Literary theory and criticism: an Oxford guide

Introduction : criticism, theory, and anti-theory / Patricia Waugh

Pt. I. Concepts of criticism and aesthetic origins

1. Mimesis: ancient Greek literary theory / Andrea Nightingale

2. Expressivity : the Romantic theory of authorship / Andrew Bennett

3. Interpretation : hermeneutics / Timothy Clark

4. Value : criticism, canons, and evaluation / Patricia Waugh

Pt. II. Criticism and critical practices in the twentieth century

5. Literature and the academy / Chris Baldick

6. I. A. Richards / Ann Banfield

7. T. S. Eliot and the idea of tradition / Gareth Reeves

8. Anthropology and/as myth in modern criticism / Michael Bell

9. F. R. Leavis : criticism and culture / Gary Day

10. Marxist aesthetics / Tony Davies

11. William Empson : from verbal analysis to cultural criticism / David Fuller

12. new criticism / Stephen Matterson

13. intentional fallacy / Peter Lamarque

14. Adorno and the Frankfurt School / Andrew Bowie

15. Freud and psychoanalysis / Celine Surprenant

16. Russian debate on narrative / Gary Saul Morson

17. Bakhtin and the dialogic principle / Lynne Pearce

18. Form, rhetoric, and intellectual history / Faiza W. Shereen

19. Literature into culture: cultural studies after Leavis / Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon

Pt. III. Literary theory : movements and schools

20. Structuralism and narrative poetics / Susana Onega

21. Psychoanalysis after Freud / Josiane Paccaud-Huguet

22. Deconstruction / Alex Thompson

23. Feminisms / Fiona Tolan

24. Postcolonialism / Elleke Boehmer

25. Race, nation, and ethnicity / Kathleen Kerr

26. Reconstructing historicism / Paul Hamilton

27. Postmodernism / Chris Snipp-Walmsley

28. Sexualities / Tony Purvis

29. Science and criticism : beyond the culture wars / Christopher Norris

Pt. IV. Futures and retrospects

30. Performing literary interpretation / K. M. Newton

31. responsibilities of the writer / Sean Burke

32. Mixing memory and desire : psychoanalysis, psychology, and trauma theory / Roger Luckhurst

33. Theories of the gaze / Jeremy Hawthorn

34. Anti-canon theory / David Punter

35. Environmentalism and ecocriticism / Richard Kerridge

36. Cognitive literary criticism / Alan Richardson

37. Writing excess : the poetic principle of post-literary culture / Scott Wilson.