The Future of Literary Theory
豆瓣
Edited By Ralph Cohen
简介
In this book, first published in 1989, twenty-give eminent critics and theorists write about different aspects of literary theory. These essays represent leading research in psychoanalytic criticism, new historicism, Continental theory, feminism, Afro-American studies, philosophy, cybernetics, aesthetics, and other theoretical inflections. The result is a collective statement on the course that lies ahead for criticism in the humanities, and will be of interest to students of literary theory.
目录
Introduction / Ralph Cohen
1. From the Scene of the Unconscious to the Scene of History / Hélène Cixous
2. "Figuring the Nature of the Times Deceased": Literary Theory and Historical Writing / Hayden White
3. Historical Worlds, Literary History / Brian Stock
4. Perceptive Equilibrium: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory / Martha Nussbaum
5. The State of the Art of Criticism / Geoffrey H. Hartman
6. The Function of Literary Theory at the Present Time / J. Hillis Miller
7. Historia Calamitatum et Fortunarum Mearum or: A Paradigm Shift in Literary Study / Hans Robert Jauss
8. Woolf’s Room, Our Project: The Building of Feminist Criticism / Catherine R. Stimpson
9. The Mirror and the Vamp: Reflections on Feminist Criticism / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
10. Literary Genres and Textual Genericity / Jean-Marie Schaeffer
11. The Sense of an Answer: Ambiguities of Interpretation in Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis / Roy Schafer
12. Towards a Literary Anthropology / Wolfgang Iser
13. The Future of Theory: Saving the Reader / Christopher Butler
14. The Future of Theory in the Teaching of Literature / Gerald Graff
15. Paul de Man’s Contribution to Literary Criticism and Theory / Jonathan Culler
16. The Future of an Illusion / Rosalind Krauss
17. The Future of Genre Theory: Functions and Constructional Types / Alastair Fowler
18. Mystory: The Law of Idiom in Applied Grammatology / Gregory L. Ulmer
19. Authority, (White) Power, and the (Black) Critic; or, it’s all Greek to Me / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
20. A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory / Elaine Showalter
21. Beautiful Science and the Future of Criticism / Arthur C. Danto
22. Computers, Literary Theory, and Theory of Meaning / Gregory G. Colomb and Mark Turner
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