Preface | p. VIII |
Marxist criticism in the 1930s | p. 1 |
The Great Depression | p. 1 |
Socialism and Communism in America | p. 2 |
Marxist philosophy and aesthetics | p. 5 |
A pioneer American Marxist project | p. 7 |
An exemplary Marxist career | p. 9 |
The Frankfurt School in America during the 1930s | p. 15 |
Cultural politics: " New Criticism" versus Marxism | p. 17 |
The "New Criticism" | p. 21 |
The emergence and growth of the new Critical School | p. 21 |
The fundamentals of a formalist poetics | p. 23 |
Formalist protocols and "close reading" | p. 24 |
Pedagogical missions | p. 31 |
Inside and outside New Criticism: an exemplary case | p. 35 |
New Critical Formalism defended in latter days | p. 39 |
East European and American New Critical formalism | p. 45 |
The Chicago School | p. 52 |
Pedagogical foundations and the rise of theory | p. 52 |
Neo-Aristotelian poetics | p. 55 |
Critical method | p. 58 |
The pluralist line | p. 62 |
On the marks and influence of the Chicago School | p. 66 |
The New York Intellectuals | p. 70 |
The formation of the School | p. 70 |
Marxist politics and beyond | p. 72 |
The enterprise of cultural criticism | p. 74 |
Psychoanalytical supplement | p. 79 |
The focus on modern literature | p. 85 |
Theories of American literature | p. 89 |
On the institutionalization of criticism and literature | p. 94 |
Myth criticism | p. 100 |
Perspectives on myth in the modern era | p. 100 |
Varieties of mythopoetics | p. 104 |
Of divination, desecration, and wonder | p. 111 |
Systematics of myth criticism | p. 118 |
Myth criticism and the institution of literary studies | p. 124 |
Phenomenological and existential criticism | p. 128 |
Early Cold War times: from the Atomic to the Space Age | p. 128 |
Continental philosophy in America | p. 130 |
Phenomenological criticism Geneva style | p. 133 |
Phenomenological criticism pluralized | p. 137 |
From existential phenomenology to Christian existentialism | p. 143 |
Utopian existential criticism | p. 147 |
Continental philosophy in America: the first and second waves | p. 152 |
Hermeneutics | p. 157 |
The Vietnam era | p. 157 |
Heidegger's hermeneutical revolution | p. 161 |
Hermeneutics new and old | p. 162 |
Destructive hermeneutics | p. 169 |
Hermeneutics after deconstrution | p. 175 |
Reader-response criticism | p. 181 |
The era of the reader | p. 181 |
Reading: from phenomenology to poststructuralism | p. 183 |
Psychoanalysis of readers | p. 188 |
The subject of pedagogy | p. 191 |
Reading as resistance: feminism and Marxism | p. 194 |
German reception theory in America | p. 198 |
The changing university | p. 201 |
Literary structuralism and semiotics | p. 203 |
Progenitors and progenies | p. 203 |
Linguistics and semiotics of poetic discourse | p. 207 |
Narratology: from syntax to rhetoric to discourse | p. 211 |
The conventions and codes of reading | p. 215 |
The discipline of semiotics | p. 220 |
Deconstrutive criticism | p. 228 |
The emergence and formation of deconstructive criticism | p. 228 |
Theories of language after structuralism | p. 230 |
Beyond phenomenology | p. 236 |
Double reading, misreading, misprision | p. 241 |
Psychoanalysis, post structuralism, deconstruction | p. 246 |
Deconstruction, feminism, politics: the social text | p. 253 |
Interpellating deconstructive criticism | p. 257 |
Feminist criticism | p. 262 |
Feminist criticism and the women's movement | p. 262 |
The focus on women's literature | p. 265 |
Critical method, literary theory, politics | p. 269 |
French psychoanalytical theory: L'Écriture féminine | p. 273 |
The institution of women's studies | p. 277 |
Black aesthetics | p. 283 |
The black liberation movement during the Cold War era | p. 283 |
The Black Aesthetic | p. 285 |
Critical practices and theory | p. 292 |
Black feminist criticism | p. 298 |
Ethnic studies in the university | p. 305 |
Cultural criticism from the 1960s to the 1980s | p. 312 |
Legacies of the new left and the Movement | p. 312 |
Assaulting the institution of literary studies | p. 316 |
European Neo-Marxism and dialectical theory | p. 323 |
The politics of " theory" | p. 326 |
Left deconstructionist critism | p. 333 |
Post-Marxist cultural criticism | p. 336 |
Cultural studies in the academy | p. 341 |
The fragmentation of leftist criticism | p. 345 |
American criticism since 1987 | p. 347 |
The case of Paul de Man | p. 347 |
Returns to history: new historicisms and postcolonial theory | p. 348 |
Globalization, the University Excellence, and postmodern culture | p. 350 |
Minority identity poetics: ethnic studies and queer theory | p. 351 |
Cultural wars, PC, and public intellectuals | p. 359 |
Resistance to hegemony: cultural studies | p. 362 |
The disorganization of theory | p. 366 |
Notes | p. 371 |
Index | p. 399 |
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