
"New Left" Marxism : Williams, Eagleton, Jameson --
Feminist theories --
First-wave feminist criticism : Woolf and de Beauvoir --
Second-wave feminist criticism --
Kate Millett : sexual politics --
Marxist feminism --
Elaine Showalter : gynocriticism --
French feminism : Kristeva, Cixous, Irigaray --
Poststructuralist theories --
Roland Barthes --
Psychoanalytic theories --
Jacques Lacan --
Julia Kristeva --
Deleuze and Guattari --
Deconstruction : Jacques Derrida --
American deconstruction --
Michel Foucault --
New historicism and cultural materialism --
Postmodernist theories --
Jean Baudrillard --
Jean-François Lyotard --
Postmodernism and Marxism --
Postmodern feminisms --
Postcolonialist theories --
Edward Said --
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak --
Homi K. Bhabha --
Race and ethnicity --
Gay, lesbian, and queer theories --
Gay theory and criticism --
Lesbian feminist theory and criticism --
Queer theory and criticism --
Post-theory.
Abstract: Provides an introduction to the field of modern literary theory. Students are introduced to New Criticism, Reader-Response Theory, Marxist Criticism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Post-Modernism and Feminism, as well as to Cultural Materialism and New Historicism, Postcolonialism and Gay, Lesbian and Queer Theory.