本书对20世纪与21世纪初的文学与文化研究进行了系统介绍，内容涉及相关研究的关键人物，如Charles Sanders Peirce,Northrop Frye, J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Fredric Jameson, Edward W. Said,Stephen Greenblatt, 并涉及重要的流派和发展趋势。每章后面附有阅读书目。

本书对20世纪与21世纪初的文学与文化研究进行了系统介绍，内容涉及相关研究的关键人物，如Charles Sanders Peirce,Northrop Frye, J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Fredric Jameson, Edward W. Said,Stephen Greenblatt, 并涉及重要的流派和发展趋势，如Semiotics,The New Criticism, The Chicago School, Reception Theory and Reader-Response, Deconstruction in America, American Feminisms, Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism, Feminists of Color, New Historicism, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism, African-American Studies,Chicano/a Literature, Film Studies, Feminist Film Studies and Film Theory, Ethical Criticism,  Postmodernism,Whiteness Studies, Comics Studies, Anglophone Canadian Literary Studies, Francophone Canadian Literature。每章后面附有阅读书目。

Preface

1. Charles Sanders Peirce and Semiotics

  Kenneth Womack

2. The New Criticism

  Charles Altieri

3. The Chicago School

  William Baker

4. Northrop Frye

  Imre Salusinszky

5. The Encounter with Structuralism and the

Invention of Poststructuralism

  Mark Currie

6. Reception Theory and Reader-Response:

Norman Holland, Stanley Fish and David Bleich

  Jeremy Lane

7. The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman,

Harold Bloom, Paul de Man

  Ortwin de Graef

8. Deconstruction in America

  William Flesch

9. Fredric Jameson and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism

  Carolyn Lesjak

10. Edward W. Said

  John Kucich

11. American Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism

  Ruth Robbins

12. Feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s:

The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies

  Megan Becker.Leckrone

13. Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism

  Megan Becker.Leckrone

14. Feminists of Colour

  Anne Donadey

15. Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism

  Virginia Mason Vaughan

16. Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Theory

  David Van Leer

17. Postcolonial Studies

  Malini Johar Schueller

18. Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism

  Marcel Cornis.Pope

19. African-American Studies

  Yun Hsing Wu

20. Chicano/a Literature

  Amelia Marid de la Luz Montes

21. Film Studies

  Toby Miller

22. Feminist Film Studies and Film Theory

  Julian Wolfreys

23. Ethical Criticism

  Kenneth Womack

24. Postmodemism

  Marcel Cornis-Pope

25. The Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate

  Kate Flint

26. Whiteness Studies

  Betsy Nies

27. Masculinity and Cultural Studies

  David Alderson

28. Comics Studies

  Christopher Eklund

29. Anglophone Canadian Literary Studies

  Fiona Tolan

30. Francophone Canadian Literature

  Elodie Rousselot

Contributors

Index