1st Edition

Fifty Key Literary Theorists

By Richard J. Lane Copyright 2006
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Covering over a century's worth of debate, thinking and writing about literature, this is a unique guide to the lives and works of fifty theorists who have left an indelible mark on literary studies. Featuring theorists such as Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud and Edward Said, this accessible guide includes: a glossary of terms full cross-referencing for maximum ease of use... Read more

Preface  Baker, Houston A., Jr. (1943 –)  Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895 – 1975)  Barthes, Roland (1915 – 1980)  Baudrillard, Jean (1929 –)  Benjamin, Walter (1892 – 1940)  Bhabha, Homi (1949 –)  Bloom, Harold (1930 –)  Booth, Wayne C. (1921 –)  Butler, Judith (1956 –)  Cixous, Hélène (1937 –)  de Beauvoir, Simone (1908 – 1986)  Deleuze, Gilles (1925 – 1995) [and Guattari, Pierre Félix (1930 –)]  de Man, Paul (1919 – 1983)  Derrida, Jacques (1930 – 2004)  Eagleton, Terry (1943 –)  Empson, (Sir) William (1906 – 1984)  Fanon, Frantz Omar (1925 – 1961)  Felman, Shoshana (1942 –)  Fish, Stanley (1938 –)  Foucault, Michel (1920 – 1984)  Freud, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)  Frye, Northrop (1912 – 1991)  Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900 – 2003)  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (1950 –)  Genette, Gérard (1930 –)  Gilbert, Sandra Mortola (1936 –) [& Gubar, Susan David (1944 –)]  Gilroy, Paul (1956 –)  Greenblatt, Stephen (1943 –)  Haraway, Donna (1944 –)  Hartman, Geoffrey H. (1929 –)  Hutcheon, Linda (1947 –)  Irigaray, Luce (1934 –)  Iser, Wolfgang (1926 –)  Jakobsen, Roman Osipovisch (1896 – 1982)  Jameson, Fredric R. (1934 –)  Kermode, Frank (1919 –)  Kristeva, Julia (1941 –)  Lacan, Jacques  Marie Emile (1901 – 1981)  Leavis, Frank Raymond (1895 – 1978)  Lukács, Georg (György) (1885-1971)  Lyotard, Jean-François (1924 – 1998)  McLuhan, Herbert Marshall (1911 – 1980)  Propp, Vladimir Iakovlevich (1895 – 1970)  Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893 – 1979)  Ricoeur, Paul (1913 –)  Said, Edward W. (1935 –)  Showalter, Elaine (1941 –)  Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (1941 –)  Trilling, Lionel (1905 – 1975)  Žižek, Slavoj (1949 –)  Index

Biography

Richard J. Lane is Professor of English at Malaspina University-College, Canada. His previous publications include Jean Baudrillard (Routledge, 2001), Beckett and Philosophy (2002), Contemporary British Fiction (2003), and Reading Walter Benjamin (2005).