8 Reader-Response Criticism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface XI
4. Acknowledgments XVII
5. 1 Marxist Criticism in the 1930s 1
6. 2 The “New Criticism” 24
7. 3 The Chicago School 60
8. 4 The New York Intellectuals 81
9. 5 Myth Criticism 115
10. 6 Phenomenological and Existential Criticism 148
11. 7 Hermeneutics 182
12. 8 Reader-Response Criticism 211
13. 9 Literary Structuralism and Semiotics 238
14. 10 Deconstructive Criticism 267
15. 11 Feminist Criticism 307
16. 12 Black Aesthetics 332
17. 13 Leftist Criticism from the 1960s to the 1980s 366
18. Afterword. Circumstances of History 409
19. Notes 413
20. Index 439