【目录】

Introduction

Introducing your companion

Using the companion

Section 1 Guide to studying literature at university

Introduction

What type of guide is this

Is such a guide really necessary?

'Literary', 'primary', 'secondary': note on terminology

Getting organized

Your course of study

Preparing for courses

Getting the most from lectures, seminars and tutorials

Using the library

Reading literary texts

Reading and studying: general points

Reading prose fiction: novels, novellas and short stories

Reading drama

Reading poetry

Literary criticism

What is literary criticism?

How to find relevant criticism

Using criticism

Writing essays

Analysing the question

Formulating and structuring an argument

Applying literary theory in essays

Writing

Guidelines on presentation/style

Plagiarism and how to avoid it

Making a presentation

Exams

Preparation and revision

Taking exams

Section 2 Guide to the use of electronic resources1

Some introductory comments

Finding primary electronic information

Issues of reliability

Reading in the electronic age

Searching and analysing electronic texts

Finding secondary materials

Library catalogues

Online databases

Journals and periodicals

Searching the Internet for literary resources

Evaluating online secondary sources

Useful sites

Documenting electronic media

Revising and editing electronically

Safety measures

Section 3 Theories and approaches

Introduction: living with theory

Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain

Reinventing the wheel

The theoretical 'object'

Types of theory

Descriptive or prescriptive?

Literature-specific?

Butcher or biologist?

School or theory?

Chosen or thrust-upon?

Theory and method

A note on our groupings

Formalisms

Russian formalism

The Prague school

New Criticism

The hermeneutic tradition

Hermeneutics

Phenomenology

Reception theory

Reader-response criticism

Structuralism and its progeny

Structuralism

Semiology/semiotics2

Narratology

Post-structuralism

Deconstruction

Pragmatics and the reaction against structuralism

Speech act theory

Psychological and psychoanalytic theories

Psychoanalytic criticism

Archetypal criticism

Cognitive criticism

'Isms'

Marxist theory and criticism

The Frankfurt school

New historicism and cultural mate

Thing theory

Post-colonialism

Ecocriticism

Feminism

Queer theory

Section 4 Guide to literary theorists

AUERBACH, Erich(1892-1957)

BAKHTIN, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895-1975)

BARTHES, Roland(1915-80)

BEAUVOIR, Simone de (1908-86)

BENJAMIN, Walter(1892-1940)

BHABHA, Homi K. (1949-)

BLOOM, Harold(1930-)

BRECHT, Bertolt(1898-1956)

CIXOUS, Helene(1937-)

DERRIDA, Jacques(1930-2004)

EAGLETON, Terry(1943-)

ECO Umberto(1932-)

ELIOT, T[homas]S[tearns] (1888-1965)

EMPSON, Sir William(1906-84)

FISH, Stanley (1938-)

FOUCAULT Michel (1926-84)

FRYE, Northrop(1912-91)

GATES, Henry Louis Jr(1950-)

GENETTE, Gerard(1930-)

GILBERT, Sandra (1936-) and GUBAR, Susan(1944-)

GOLDMANN, Lucien (1913-70)

GREENBLATT, Stephen Jay (1943-)

HIRSCH, E[ric] D[onald] Jr(1928-)

HOLLAND, Norman. (1927-)

HOOKS, bell(1952-)

IRIGARAY, Luce(1932-)

ISER, Wolfgang(1926-2007)

JAKOBSON, Roman Osipovich(1896-1982)

JAMESON, Fredric R. (1934-)

JAUSS, Hans Robert(1921-97)

KRISTEVA, Julia(1941-)

LACAN, Jacques(1901-81)

LEAVIS, F[rank] R[aymond](1895-1978)

LEVINAS, Emmanuel(1905 [12 January 1906,Old Style]-1995)

LUKACS, Georg(Gyorgy)(1885-1971

LYOTARD, Jean-Francois(1924-98)

McGANN, Jerome(1937-)

de MAN, Paul(1919-83)

MILLER, J. Hillis(1928-)

MILLETT, Kate(1934-)

MORETTI, Franco(1950-)

PHELAN, James(1951-)8)

PROPP, Vladimir(1895-1970)

RICHARDS, I[vor] A[rmstrong](1893-1979)

RICOEUR, Paul (1913-2005)

SAID, Edward(1935-2003)

SAUSSURE, Ferdinand Mongin de(1857-1913)

SHKLOVSKY, Viktor Borisovich(1893-1984)

SHOWALTER, Elaine(1941-)

SPIVAK, Gayatri Chakravorty(1942-)

TODOROV, Tzvetan(1939-)

WELLEK, Rene(1903-95)

WHITE, Hayden V. (1928-)

WILLIAMS, Raymond (1921-88)

WOOLF, Virginia(1882-1941)

Section 5 Glossary of literary and theoretical terms

Bibliography

Index