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Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory : A Critical Guide / Julian Wolfreys.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748624508
  • 9780748626809
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801.950941 22
LOC classification:
  • PN99.G7 M63 2006eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Matthew Arnold -- 2. John Ruskin and Walter Pater: Aesthetics and the State -- 3. Oscar Wilde: Aesthetics and Criticism -- 4. The Cambridge School: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, I. A. Richards and William Empson -- 5. James Joyce: Theories of Literature -- 6. Virginia Woolf: Aesthetics -- 7. T. S. Eliot -- 8. After the `Cambridge School': F. R. Leavis, Scrutiny and Literary Studies in Britain -- 9. J. L. Austin and Speech-Act Theory -- 10. Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams and the Emergence of Cultural Studies -- 11. Raymond Williams -- 12. Stuart Hall -- 13. Terry Eagleton -- 14. Screen -- 15. Structuralism and the Structuralist Controversy -- 16. The Spread of Literary Theory in Britain -- 17. Feminism and Poststructuralism -- 18. Cultural Studies -- 19. Cultural Materialism -- 20. Postcolonial Studies -- 21. Gay/Queer and Lesbian Studies, Criticism and Theory -- 22. Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and Post-Marxism -- 23. Psychoanalysis in Literary and Cultural Studies -- 24. Feminism, Materialism and the Debate on Postmodernism in British Universities -- 25. British Poststructuralism since 1968 -- 26. Developments in Literary Theory since 1995 -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with Coleridge and Arnold, examining the contribution of cultural commentators and novelists, and considering the institutionalisation of literary criticism in the universities of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, the book addresses in detailed, accessible and rigorous essays the rise and significance of literary and cultural studies. Nearly thirty essays contribute to an understanding of the practice of literary studies presenting the reader with a perceptive series of critical interventions which, themselves, engage in the very locations from which criticism and theory have emerged.A further reading list accompanies each chapter.Key Features:Breadth of coverage from Coleridge through Virginia Woolf to Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton; and from the 'Cambridge School' to Post-structuralism and Postcolonial theory.Focus on the history of modern criticism.Accessibly written.Theoretical debates are set in full historical, cultural and philosophical contexts.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Matthew Arnold -- 2. John Ruskin and Walter Pater: Aesthetics and the State -- 3. Oscar Wilde: Aesthetics and Criticism -- 4. The Cambridge School: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, I. A. Richards and William Empson -- 5. James Joyce: Theories of Literature -- 6. Virginia Woolf: Aesthetics -- 7. T. S. Eliot -- 8. After the `Cambridge School': F. R. Leavis, Scrutiny and Literary Studies in Britain -- 9. J. L. Austin and Speech-Act Theory -- 10. Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams and the Emergence of Cultural Studies -- 11. Raymond Williams -- 12. Stuart Hall -- 13. Terry Eagleton -- 14. Screen -- 15. Structuralism and the Structuralist Controversy -- 16. The Spread of Literary Theory in Britain -- 17. Feminism and Poststructuralism -- 18. Cultural Studies -- 19. Cultural Materialism -- 20. Postcolonial Studies -- 21. Gay/Queer and Lesbian Studies, Criticism and Theory -- 22. Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and Post-Marxism -- 23. Psychoanalysis in Literary and Cultural Studies -- 24. Feminism, Materialism and the Debate on Postmodernism in British Universities -- 25. British Poststructuralism since 1968 -- 26. Developments in Literary Theory since 1995 -- Contributors -- Index

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Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with Coleridge and Arnold, examining the contribution of cultural commentators and novelists, and considering the institutionalisation of literary criticism in the universities of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, the book addresses in detailed, accessible and rigorous essays the rise and significance of literary and cultural studies. Nearly thirty essays contribute to an understanding of the practice of literary studies presenting the reader with a perceptive series of critical interventions which, themselves, engage in the very locations from which criticism and theory have emerged.A further reading list accompanies each chapter.Key Features:Breadth of coverage from Coleridge through Virginia Woolf to Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton; and from the 'Cambridge School' to Post-structuralism and Postcolonial theory.Focus on the history of modern criticism.Accessibly written.Theoretical debates are set in full historical, cultural and philosophical contexts.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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