《文学理论》一书为“外教社原版文学入门丛书”之一。全书以历史进程为顺序，以流派转换为框架，以文学理论及其代表人物为核心，简明扼要地向初学者介绍了西方文学批评的历史、主要流派和人物代表。本书内容丰富，难度适中，使人一卷在手，西方文学理论尽收眼底。

“外教社原版文学入门丛书”以介绍文学理论和小说类型及相应的社会文化背景为主，勾勒出英美文学发展的概貌。本丛书文字简练、语言生动，对我国的外国文学及理论研究者、在校学生以及广大文学爱好者都有很高的参考价值。

本书为该丛书中的一本。全书以历史进程为顺序，以流派转换为框架，以文学理论及其代表人物为核心，简明扼要地向初学者介绍了西方文学批评的历史、主要流派和人物代表。本书内容丰富，难度适中，使人一卷在手，西方文学理论尽收眼底。

1.What is 'Literary Theory?'

2.Humanist Literary Theory

Plato

Aristotle

Horace

Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Francis Bacon

Joseph Addison

Edmund Burke

Samuel Johnson

Sir Joshua Reynolds

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

Edgar Allan Poe

Matthew Arnold

3.Structuralism

Ferdinand de Saussure

Claude Levi-Strauss and 'The Structural Study of Myth'

 Interlude: Humanism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism

4.Deconstruction

Binary Opposition

The Role of the Center

Bricolage

5.Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud

Jacques Lacan

 Interlude: 'Self' to 'Subject'

6.Feminism

'Pre-poststructuralist' Feminist Literary Theory

Poststructuralist Feminist Literary Theory

Helene Cixous and 'The Laugh of the Medusa'

Luce Irigaray and 'This Sex Which Is Not One'

7.Queer Theory

Flexible Sexuality?

Gay/Lesbian Studies

 Interlude: History to Historicism

Humanist History

New Historicism

8.Ideology and Discourse

Marxist Theory: a Few Basics

Louis Althusser and Ideology

Mikhail Bakhtin and 'Discourse in the Novel'

Michel Foucault: Discourse, Power/Knowledge,and the Author Function

9.Race and Postcolonialism

Colonialism and 'English'

Henry Louis Gates, Jr and 'The Signifying Monkey'

Postcolonialism and Orientalism

Homi Bhaba and 'The Location of Culture'

Gloria Anzaldua and 'Borderlands/La Frontera'

10.Postmodernism

Modernity

Jean Baudrillard

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

 Coda: What Now?

Index