Modern North American criticism and theory
Subtitle: a critical guide
By: edited by Julian Wolfreys
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780748626786
Subjects: Criticism; Semiotics & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM
Description: Focusing on the growth and expansion of critical trends and methodologies, this book offers an introduction to the literary theory in North America. With essays addressing key figures in their historical and cultural contexts, it depicts the change, transformation, and the quest for and affirmation of multiple cultural voices and identities.
Notes: "First published as part of The Edinburgh encyclopaedia of modern criticism and theory in 2002"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Preface; 1. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839℗ł1914) and Semiotics; 2. The New Criticism; 3. The Chicago School; 4. Northrop Frye (1912℗ł1991); 5. The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism; 6. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Norman Holland (1927℗ł), Stanley Fish (1938℗ł) and David Bleich (1940℗ł); 7. The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller (1928℗ł), Geoffrey Hartman (1929℗ł), Harold Bloom (1930℗ł), Paul de Man (1919℗ł1983); 8. Deconstruction in America; 9. Fredric Jameson (1934℗ł) and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism; 10. Edward W. Said (1935℗ł2003)