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Feminine Fictions
‘Postmodernism’ and ‘feminism’ have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waugh addresses the relationship between feminist and postmodernist writing and theory through the insights of psychoanalysis and in the context of the development of modern fiction in Britain and America. She attempts to uncover the reasons why women writers have been excluded from the considerations of postmodern art. Her route takes her through the theorization of self offered by Freud and Lacan and on to the con...
Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction
Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It is designed for students at the undergraduate level or for others needing a broad synthesis of the long history of literary theory. An introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the major issues within literary theory and criticism; further chapters survey theory and criticism in antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth century. For twentieth- and twenty-first-century theory, the discussion is subdivided into separate chapters on formalist, historicist, political, and psychoanalytic approaches. The final chapter applies a variety of theoretical concepts and approaches to two famous works of literature: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Metafiction
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Modern Literary Theory
The new edition of this core text has been thoroughly revised and updated in light of the latest developments in the field. Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory, the text includes those essays and documents that are essential reading for students of literature andcritical theory. The original structure of the book has been improved and new material has been added, including extracts from the writings of Marx, Freud, and de Beauvoir, and a new section devoted to contemporary critical debates and issues.
Future Theory
By interrogating the terms and concepts most central to cultural change, Future Theory interrogates how theory can play a central role in dynamic transition. It demonstrates how entangled the highly politicized spheres of cultural production, scientific invention, and intellectual discourse are in the contemporary world and how new concepts and forms of thinking are crucial to embarking upon change. Future Theory is built around five key concepts – boundaries, organization, rupture, novelty, futurity – examined by leading international thinkers to build a vision of how theory can be applied to a constantly shifting world.
Postmodernism
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Practising Postmodernism, Reading Modernism
Instead of accepting postmodernism on its own terms as a radical break with previous Western modes of knowledge and representation, it is more fruitful, Patricia Waugh argues, to view it as a late phase in a tradition of aestheticist thought inaugurated by philosophers such as Kant and embodied in Romantic and modernist art.
The Arts and Sciences of Criticism
1. Introduction, David Fuller and Patricia WaughPart I: Criticism and the History and Philosophy of Science 2. Revising the Two Cultures Debate: Science, Literature and Value, Patricia Waugh3. Science, Interpretation and Criticism, David Cooper4. Evidence-based and Evidence-free Generalisations: a Tale of Two Cultures, Raymond Tallis5. Science and the Self: Lacan's doctrine of the Signifier, Jacques BerthoudPart II: Criticism and the Aesthetic 6. Poetry as Literary Criticism, Michael O'Neill7. Criticism and Creation, David Lodge8. Writing Autobiography, Doris Lessing9. Beneath Interpretation.
Revolutions of the Word
This Reader is the first of its kind to offer access to important intellectual contexts that have helped to mold the production and reception of twentieth-century literature. Representing such fields as the philosophy of science, theories of knowledge, anthropology, psychoanalysis, religion, and social and political theory, the manifestos, essays, and excerpts are surrounded with substantial editorial commentary and section introductions throughout.
Feminism and Autobiography
Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory. Whilst exemplifying the very different levels of autobiographical activity going on in feminist studies, the contributions chart a movement from autobiography as genre to autobiography as cultural practice, and from the analysis of autobiographical texts to a preoccupation with autobiography as method.
