Introduction
Chapter 1 Reading for Meaning: Practical Criticism and New Criticism
Chapter 2 Reading for Form and Function: Formalism and Early Structuralism, 1914-1960
Chapter 3 Reading for Form II: French Structuralism, 1950-1975
Chapter 4 Political Reading: Class, Gender, and Race in the 1970s and 1980s
Chapter 5 The Poststructuralist Revolution
Chapter 6 Literature and Culture: Cultural Studies, the New Historicism, Cultural Materialism
Chapter 7 Postcolonial Criticism and Theory
Chapter 8 Sexuality, Literature, Culture and Queer Studies
Chapter 9 Decentring the Human: Posthumanism, Ecocriticism, New Materialism, Animal Studies
Chapter 10 ‘Theory’, Post-Theory, New Challenges
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Hans Bertens is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and Past President of the International Comparative Literature Association. He has published in English and Dutch on postmodernism, American literature, and literary theory.
