在全球化的今天，文学理论受到哪些影响？它为什么不断地被诅咒“死亡”？它未来的发展趋势又如何？由马丁·麦奎兰、格雷姆·麦克唐纳、罗宾·珀维斯、斯蒂芬·汤姆森编的《后理论——文化批评的新方向(英文版)》对文学理论在当下的功能及未来的发展方向进行了反思，不少观点颇引人深思，对在国际上推广中国文学理论批评更是不无启发。

Preface
Acknowledgements
The Joy of Theory
Part I Deja Vu
1 Deja Vu
2 Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity'
3 Post-Gender: Jurassic Feminism Meets Queer Politics
4 The Pleasures of Labour: Marxist Aesthetics in a
Post-Marxist World
5 Is the Novel Original? Derrida and (Post-)Modernity
6 Pierre Bourdieu and the Chronotopes of 'Post-Theory'
Part II Inter
7 Inter
Part III The Post-Theory Condition
8 English Studies in the Postmodern Condition:
Towards a Place for the Signifier
9 Ethopoeia, Source-Study and Legal History:
A Post-Theoretical Approach to the Question of
'Character' in Shakespearean Drama
10 The Death Drive Does Not Think
11 'Various Infinitudes': Narration, Embodiment and
Ontology in Beckett's How It Is and Spinoza's Ethics
12 Edward Said after Theory: The Limits of Counterpoint
13 Grounding Theory: Literary Theory and the
New Geography
Post-Word
Notes on Contributors
Index