Twentieth-Century Literary Theory: An Introductory Anthology (SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)

The ten topics contained in Twentieth-Century Literary Theory reflect contemporary theoretical interests and guide the reader through fundamental questions, from the formation to the uses of theory, and from the construction to the interpretation of literature. The selected essays cover a wealth of scholarship from both the United States and Europe. They go beyond traditional categories by focusing on issues rather than writers or critical movements, thus providing a forum for the continuing discussion of what theory is and does.Vassilis Lambropoulos is Assistant Professor of Modern Greek at The Ohio State University. David Neal Miller is Assistant Professor and Coordinator for Yiddish Studies at The Ohio State University. Orientation Of Critical Theories / M. H. Abrams -- Problems In The Study Of Literature And Language / Jurij Tyjanov, Roman Jakobson -- Structure, Sign And Play In The Human Sciences / Jacques Derrida -- Preliminary Problems / Yvor Winters -- The Mode Of Existence Of The Literary Work / René Wellek -- [symbolic Action] / Kenneth Burke -- The Intentional Fallacy / W.k. Wimsatt, Jr., Monroe C. Beardsley -- Literature And Biography / Boris Tomashevsky -- What Is An Author? / Michel Foucault -- Tradition And The Individual Talent / T.s. Eliot -- On Literary Evolution / Jurij Tynjanov -- The Dialectics Of Poetic Tradition / Harold Bloom -- (cont.) Philosophical Investigations, Sec.156-67, 197-203 / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Conventions / Raymond Williams -- Literary Genres / Tzvetan Todorov -- Linguistics And Literary History / Leo Spitzer -- The Heresy Of Paraphrase / Cleanth Brooks -- The Status Of Style / Nelson Goodman -- Distance And Point-of-view : An Essay In Classification / Wayne C. Booth -- Discourse Typology In Prose / Mixail Baxtin -- Elements Of A Narrative Grammar / A.j. Greimas -- What Is A Text? : Explanation And Understanding / Paul Ricoeur -- Demonstration Vs. Persuasion : Two Models Of Critical Activity / Stanley Fish -- Psychoanalysis And The Polis / Julia Kristeva -- (cont.) The Reading Process : A Phenomenological Approach / Wolfgang Iser -- The Writer's Audience Is Always A Fiction / Walter J. Ong -- Introduction (0.1, 0.2) / Umberto Eco -- Taste And The Reproduction Of Art / Benedetto Croce -- Reasons And Judgments / Monroe C. Beardsley -- Contingencies Of Value / Barbara Herrnstein Smith. Edited By Vassilis Lambropoulos, David Neal Miller. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 508-513.