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Modern criticism and theory: A reader/

This third edition of Modern Criticism and Theory represents a major expansion on its previous incarnations with some twenty five new pieces or essays included. This expansion has two principal purposes. Firstly, in keeping with the collection's aim to reflect contemporary preoccupations, the r...

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Other Authors: Lodge, David, 1935-
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Noida: Pearson, c1988
Edition:2nd ed.
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245 |a Modern criticism and theory:  |b A reader/  |c Edited by Nigel Wood; David Lodge.  |h English 
250 |a 2nd ed. 
260 |a Noida:  |b Pearson,  |c c1988 
300 |a 550p. 
500 |a  The battle of the veil: woman between orientalism and nationalism. 
505 |a Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contents arranged historically -- Contents arranged thematically -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Contents Arranged Historically -- 1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- Preface, and The premisses of the materialist method -- 2. Ferdinand de Saussure -- 3. Sigmund Freud -- The premisses and technique of interpretation and Manifest and latent elements -- 4. Walter Benjamin -- The task of the translator -- 5. Virginia Woolf -- Chapter Two of A Room of One's Own -- 6. Simone de Beauvoir. Myth and reality, and Woman's situation and character -- 7. Frantz Fanon -- The negro and language -- 8. Roman Jakobson -- Linguistics and poetics -- The metaphoric and metonymic poles -- 9. Bertolt Brecht -- Study of the first scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus -- 10. Jacques Lacan -- The insistence of the letter in the unconscious -- 11. Jacques Derrida -- Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences -- 12. Tzvetan Todorov -- The typology of detective fiction -- 13. Mikhail Bakhtin -- From the prehistory of novelistic discourse -- 14. E.D. Hirsch Jr. In defense of the author -- 15. Michel Foucault -- What is an author? -- 16. Wolfgang Iser -- The reading process: a phenomenological approach -- 17. Roland Barthes -- The death of the author -- Textual analysis: Poe's 'Valdemar' -- 18. Raymond Williams -- Country and city, and A problem of perspective -- 19. Julia Kristeva -- The ethics of linguistics -- 20. Helene Cixous -- Sorties -- 21. Edward Said -- Crisis [in orientalism] -- 22. Stanley Fish -- Interpreting the Variorum -- 23. J. Hillis Miller -- The critic as host -- 24. Jean-Francois Lyotard -- what is postmodernism? 25. Jean Baudrillard -- Simulacra and simulations -- 26. Paul de Man -- The resistance to theory -- 27. Geoffrey Hartman -- The interpreter's Freud -- 28. Umberto Eco -- Casablanca: Cult movies and intertextual collage -- 29. Michael Riffaterre -- Transposing presuppositions on the semiotics of literary translation -- 30. Patrocinio P. Schweickart -- Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading -- 31. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- The beast in the closet -- 32. Luce Irigaray -- The bodily encounter with the mother -- 33. Fredric Jameson -- Postmodernism and consumer society. 34. Stephen Greenblatt -- The circulation of social energy -- 35. Jerome McGann -- The textual condition -- 36. Stuart Hall -- New ethnicities -- 37. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Questions of multi-culturalism, and The post-colonial critic -- 38. Judith Butler -- Critically queer -- 39. Malcolm Bowie -- Freud and the European unconscious -- 40. Jeffrey Weeks -- The sphere of the intimate and the values of everyday life -- 41. Lawrence Buell -- Place -- 42. Slavoj Žižek -- Fantasy as a political category: a Lacanian Approach -- 43. Meyda Yeğenoğlu. 
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