Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory

JULIAN WOLFREYS is Associate Professor in the department of English at the University of Florida, UK.

"The book's value lies in the depth and range of its entries as essential points of view and issues are clarified and areas for further research and study are suggested. The upper-level undergraduate and the graduate student will benefit from the overviews and analysis presented in each entry...Written with clarity and presented with the necessary detail to cover each topic, the technical jargon within each entry can easily be overcome by referring to the glossary for explanations and the index for cross-referencing...this reviewer, highly recommends this book to the serious student."

• ForewordPart I Critical Discourse in EuropeRene Descartes and Baruch Spinoza: Beginnings Warren Montag, Occidental CollegeImmanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Jacques Lazra, University of Wisconsin-MadisonJohann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin Véronique M. Fóti, Pennsylvania State UniversityKarl Marx Robert C. Holub, University of California, BerkeleyCharles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé Elizabeth Constable, University of California, DavisFriedrich Nietzsche Robert C. Holub, University of California, BerkeleySigmund Freud Juliet Flower MacCannell, University of California, IrvineFerdinand de Saussure and Structural Linguistics Kenneth Womack, Pennsylvania State University, AltoonaEdmund Husserl Claire Colebrook, Stirling UniversityPhenomenology Ullrich Michael Haase, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityGaston Bachelard and George Canguilhem: Epistemology in France Alison Ross, Monash University, and Amir Ahmadi, University of SydneyJean Paulhan and/versus Francis Ponge Jan Baetens, Katholieke universiteit, LeuvenGyörgy Lukács Mitchell R. Lewis, Oklahoma UniversityRussian Formalism, the Moscow Linguistics Circle, and Prague Structuralism: Boris Eichenbaum, Jan Mukarovsky, Victor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynyanov, Roman Jakobson Kenneth Womack, Pennsylvania State University, AltoonaLudwig Wittgenstein William Flesch, Brandeis UniversityMartin Heidegger Claire Colebrook, Stirling UniversityAntonio Gramsci Stephen Shapiro, University of WarwickWalter Benjamin Jeremy Tambling, Hong Kong UniversityReception Theory: Roman Ingarden, Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Geneva School Luke Ferretter, Wolfson College, CambridgeThe Frankfurt School, the Marxist Tradition, Culture and Critical Thinking: Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Jürgen Habermas Kenneth Surin, Duke UniversityMikhail Bakhtin R. Brandon Kershner, University of FloridaGeorges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue UniversityBertolt Brecht Loren Kruger, University of ChicagoJacques Lacan Juliet Flower MacCannell, University of California, IrvineThe Reception of Hegel and Heidegger in France: Alexandre Kojève, John Hyppolite, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty Jean Michel Rabaté, University of PennsylvaniaJean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Existentialism Mark Currie, Anglia Polytechnic UniversityEmmanuel Levinas Kevin Hart, Monash UniversitySimone de Beauvoir and French Feminism Karen Green, Monash UniversityClaude Lévi-Strauss Boris Wiseman, Durham UniversityJean Genet Alain-Michel Rocheleau, Univeristy of British ColumbiaPaul Ricoeur Martin McQuillan, Leeds UiveristyRoland Barthes Nick Mansfield, University of MelbourneFrench Structuralism: A. J. Greimas, Tzvetan Todorov and Gérard Genette Dirk de Geest, Katholieke universiteit, LeuvenLouis Althusser and his Circle Warren Montag, Occidental CollegeReception Theory and Reader-Response (I): Hans-Robert Jauss, Wolfgang Iser, and the School of Konstanz Jeremy Lane, University of SussexJean-François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard: The Suspicion of Metanarratives Garry Leonard, Univeristy of TorontoThe Social and the Cultural: Michel de Certeau, Pierre Bourdieu and Louis Marin Brian Niro, De Paul UniversityGilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari Claire Colebrook, Stirling UniversityMichel Foucault John Brannigan, Queen's University, Belfast Jacques Derrida Kevin Hart, Monash UniversityLuce Irigaray Ewa Ziarek, Notre Dame UniversityChristian Metz Marcia Butzel, Clark UniversityGuy Debord and the Situationist International Lynn A. Higgins, Dartmouth CollegeUmberto Eco SunHee Kim Gertz, Clark UniversityModernities: Paul Virilio, Gianni Vattimo, Giorgio Agamben David Punter, Bristol UniversityHélène Cixous Juliet Flower MacCannell, University of California, IrvinePhilippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy Heesok Chang, Vassar CollegeJulia Kristeva Joan Brandt, Claremont CollegesSlavoj Zizek Michael