Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview

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The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field of contemporary literary theory. Examining 75 key topics across 15 chapters, it provides an approachable and encyclopedic introduction to the most important areas of contemporary theory today. Proceeding broadly chronologically from early theory all the way through to new new criticism, Di Leo masterfully unpacks established topics such as psychoanalysis, structuralism and Marxism, as well as newer topics such as trans theory, animal studies, disability studies, blue humanities, disability studies and many more. Featuring accessible discussion of the work of foundational theorists such as Lacan, Derrida and Freud as well as contemporary theorists such as Haraway, Braidotti and Hayles, it offers a magisterial examination of an enormously rich and varied body of work. Cover Halftitle page Title page Copyright page CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction THE CITY OF THEORY EIGHT WAYS OF LOOKING AT THEORY HOW TO APPROACH THE STUDY OF THEORY HOW TO USE THEORY ABOUT THIS BOOK CHAPTER ONE Early Theory 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 HUMANISM 1.2 RHETORIC (OR, THE QUARREL BETWEEN RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY) 1.3 HERMENEUTICS 1.4 AESTHETICISM 1.5 NEW CRITICISM CHAPTER TWO Structuralism and Semiotics 2.0 INTRODUCTION 2.1 STRUCTURE OF THE SIGN (OR, SAUSSURE AND PEIRCE) 2.2 RUSSIAN FORMALISM 2.3 ROLAND BARTHES 2.4 CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS 2.5 NARRATOLOGY CHAPTER THREE Marxism 3.0 INTRODUCTION 3.1 KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS 3.2 THE ADORNO–BENJAMIN DEBATE 3.3 MIKHAIL BAKHTIN 3.4 LOUIS ALTHUSSER 3.5 FREDRIC JAMESON CHAPTER FOUR Psychoanalytic Theory 4.0 INTRODUCTION 4.1 SIGMUND FREUD 4.2 JACQUES LACAN 4.3 HAROLD BLOOM 4.4 FÉLIX GUATTARI AND GILLES DELEUZE 4.5 SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK CHAPTER FIVE Poststructuralism 5.0 INTRODUCTION 5.1 JACQUES DERRIDA 5.2 JULIA KRISTEVA 5.3 JEAN-FRANÇOIS LYOTARD 5.4 JEAN BAUDRILLARD 5.5 NEW HISTORICISM CHAPTER SIX Feminist Theory 6.0 INTRODUCTION 6.1 FIRST WAVE 6.2 SECOND WAVE 6.3 THIRD WAVE AND BEYOND 6.4 HÉLÈNE CIXOUS 6.5 LUCE IRIGARAY CHAPTER SEVEN LGBTQ + Theory 7.0 INTRODUCTION 7.1 LESBIAN AND GAY THEORY 7.2 LESBIAN FEMINISM 7.3 JUDITH BUTLER 7.4 EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK 7.5 TRANS* THEORY CHAPTER EIGHT Race and Justice 8.0 INTRODUCTION 8.1 CRITICAL RACE THEORY 8.2 LAW AND LITERATURE 8.3 HUMAN RIGHTS 8.4 INTERSECTIONALITY 8.5 SUBALTERN STUDIES CHAPTER NINE Biopolitics 9.0 INTRODUCTION 9.1 MICHEL FOUCAULT 9.2 GIORGIO AGAMBEN 9.3 MICHAEL HARDT AND ANTONIO NEGRI 9.4 SURVEILLANCE STUDIES 9.5 DISABILITY STUDIES CHAPTER TEN Globalization 10.0 INTRODUCTION 10.1 POSTCOLONIAL THEORY 10.2 BORDER STUDIES 10.3 NEOLIBERALISM 10.4 TRANSLATION 10.5 WORLD LITERATURE AND THEORY CHAPTER ELEVEN Ecocriticism 11.0 INTRODUCTION 11.1 GREEN THEORY 11.2 CRITICAL CLIMATE CHANGE 11.3 ANTHROPOCENE 11.4 GEOCRITICISM 11.5 BLUE HUMANITIES CHAPTER TWELVE Posthumanism 12.0 INTRODUCTION 12.1 CYBORG THEORY 12.2 ANIMAL STUDIES 12.3 SYSTEMS THEORY 12.4 COGNITIVE CRITICISM 12.5 SPECULATIVE REALISM CHAPTER THIRTEEN Affect Studies 13.0 INTRODUCTION 13.1 QUEER AFFECT 13.2 MATERIALISM 13.3 PRESENTISM 13.4 TRAUMA THEORY 13.5 HOLOCAUST STUDIES CHAPTER FOURTEEN Pop Culture 14.0 INTRODUCTION 14.1 CULTURAL STUDIES 14.2 MEDIA STUDIES 14.3 SOUND STUDIES 14.4 GAME STUDIES 14.5 CELEBRITY STUDIES CHAPTER FIFTEEN Against Theory 15.0 INTRODUCTION 15.1 ANTITHEORY 15.2 POSTTHEORY 15.3 OBJECT-ORIENTED ONTOLOGY 15.4 POSTCRITIQUE 15.5 NEW NEW CRITICISM BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX