Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Charles Sanders Peirce and Semiotics 1
5. 2. The New Criticism 4
6. 3. The Chicago School 12
7. 4. Northrop Frye 19
8. 5. The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism 26
9. 6. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Norman Holland, Stanley Fish and David Bleich 33
10. 7. The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, Paul de Man 40
11. 8. Deconstruction in America 49
12. 9. Fredric Jameson and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism 55
13. 10. Edward W. Said 63
14. 11. American Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism 70
15. 12. Feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s: The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies 79
16. 13. Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism 87
17. 14. Feminists of Colour 96
18. 15. Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism 103
19. 16. Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Theory 110
20. 17. Postcolonial Studies 118
21. 18. Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism 126
22. 19. African-American Studies 135
23. 20. Chicano/a Literature 143
24. 21. Film Studies 150
25. 22. Feminist Film Studies and Film Theory 159
26. 23. Ethical Criticism 167
27. 24. Postmodernism 176
28. 25. The Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate 186
29. 26. Whiteness Studies 193
30. 27. Masculinity and Cultural Studies 199
31. 28. Comics Studies 207
32. 29. Anglophone Canadian Literary Studies 214
33. 30. Francophone Canadian Literature 224
34. Contributors 229
35. Index 230