Understanding contemporary American literary theory
By: Michael P. Spikes.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Understanding contemporary American literature
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Description: "In this revised edition of Understanding Contemporary American Literary Theory, Michael P. Spikes adds Stanley Fish and Susan Bordo to the critics whose careers, key texts, and central assumptions he discusses in introducing readers to developments in American literary theory during the past thirty-five years. Underscoring the largely heterogeneous mix of strategies and suppositions that these critics, along with Paul de Man, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Edward W. Said, and Stephen Greenblatt, represent, Spikes offers concise analysis of their principal claims and illustrates how their works reflect a range of critical perspectives, from deconstruction, African American studies, and reader-response theory to political criticism, the new historicism, and feminism."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: introduction : literary theory in the twentieth century; title: Paul de Man : deconstruction; title: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. : African-American studies; title: Stephen Greenblatt : new historicism; title: Edward W. Said : political critique; title: Stanley Fish : reader response; title: Susan Bordo : feminism.