The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of theory in the 21st century. With chapters written by the world''s leading scholars in their field, this book explores the latest thinking in traditional schools such as feminist, Marxist, historicist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial criticism and new areas of research in ecocriticism, biopolitics, affect studies, posthumanism, materialism, and many other fields. In addition, the book includes a substantial A-to-Z compendium of key words and important thinkers in contemporary theory, making this an essential resource for scholars of literary and cultural theory at all levels.>

This book is an essential reference work on current thought and opinion on this topic, and both faculty and students of cultural and literary theory will enjoy perusal and deep exploration of its contents.

Préface
With chapters written by the world's leading scholars in their fields, this is a comprehensive survey of the cutting edge of literary and cultural theory in the 21st century.

Auteur
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is editor of the American Book Review, founding editor of the journal symploke, and executive director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.

Résumé
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of theory in the 21st century. With chapters written by the world's leading scholars in their field, this book explores the latest thinking in traditional schools such as feminist, Marxist, historicist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial criticism and new areas of research in ecocriticism, biopolitics, affect studies, posthumanism, materialism, and many other fields. In addition, the book includes a substantial A-to-Z compendium of key words and important thinkers in contemporary theory, making this an essential resource for scholars of literary and cultural theory at all levels.

Contenu
Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Theory in the New Millennium Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) Part One: Essays 1. Early Theory, Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina, USA) 2. Structuralism and Semiotics, Herman Rapaport (Wake Forest University, USA) 3. Narrative and Narratology, Gerald Prince (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 4. Marxism, Peter Hitchcock (City College of New York, USA) 5. Poststructuralism, Daniel T. O'Hara (Temple University, USA) 6. Historicisms, Harold Aram Veeser (City College of New York, USA) 7. Psychoanalytic Theory, Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 8. Rhetoric, Steven Mailloux (Loyola Marymount University, USA) 9. Deconstruction, Henry Sussman (Yale University, USA) 10. Feminism, Robin Truth Goodman (Florida State University, USA) 11. Cultural Studies, John Frow (University of Sydney, Australia) 12. Postmodernism, Jeffrey T. Nealon (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 13. Race and Postcolonial Studies, Nicole Simek (Whitman College, USA) 14. Ecocriticism, Claire Colebrook (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 15. Biopower and Biopolitics, Gregg Lambert (Syracuse University, USA) 16. Pop Culture, Aaron Jaffe (Florida State University, USA) 17. Comparativisms, Alexander Beecroft (University of South Carolina, USA) 18. Translation, Brian O'Keeffe (Barnard College, USA) 19. Media Studies, Toby Miller (Cardiff University, UK) 20. Digital Humanities, Joseph Tabbi (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA) 21. Late Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux (McMaster University, Canada) 22. Identity Studies, Mike Hill (State University of New York, Albany, USA) 23. Materialisms, Chris Breu (Illinois State University, USA) 24. Posthumanism, Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA) 25. University Studies, Jeffrey J. Williams (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 25. Affect Studies, Sean Grattan (University of Kent, UK) 26. Antitheory, Vincent Leitch (University of Oklahoma, USA) Part Two: Terms and Figures Index