The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory Book

The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory presents a short introduction to the problems, theories, and concepts of literary criticism, from Anglo-American New Criticism, to Deconstruction, to Postmodernism. The book argues that modern theories can only be properly understood when placed in the philosophical and aesthetic contexts in which they originated and evolved. The book ranges across not just the philosophical underpinnings of English literature, but also the critical literatures of Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Italy, and North America. For the first time, the major schools of literary theory-from Marxism to psychoanalysis to Critical Theory-are set within their philosophical contexts. The theorists discussed include Adorno, Bakhtin, Barthes, Benjamin, Croce, Derrida, Eco, Fish, Gadamer, Goldmann, Greimas, Hegel, Heidegger, Jakobson, Jameson, Jauss, Kant, Lukacs, Lyotard, de Man, Mannheim, Marx, and Nietszche.Read More