Walsh, University of HartfordCahiers du Cinéma Maureen Turim, University of FloridaCritical Fictions: Experiments in Writing from Le Noveau Roman to the Oulipo Jean Baetens, Katholieke universiteit, LeuvenTel Quel Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of PennsylvaniaOther French Feminisms: Sarah Kofman, Monique Wittig, Michèle Le Doeuff Nicole Fluhr, University of MichiganPsychoanalytic Literary Criticism in France Nicholas T. Rand, University of Wisconsin-MadisonPart II Theories and Practice of Criticism in North AmericaCharles Sanders Peirce and Semiotics Kenneth Womack, Pennsylvania State University, AltoonaThe New Criticism Charles Altieri, University of California, BerkeleyThe Chicago School William Baker, Northern Illinois UniversityNorthrop Frye Imre Salusinszky, University of Newcastle, AustraliaThe Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism Mark Currie, Anglia Polytechnic UniversityReception Theory and Reader-Response (II): Norman Holland, Stanley Fish and David Bleich Jeremy Lane, University of SussexThe Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, Paul de Man Ortwin de Graef, Katholieke universiteit, LeuvenDeconstruction of America William Flesch, Brandeis UniversityFredric Jameson and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism Carolyn Lesjak, Swarthmore CollegeEdward W. Said John Kucich, University of MichiganAmerican Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism Ruth Robbins, University College, NorthamptonFeminisms in the 1980s and 1990s: The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies Megan Becker-Leckrone, University of Nevada, Las VegasPsychoanalysis and Literary Criticism Megan Becker-Leckrone, University of Nevada, Las VegasFeminists of Color Anne Donadey, San Diego State UniversityStephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark UniversityLesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Theory David Van Leer, University of California, DavisPostcolonial Studies Malini Johar Schueller, University of FloridaCultural Studies and Multiculturalism Marcel Cornis-Pope, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAfrican-American Studies Yun Hsing Wu, Indiana UniversityChicano/a Literature Amelia Mariá de la Luz Montes, University of Nebraska, LincolnFilm Studies Toby Miller, New York UniversityFeminist Film Studies and Film Theory Julian Wolfreys, University of FloridaEthical Criticism Kenneth Womack, Pennsylvania State University, AltoonaPostmodernism Marcel Cornis-Pope, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityThe Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate Kate Flint, Linacre College, Oxford UniversityWhiteness Studies Betsy Nies, University of North FloridaMasculinity and Cultural Studies David Alderson, Manchester UniversityPart III Criticism, Literary and Cultural Studies in England, Ireland, Scotland and WalesSamuel Taylor Coleridge and Matthew Arnold Ortwin de Graef, Katholieke universiteit, LeuvenJohn Ruskin and Walter Pater: Aesthetics and the State Jonathan Loesberg, American UniversityOscar Wilde: Aesthetics and Criticism Megan Becker-Leckrone, University of Nevada, Las VegasThe Cambridge School: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, I. A. Richards and William Empson Jeremy Tambling, Hong Kong UniversityJames Joyce: Theories of Literature Jean Michel Rabaté, University of PennsylvaniaVirginia Woolf: Aesthetics Jane Goldman, University of DundeeT. S. Eliot K. M. Newton, University of DundeeAfter the "Cambridge School": F. R. Leavis Jeremy Tambling, Hong Kong UniversityJ. L. Austin and Speech-Act Theory William Flesch, Brandeis UniversityRichard Hoggart, Raymond Williams and the Emergence of Cultural Studies David Alderson, Manchester UniversityRaymond Williams Andrew Milner, Monash UniversityStuart Hall John Brannigan, Queen's University, BelfastTerry Eagleton Moyra Haslett, Queen's University, BelfastScreen Antony Easthope, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityStructuralism and the Structuralist Controversy Niall Lucy, Murdoch UniversityThe Spread of Literary Theory in Britain Peter Barry, University of Wayles, AberystwythFeminism and Poststructuralism Ashley Tauchert, Exeter UniversityCultural Studies Ian Baucom, Duke UniversityCultural Materialism John Brannigan, Queen's University, BelfastPostcolonial Studies Gail Ching-Liang Low, University of DundeeGay/Queer and Lesbian Studies, Criticism and Theory John M. Clum, Duke UniversityErnesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Post-Marxism Paul Bowman, Leeds UniversityPsychoanalysis in Literary and Cultural Studies Leigh Wilson, University of WestminsterFeminism, Materialism and the Debate on Postmodernism in British Universities Gillian Howie, University of LiverpoolBritish Poststructuralism since 1968 Martin McQuillan, Leeds UniversityGlossaryContributorsIndex