Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory Book

	Foreword
	Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677): Beginnings	3
	Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)	9
	Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843)	29
	Karl Marx (1818-1883)	36
	Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) and Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898)	43
	Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)	52
	Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)	59
	Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) and Structural Linguistics	70
	Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)	73
	Phenomenology	82
	Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) and Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995): Epistemology in France	92
	Jean Paulhan (1884-1969) and/versus Francis Ponge (1899-1988)	100
	Gyorgy Lukacs (1885-1971)	106
	Russian Formalism, the Moscow Linguistics Circle, and Prague Structuralism: Boris Eichenbaum (1886-1959), Jan Mukarovsky (1891-1975), Victor Shklovsky (1893-1984), Yuri Tynyanov (1894-1943), Roman Jakobson (1896-1982)	114
	Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)	120
	Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)	127
	Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)	137
	Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)	143
	Reception Theory: Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-) and the Geneva School	151
	The Frankfurt School, the Marxist Tradition, Culture and Critical Thinking: Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), Jurgen Habermas (1929-)	158
	Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)	168
	Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and Maurice Blanchot (1907-)	174
	Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)	188
	Jacques Lacan (1901-1981)	196
	The Reception of Hegel and Heidegger in France: Alexandre Kojeve (1902-1968), Jean Hyppolite (1907-1968), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)	206
	Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), Albert Camus (1913-1960) and Existentialism	213
	Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995)	218
	Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) and French Feminism	226
	Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-)	235
	Jean Genet (1910-1986)	241
	Paul Ricoeur (1913-)	248
	Roland Barthes (1915-1980)	257
	French Structuralism: A. J. Greimas (1917-1992), Tzvetan Todorov (1939-) and Gerard Genette (1930-)	265
	Louis Althusser (1918-1990) and his Circle	273
	Reception Theory and Reader-Response (I): Hans-Robert Jauss (1922-1997), Wolfgang Iser (1926-) and the School of Konstanz	280
	Jean-Francois Lyotard (1925-1998) and Jean Baudrillard (1929-): The Suspicion of Metanarratives	287
	The Social and the Cultural: Michel de Certeau (1925-1986), Pierre Bourdieu (1930-) and Louis Marin (1931-1992)	294
	Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Felix Guattari (1930-1992)	303
	Michel Foucault (1926-1984)	312
	Jacques Derrida (1930-)	317
	Luce Irigaray (1930-)	326
	Christian Metz (1931-1993)	335
	Guy Debord (1931-1994) and the Situationist International	341
	Umberto Eco (1932-)	349
	Modernities: Paul Virilio (1932-), Gianni Vattimo (1936-), Giorgio Agamben (1942-)	356
	Helene Cixous (1938-)	365
	Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-) and Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-)	371
	Julia Kristeva (1941-)	382
	Slavoj Zizek (1949-)	390
	Cahiers du Cinema (1951-)	398
	Critical Fictions: Experiments in Writing from Le Nouveau Roman to the Oulipo	404
	Tel Quel (1960-1982)	411
	Other French Feminisms: Sarah Kofman (1934-1994), Monique Wittig (1935-), Michele Le Doeuff (1948-)	419
	Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism in France	426
	Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and Semiotics	433
	The New Criticism	436
	The Chicago School	444
	Northrop Frye (1912-1991)	451
	The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism	458
	Reception Theory and Reader-Response (II): Norman Holland (1927-), Stanley Fish (1938-) and David Bleich (1940-)	465
	The Yale Critics? J. Hills Miller (1928-), Geoffrey Hartman (1929-), Harold Bloom (1929-), Paul de Man (1919-1983)	472
	Deconstruction in America	481
	Fredric Jameson (1934-) and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism	487
	Edward W. Said (1935-)	495
	American Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism	502
	Feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s: The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies	511
	Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism	519
	Feminists of Colour	528
	Stephen Greenblatt (1943-) and the New Historicism	535
	Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Theory	542
	Postcolonial Studies	550
	Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism	558
	African-American Studies	567
	Chicano/a Literature	575
	Film Studies	582
	Feminist Film Studies and Film Theory	591
	Ethical Criticism	599
	Postmodernism	608
	The Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate	618
	Whiteness Studies	625
	Masculinity and Cultural Studies	631
	Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) and Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)	643
	John Ruskin (1819-1900) and Walter Pater (1839-1894): Aesthetics and the State	650
	Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): Aesthetics and Criticism	658
	The Cambridge School: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), I. A. Richards (1893-1979) and William Empson (1906-1984)	665
	James Joyce (1882-1941): Theories of Literature	673
	Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): Aesthetics	680
	T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)	691
	After the 'Cambridge School': F. R. Leavis (1895-1978), Scrutiny (1932-1952) and Literary Studies in Britain	698
	J. L. Austin (1911-1960) and Speech-Act Theory	703
	Richard Hoggart (1918-), Raymond Williams (1921-1988) and the Emergence of Cultural Studies	709
	Raymond Williams (1921-1988)	717
	Stuart Hall (1932-)	726
	Terry Eagleton (1943-)	731
	Screen (1971-)	736
	Structuralism and the Structuralist Controversy	743
	The Spread of Literary Theory in Britain	750
	Feminism and Poststructuralism	758
	Cultural Studies	768
	Cultural Materialism	777
	Postcolonial Studies	784
	Gay/Queer and Lesbian Studies, Criticism and Theory	792
	Ernesto Laclau (1935-), Chantal Mouffe (1948-) and Post-Marxism	799
	Psychoanalysis in Literary and Cultural Studies	809
	Feminism, Materialism and the Debate on Postmodernism in British Universities	818
	British Poststructuralism since 1968	827
	Glossary	833
	Contributors	873
	Index	875