《文学理论》一书为“外教社原版文学入门丛书”之一。全书以历史进程为顺序,以流派转换为框架,以文学理论及其代表人物为核心,简明扼要地向初学者介绍了西方文学批评的历史、主要流派和人物代表。本书内容丰富,难度适中,使人一卷在手,西方文学理论尽收眼底。
“外教社原版文学入门丛书”以介绍文学理论和小说类型及相应的社会文化背景为主,勾勒出英美文学发展的概貌。本丛书文字简练、语言生动,对我国的外国文学及理论研究者、在校学生以及广大文学爱好者都有很高的参考价值。
本书为该丛书中的一本。全书以历史进程为顺序,以流派转换为框架,以文学理论及其代表人物为核心,简明扼要地向初学者介绍了西方文学批评的历史、主要流派和人物代表。本书内容丰富,难度适中,使人一卷在手,西方文学理论尽收眼底。
1.What is 'Literary Theory?'
2.Humanist Literary Theory
Plato
Aristotle
Horace
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Francis Bacon
Joseph Addison
Edmund Burke
Samuel Johnson
Sir Joshua Reynolds
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Keats
Edgar Allan Poe
Matthew Arnold
3.Structuralism
Ferdinand de Saussure
Claude Levi-Strauss and 'The Structural Study of Myth'
Interlude: Humanism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism
4.Deconstruction
Binary Opposition
The Role of the Center
Bricolage
5.Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Jacques Lacan
Interlude: 'Self' to 'Subject'
6.Feminism
'Pre-poststructuralist' Feminist Literary Theory
Poststructuralist Feminist Literary Theory
Helene Cixous and 'The Laugh of the Medusa'
Luce Irigaray and 'This Sex Which Is Not One'
7.Queer Theory
Flexible Sexuality?
Gay/Lesbian Studies
Interlude: History to Historicism
Humanist History
New Historicism
8.Ideology and Discourse
Marxist Theory: a Few Basics
Louis Althusser and Ideology
Mikhail Bakhtin and 'Discourse in the Novel'
Michel Foucault: Discourse, Power/Knowledge,and the Author Function
9.Race and Postcolonialism
Colonialism and 'English'
Henry Louis Gates, Jr and 'The Signifying Monkey'
Postcolonialism and Orientalism
Homi Bhaba and 'The Location of Culture'
Gloria Anzaldua and 'Borderlands/La Frontera'
10.Postmodernism
Modernity
Jean Baudrillard
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Coda: What Now?
Index