Contemporary Literary Criticism: Modernism Through Poststructuralism

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Robert Con Davis
Longman, 1986 - Literary Criticism - 511 pages

Contents

The Study of Criticism at the Present Time
1
THE CALL FOR FORM
11
GAYATRI C SPIVAK Unmaking and Making in To
16
Dehumanization of Art
33
FORMALISM
45
Fallacy
78
THE HISTORICAL DIALECTIC
105
FREDRIC JAMESON Metacommentary
111
DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SCENE
217
ROBERT CON DAVIS Lacan Poe and Narrative
246
NEIL HERTZ Doras Secrets Freuds Techniques
262
Joke as Textual
277
THE STRUCTURALIST CONTROVERSY
295
ROLAND BARTHES The Structuralist Activity
301
CLAUDE LÉVISTRAUSS The Structural Study of Myth
307
TZVETAN TODOROV Structural Analysis of Narrative
323

RAYMOND WILLIAMS Alignment and Commitment
124
Political Criticism
130
HAYDEN WHITE Getting Out of History
146
THE SEXUAL DIALECTIC
161
ELAINE SHOWALTER Towards a Feminist Poetics
167
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Breton or Poetry
182
SANDRA M GILBERT Literary Paternity
188
Lighthouse
201
UMBERTO Eco The Myth of Superman
330
THE AFFECTIVE RESPONSE
345
A Phenomenological
376
STANLEY E FISH Interpreting the Variorum
392
THE POSTSTRUCTURALIST TEXTE
409
BartheS
439
Acknowledgments continued
499

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