Literary Theory: The Complete Guide

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Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded and updated volume, this is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone entering the often bewildering world of literary theory for the first time. Literary Theory: The Complete Guide includes: • Accessible chapters on all the major schools of theory from deconstruction through psychoanalytic criticism to Marxism and postcolonialism • New chapters introducing ecocriticism, affect theory and biopolitics • Expanded and updated guides to feminist theory, queer theory, postmodernism and globalization • New and fully integrated extracts of theoretical and literary texts to guide students through their use of theory • Accessible coverage of major theorists such as Saussure, Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Cixous, Deleuze and Guattari and Bhabha Each chapter now includes reflection questions for class discussion or independent study and a cross-referenced glossary of key terms covered, as well as updated guides to further reading on each topic. Literary Theory: The Complete Guide is an essential starting point for students of critical theory. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction: Humanist Literary Theory Chapter 1 Structuralism Ferdinand de Saussure Claude Levi-Strauss: “The Structural Study of Myth” and other structuralist ideas Chapter 2 Deconstruction Part one: Some high points of Western philosophy Part two: Structures, signs, and centers Chapter 3 Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud Jacques Lacan Chapter 4 Feminist Theories Pre-poststructuralist feminist theory Poststructuralist feminist theory: Hélène Cixous Chapter 5 Queer Theories Judith Butler and “Gender Trouble” Gayle Rubin and “Thinking Sex” Luce Irigaray, “Commodities Amongst Themselves” Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Chapter 6 Ideology and Discourse Louis Althusser’s “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” Mikhail Bakhtin: “Discourse in the Novel” Michel Foucault Chapter 7 Race and Postcolonialism Part one: “Race” María Lugones: “Hablando cara a cara” Toni Morrison, “Playing in the Dark” Henry Louis Gates Jr. and “The Signifying Monkey” Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands/La Frontera Part two: Postcolonialism Trinh T. Minh-Ha: “Not You/Like You” Edward Said and “Orientalism” Homi K. Bhabha, Signs Taken for Wonders Chapter 8 Ecocriticism Place and bioregionalism Global ecocriticism Chapter 9 Postmodernism Modernism and modernity François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari Slavoj Žižek Chapter 10 Biographies Chapter 11 Terms Index