Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is editor of the American Book Review, founding editor of the journal symploke, and executive director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.

Di Leo (English and philosophy, Univ. of Houston, Victoria) divides this handbook into two parts of approximately the same length. The first part comprises 27 essays by diverse hands on general topics within the embrace of literary and cultural theory; the second part provides explications of ‘terms and figures’ (presented alphabetically). The topics and authors in part 1 range from Paul Allen Miller on early theory and Herman Rapaport on structuralism and semiotics to Sean Grattan on affect studies and Vincent Leitch on antitheory. Each essay concludes with detailed notes and works cited. Summing Up: Recommended.

• AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Theory in the New MillenniumJeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA)Part One: Essays1. Early Theory, Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina, USA)2. Structuralism and Semiotics, Herman Rapaport (Wake Forest University, USA)3. Narrative and Narratology, Gerald Prince (University of Pennsylvania, USA)4. Marxism, Peter Hitchcock (City College of New York, USA)5. Poststructuralism, Daniel T. O'Hara (Temple University, USA)6. Historicisms, Harold Aram Veeser (City College of New York, USA)7. Psychoanalytic Theory, Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA)8. Rhetoric, Steven Mailloux (Loyola Marymount University, USA)9. Deconstruction, Henry Sussman (Yale University, USA)10. Feminism, Robin Truth Goodman (Florida State University, USA)11. Cultural Studies, John Frow (University of Sydney, Australia)12. Postmodernism, Jeffrey T. Nealon (Pennsylvania State University, USA)13. Race and Postcolonial Studies, Nicole Simek (Whitman College, USA)14. Ecocriticism, Claire Colebrook (Pennsylvania State University, USA)15. Biopower and Biopolitics, Gregg Lambert (Syracuse University, USA)16. Pop Culture, Aaron Jaffe (Florida State University, USA)17. Comparativisms, Alexander Beecroft (University of South Carolina, USA)18. Translation, Brian O'Keeffe (Barnard College, USA)19. Media Studies, Toby Miller (Cardiff University, UK)20. Digital Humanities, Joseph Tabbi (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)21. Late Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux (McMaster University, Canada)22. Identity Studies, Mike Hill (State University of New York, Albany, USA)23. Materialisms, Chris Breu (Illinois State University, USA)24. Posthumanism, Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)25. University Studies, Jeffrey J. Williams (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)25. Affect Studies, Sean Grattan (University of Kent, UK)26. Antitheory, Vincent Leitch (University of Oklahoma, USA)Part Two: Terms and FiguresIndex