Literary Theory and Criticism

THES The quality of essays is consistently high, with outstanding contributions by Timothy Clark on hermeneutics, Chris Baldick on criticism and the academy, Chris Snipp-Walmsley on post-modernism, and Sean Burke on the responsibilities of the writer.

<br>Patricia Waugh has published extensively in the field of modern fiction and criticism. She is the author of The Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Backgrounds (1995) and Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature (1997). She has also edited a number of collections and anthologies of modern literary theory and postmodernism, most recently The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (with David Fuller).<br>

PART 1; PHILOSOPHICAL AND AESTHETIC ORIGINS; 1. Literature and the Problem of Representation; 2. Canons and Values; 3. The Romantic Author; 4. Hermeneutics; PART 2; TWENTIETH CENTURY CRITICS AND CRITICISM; 5. Literature and the Academy; 6. TS Eliot and the Idea of Tradition; 7. FR Leavis, Scrutiny and the Idea of Mass Society; 8. Literature and Myth; 9. Freud and Psychoanalysis; 10. Virginia Woolf; 11. Adorno and the Frankfurt School; 12. Marxist Aesthetics; 13. Cultural Studies after Leavis; 14. Practical Criticism in England; 15. The New Criticism; 16. William Empson and Ambiguity; 17. The Russian Debate on Narrative; 18. The Intentional Fallacy; 19. Rhetoric, reading and intellectual history; 20. Bakhtin and the ideal of a dialogue poetics; 21. Linguistic Criticism; PART 3; MODERN LITERARY THEORY; 22. Structuralism and Narratology; 23. Deconstruction; 24. Feminisms; 25. Sexual Identities; 26. Reconstructing History; 27. Postcolonialism; 28. Race, Nation and Ethnicity; 29. Psychoanalysis; 30. Postmodernism; PART 4; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; 31. Environmentalism and Eco-Criticism; 32. Cognitive Literary Criticism; 33. Criticism and Science Wars; 34. Theories of the Gaze; 35. Mixing Memory and Desire; 36. Criticism and Authorial Experience; 37. Foreign Bodies and Border-Guards; 38. The Writing of Excess; 39. Performing Literacy Interpretation