How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies Book

Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. New Criticism
How to Interpret: Key Concepts from New Critical Interpretation Historicizing the New Criticism: Rethinking Literary Unity The Intentional Fallacy and the Affective Fallacy How to Interpret: A New Critical Example
Chapter 3. Structuralism
Structuralism in Cultural and Literary Studies The Structuralist Study of Narrative: Narratology Narrative Syntax, Metaphor and Metonymy
Chapter 4. Deconstruction
Writing, Speech, and Différance Deconstruction beyond Derrida Deconstruction, Essentialism, and Identity How to Interpret: More Deconstructive Examples
Chapter 5. Psychoanalysis
The Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Mind Sigmund Freud How to Interpret: Models of Psychoanalytic Interpretation From the Interpretation of Dreams to the Interpretation of Literature Jacques Lacan
Chapter 6. Feminism
Early Feminist Criticism Sex and Gender Feminisms How to Interpret: Feminist Examples Feminism and Visual Pleasure
Chapter 7. Queer Studies
How to Interpret: A Queer Studies Example Queer Studies and History Outing: Writers, Characters, and the Literary Closet Homosociality and Heterosexual Panic How to Interpret: Another Queer Studies Example
Chapter 8. Marxism
Contemporary Marxism, Ideology, and Agency How to Interpret: Marxist Examples
Chapter 9. Historicism and Cultural Studies
New Historicism Michel Foucault Cultural Studies How to Interpret: Cultural Studies, Historicism, and Literature
Chapter 10. Postcolonial and Race Studies
Postcolonialism From Orientalism to Deconstruction: Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Race Studies: Postcolonial Theory and the Construction of Race How to Interpret: Postcolonial and Race Studies Examples
Chapter 11. Reader Response
Afterword
Works Cited
Further Reading
Index