Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword xi
4. Part I Critical Discourse in Europe
5. René Descartes (1596-1650) and Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677): Beginnings 1
6. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) 9
7. Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) 29
8. Karl Marx (1818-1883) 36
9. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) and Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) 43
10. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 52
11. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) 59
12. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) and Structural Linguistic 70
13. Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) 73
14. Phenomenology 82
15. Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) and Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995): Epistemology in France 92
16. Jean Paulhan (1884-1969) and/versus Francis Ponge (1899-1988) 100
17. György Lukács (1885-1971) 106
18. Russian Formalism, the Moscow Linguistics Circle, and Prague Structuralism: Boris Eichenbaum (1886-1959), Jan Mukarovsky (1891-1975), Victor Shklovsky (1893-1984), Yuri Tynyanov (1894-1943), Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) 114
19. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) 120
20. Martin Heidegger (1889±1976) 127
21. Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) 137
22. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) 143
23. Reception Theory: Roman Ingarden (1893- 1970), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-) and the Geneva School 151
24. The Frankfurt School, the Marxist Tradition, Culture and Critical Thinking: Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), Jürgen Habermas (1929-) 158
25. Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) 168
26. Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and Maurice Blanchot (1907-) 174
27. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) 188
28. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) 196
29. The Reception of Hegel and Heidegger in France: Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968), Jean Hyppolite (1907-1968), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) 206
30. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), Albert Camus (1913-1960) and Existentialism 213
31. Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) 218
32. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) and French Feminism 226
33. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-) 235
34. Jean Genet (1910-1986) 241
35. Paul Ricoeur (1913-) 248
36. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) 257
37. French Structuralism: A. J. Greimas (1917- 1992), Tzvetan Todorov (1939-) and Gérard Genette (1930-) 265
38. Louis Althusser (1918-1990) and his Circle 273
39. Reception Theory and Reader-Response (I): Hans-Robert Jauss (1922-1997), Wolfgang Iser (1926-) and the School of Konstanz 280
40. Jean-François Lyotard (1925-1998) and Jean Baudrillard (1929-): The Suspicion of Metanarratives 287
41. The Social and the Cultural: Michel de Certeau (1925-1986), Pierre Bourdieu (1930-) and Louis Marin (1931-1992) 294
42. Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) 303
43. Michel Foucault (1926-1984) 312
44. Jacques Derrida (1930-) 317
45. Luce Irigaray (1930-) 326
46. Christian Metz (1931-1993) 335
47. Guy Debord (1931-1994) and the Situationist International 341
48. Umberto Eco (1932-) 349
49. Modernities: Paul Virilio (1932-), Gianni Vattimo (1936-), Giorgio Agamben (1942-) 356
50. Hélène Cixous (1938-) 365
51. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-) and Jean- Luc Nancy (1940-) 371
52. Julia Kristeva (1941-) 382
53. Slavoj Žižek (1949-) 390
54. Cahiers du Cinéma(1951-) 398
55. Critical Fictions: Experiments in Writing from Le Nouveau Roman to the Oulipo 404
56. Tel Quel(1960-1982) 411
57. Other French Feminisms: Sarah Kofman (1934-1994), Monique Wittig (1935-), Michèle Le Doeuff (1948-) 419
58. Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism in France 426
59. Part II Theories and Practice of Criticism in North America
60. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and Semiotics 431
61. The New Criticism 436
62. The Chicago School 444
63. Northrop Frye (1912-1991) 451
64. The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism 458
65. Reception Theory and Reader-Response (II): Norman Holland (1927-), Stanley Fish (1938-) and David Bleich (1940-) 465
66. The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller (1928-), Geoffrey Hartman (1929-), Harold Bloom (1930-), Paul de Man (1919-1983) 472
67. Deconstruction in America 481
68. Fredric Jameson (1934-) and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism 487
69. Edward W. Said (1935-) 495
70. American Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism 502
71. Feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s: The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies 511
72. Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism 519
73. Feminists of Colour 528
74. Stephen Greenblatt (1943-) and the New Historicism 535
75. Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Theory 542
76. Postcolonial Studies 550
77. Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism 558
78. African-American Studies 567
79. Chicano/a Literature 575
80. Film Studies 582
81. Feminist Film Studies and Film Theory 591
82. Ethical Criticism 599
83. Postmodernism 608
84. The Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate 618
85. Whiteness Studies 625
86. Masculinity and Cultural Studies 631
87. Part III Criticism, Literary and Cultural Studies in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
88. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) and Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) 641
89. John Ruskin (1819-1900) and Walter Pater (1839-1894): Aesthetics and the State 650
90. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): Aesthetics and Criticism 658
91. The Cambridge School: Sir Arthur Quiller- Couch (1863-1944), I. A. Richards (1893- 1979) and William Empson (1906-1984) 665
92. James Joyce (1882-1941): Theories of Literature 673
93. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): Aesthetics 680
94. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) 691
95. After the 'Cambridge School': F. R. Leavis (1895-1978), Scrutiny (1932-1952) and Literary Studies in Britain 698
96. J. L. Austin (1911-1960) and Speech-Act Theory 703
97. Richard Hoggart (1918-), Raymond Williams (1921-1988) and the Emergence of Cultural Studies 709
98. Raymond Williams (1921-1988) 717
99. Stuart Hall (1932-) 726
100. Terry Eagleton (1943-) 731
101. Screen(1971-) 736
102. Structuralism and the Structuralist Controversy 743
103. The Spread of Literary Theory in Britain 750
104. Feminism and Poststructuralism 758
105. Cultural Studies 768
106. Cultural Materialism 777
107. Postcolonial Studies 784
108. Gay/Queer and Lesbian Studies, Criticism and Theory 792
109. Ernesto Laclau (1935-), Chantal Mouffe (1948-) and Post-Marxism 799
110. Psychoanalysis in Literary and Cultural Studies 809
111. Feminism, Materialism and the Debate on Postmodernism in British Universities 818
112. British Poststructuralism since 1968 827
113. Glossary 833
114. Contributors 873
115. Index 875