Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory

An Overview

Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

472 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-36612-1 (ISBN)

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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 postcritique, 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, speculative realism 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.

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA.

Introduction
1 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
2 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
3 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
4 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
5 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
6 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
7 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
8 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
9 Biopolitics
9.0 Introduction
9.1 Michel Foucault
9.2 Giorgio Agamben
9.3 Michael Hart and Antonio Negri
9.4 Surveillance Studies
9.5 Disability Studies
10 Globalization
10.0 Introduction
10.1 Postcolonial Theory
10.2 Border Studies
10.3 Neoliberalism
10.4 Translation
10.5 World Literature and Theory
11 Ecocriticism
11.0 Introduction
11.1 Green Theory
11.2 Critical Climate Change
11.3 Anthropocene
11.4 Geocriticism
11.5 Blue Humanities
12 Posthumanism
12.0 Introduction
12.1 Cyborg Theory
12.2 Animal Studies
12.3 Systems Theory
12.4 Cognitive Criticism
12.5 Speculative Realism
13 Affect Studies
13.0 Introduction
13.1 Queer Affect
13.2 Materialism
13.3 Presentism
13.4 Trauma Theory
13.5 Holocaust Studies
14 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
15 Against Theory
15.0 Introduction
15.1 Antitheory
15.2 Posttheory
15.3 Object-Oriented Ontology
15.4 Postcritique
15.5 New New Criticism
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.7.2025
Zusatzinfo	7 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-36612-9 / 1350366129
ISBN-13	978-1-350-36612-1 / 9781350366121
Zustand	Neuware