American Literary Criticism since the 1930s

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Preface	p. VIII
Marxist criticism in the 1930s	p. 1
The Great Depression	p. 1
Socialism and Communism in America	p. 2
Marxist philosophy and aesthetics	p. 5
A pioneer American Marxist project	p. 7
An exemplary Marxist career	p. 9
The Frankfurt School in America during the 1930s	p. 15
Cultural politics: " New Criticism" versus Marxism	p. 17
The "New Criticism"	p. 21
The emergence and growth of the new Critical School	p. 21
The fundamentals of a formalist poetics	p. 23
Formalist protocols and "close reading"	p. 24
Pedagogical missions	p. 31
Inside and outside New Criticism: an exemplary case	p. 35
New Critical Formalism defended in latter days	p. 39
East European and American New Critical formalism	p. 45
The Chicago School	p. 52
Pedagogical foundations and the rise of theory	p. 52
Neo-Aristotelian poetics	p. 55
Critical method	p. 58
The pluralist line	p. 62
On the marks and influence of the Chicago School	p. 66
The New York Intellectuals	p. 70
The formation of the School	p. 70
Marxist politics and beyond	p. 72
The enterprise of cultural criticism	p. 74
Psychoanalytical supplement	p. 79
The focus on modern literature	p. 85
Theories of American literature	p. 89
On the institutionalization of criticism and literature	p. 94
Myth criticism	p. 100
Perspectives on myth in the modern era	p. 100
Varieties of mythopoetics	p. 104
Of divination, desecration, and wonder	p. 111
Systematics of myth criticism	p. 118
Myth criticism and the institution of literary studies	p. 124
Phenomenological and existential criticism	p. 128
Early Cold War times: from the Atomic to the Space Age	p. 128
Continental philosophy in America	p. 130
Phenomenological criticism Geneva style	p. 133
Phenomenological criticism pluralized	p. 137
From existential phenomenology to Christian existentialism	p. 143
Utopian existential criticism	p. 147
Continental philosophy in America: the first and second waves	p. 152
Hermeneutics	p. 157
The Vietnam era	p. 157
Heidegger's hermeneutical revolution	p. 161
Hermeneutics new and old	p. 162
Destructive hermeneutics	p. 169
Hermeneutics after deconstrution	p. 175
Reader-response criticism	p. 181
The era of the reader	p. 181
Reading: from phenomenology to poststructuralism	p. 183
Psychoanalysis of readers	p. 188
The subject of pedagogy	p. 191
Reading as resistance: feminism and Marxism	p. 194
German reception theory in America	p. 198
The changing university	p. 201
Literary structuralism and semiotics	p. 203
Progenitors and progenies	p. 203
Linguistics and semiotics of poetic discourse	p. 207
Narratology: from syntax to rhetoric to discourse	p. 211
The conventions and codes of reading	p. 215
The discipline of semiotics	p. 220
Deconstrutive criticism	p. 228
The emergence and formation of deconstructive criticism	p. 228
Theories of language after structuralism	p. 230
Beyond phenomenology	p. 236
Double reading, misreading, misprision	p. 241
Psychoanalysis, post structuralism, deconstruction	p. 246
Deconstruction, feminism, politics: the social text	p. 253
Interpellating deconstructive criticism	p. 257
Feminist criticism	p. 262
Feminist criticism and the women's movement	p. 262
The focus on women's literature	p. 265
Critical method, literary theory, politics	p. 269
French psychoanalytical theory: L'Écriture féminine	p. 273
The institution of women's studies	p. 277
Black aesthetics	p. 283
The black liberation movement during the Cold War era	p. 283
The Black Aesthetic	p. 285
Critical practices and theory	p. 292
Black feminist criticism	p. 298
Ethnic studies in the university	p. 305
Cultural criticism from the 1960s to the 1980s	p. 312
Legacies of the new left and the Movement	p. 312
Assaulting the institution of literary studies	p. 316
European Neo-Marxism and dialectical theory	p. 323
The politics of " theory"	p. 326
Left deconstructionist critism	p. 333
Post-Marxist cultural criticism	p. 336
Cultural studies in the academy	p. 341
The fragmentation of leftist criticism	p. 345
American criticism since 1987	p. 347
The case of Paul de Man	p. 347
Returns to history: new historicisms and postcolonial theory	p. 348
Globalization, the University Excellence, and postmodern culture	p. 350
Minority identity poetics: ethnic studies and queer theory	p. 351
Cultural wars, PC, and public intellectuals	p. 359
Resistance to hegemony: cultural studies	p. 362
The disorganization of theory	p. 366
Notes	p. 371
Index	p. 399
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