Habib M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory - A History

John Wiley & Sons, 2008. — 838 p.Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century along with a close analysis of some of the most important and commonly taught texts from the period.
Provides an accessible introduction to modern literary theory and criticism.
Places various modes of criticism within their historical and intellectual contexts.
Offers close readings of some of the major critical texts of the period.
Explores the works of a diverse group of 20th-century writers, including Babbitt, Woolf, Bakhtin, Heidegger, Lacan, Derrida, Judith Butler, Zizek, Nussbaum, Negri and Hardt.
Covers formalism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, reader-response criticism, historicism, gender studies, cultural studies, and film theory.Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works.Ancient Greek Criticism.
Classical Literary Criticism: Intellectual and Political Backgrounds.
Plato (428–ca. 347 bc).
Aristotle (384–322 bc).
The Traditions of Rhetoric.
Greek Rhetoric.
Protagoras, Gorgias, Antiphon, Lysias, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle.
The Hellenistic Period and Roman Rhetoric.
Rhetorica, Cicero, Quintilian.
Greek and Latin Criticism During the Roman Empire.
Horace (65–8 bc).
Longinus (First Century ad).
Neo-Platonism.
Plotinus, Macrobius, Boethius.
The Medieval Era.
The Early Middle Ages.
St. Augustine.
The Later Middle Ages.
Hugh of St. Victor, John of Salisbury, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey de.
Vinsauf, Ibn Rushd (Averroлs), St. Thomas Aquinas.
Transitions: Medieval Humanism.
Giovanni Boccaccio, Christine de Pisan.
The Early Modern Period to the Enlightenment.
The Early Modern Period.
Giambattista Giraldi, Lodovico Castelvetro, Giacopo Mazzoni,
Torquato Tasso, Joachim Du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Sir Philip Sidney,
George Gascoigne, George Puttenham.
Neoclassical Literary Criticism.
Pierre Corneille, Nicolas Boileau, John Dryden, Alexander Pope,
Aphra Behn, Samuel Johnson.
The Enlightenment.
John Locke, Joseph Addison, Giambattista Vico, David Hume,
Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft.
The Earlier Nineteenth Century and Romanticism.
Introduction to the Modern Period.
The Kantian System and Kant’s Aesthetics.
G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831).
Romanticism (I): Germany and France.
Friedrich von Schiller, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Germaine de Staлl.
Romanticism (II): England and America.
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Edgar Allan Poe.
The Later Nineteenth Century.
Realism and Naturalism.
George Eliot, Йmile Zola, William Dean Howells, Henry James.
Symbolism and Aestheticism.
Charles Baudelaire, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde.
The Heterological Thinkers.
Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson,
Matthew Arnold.
Marxism.
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Gyцrgy Lukбcs, Terry Eagleton.
The Twentieth Century.
The Twentieth Century: Backgrounds and Perspectives.
Psychoanalytic Criticism.
Freud and Lacan.
Formalisms.
Victor Shklovsky, Boris Eichenbaum, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roman Jakobson,
John Crowe Ransom, William K. Wimsatt, Monroe C. Beardsley, T. S. Eliot.
Structuralism.
Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes.
Deconstruction.
Jacques Derrida.
Feminist Criticism.
Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Elaine Showalter, Michиle Barrett,
Julia Kristeva, Hйlиne Cixous.
Reader-Response and Reception Theory.
Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hans Robert Jauss, Wolfgang Iser,
Stanley Fish.
Postcolonial Criticism.
Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha,
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
New Historicism.
Stephen Greenblatt, Michel Foucault.
Epilogue.
Selective Bibliography.