Preface. Part I: Critical and Social Theory: . 1. Critical Theory: General: S. Sim (University of Sunderland). 2. Rhetoric and Deconstruction: R. Jarvis (University of the West of England, Bristol).

3. Semiotics: A. Page. 4. Hermeneutics: K. Littau. 5. Intertextuality: G.

Allen. 6. Psychoanalysis: V. Lebeau (University of Sussex). 7. Feminism: S. Mills (Loughborough University). with K.

Burlinson, A. Sandhu, P. Polkey, J. Goldman, V. Kolocotroni, L. Brimstone and M. Metzstein. 8.

Historicism: T. Pinkney (Lancaster University). 9. Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory: P. Williams (Nottingham Trent University). 10. Art History: J. Harris (University of Keele).

11. Popular Music: D. Buckley (Munich). 12. Media Theory: D. Longhurst. Part II: An International Perspective of Critical and Cultural Theory: . 13.

Speechless Monads, Power-Free Discourse and Techno Trance: Critical and Cultural Theory in Germany Today: R. Emig. 14. Feminism and Theory in Italy: S. Wood. 15. Althusser After Marxism: S. Smith.

16. Modern Western Literary Theories and Russian Cultural Policy (1930s-1990s): A. V. Lashkevitch. 17. Specific Interliterary Communities and the Comparative Study of Literature: Y. Azarov. 18.

Home of Memory: Hospitality, Closure and Eastern Europe: T. Slawek. 19. Post-1989 Bulgarian Literary Theory and Criticism: T Stoicheva. Index to Part I.