Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgements xv Introduction 1 David H. Richter Part I Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry 9 1 British and American New Criticism 11 William E. Cain 2 Chicago Formalism 24 David H. Richter 3 Russian Formalism 36 David Gorman 4 Structuralism and Semiotics 48 Marina Grishakova 5 Stylistics 60 Michael Toolan 6 Contemporary Narrative Theory 72 James Phelan Part II The Task of Reading 85 7 The Intention Debates 87 Peter J. Rabinowitz 8 Deconstruction 100 Christopher Norris 9 Reader?Response Theory 114 David S. Miall 10 Empathy Studies 126 Suzanne Keen 11 Contemporary Proposals about Reading in the Digital Age 139 Rachel Sagner Buurma and Matthew K. Gold Part III Literary Locations and Cultural Studies 151 12 The Location of Literature 153 John Guillory 13 The Verbal and the Visual 165 James A. W.

Heffernan 14 Foucault and Poststructuralism 176 Alan D. Schrift 15 Cultural Studies 188 Paul Smith Part IV The Politics of Literature 203 16 Nothing If Not Determined: Marxian Criticism in History 205 Robert Kaufman 17 The Frankfurt School and Its Successors 218 Jeffrey T. Nealon 18 Althusser: Structuralist or Anti?Structuralist? 229 Warren Montag 19 New Historicism and Cultural Materialism 238 Neema Parvini 20 Emmanuel Levinas and Giorgio Agamben: Ethics, Aesthetics, Poetics, Politics 250 Thomas Carl Wall 21 Postcolonial Theory 261 Siraj Ahmed 22 Globalization Studies 275 Diana Brydon Part V Identities 289 23 Race/Literature/Theory 291 James Braxton Peterson 24 Ethnic Studies: Reading Otherwise 302 Ron Scapp 25 Anglophone Feminisms 314 Robyn Warhol 26 Gender Theory: Femininities and Masculinities 325 Margaret Galvan 27 Queer Theory 336 Steven F. Kruger 28 Disability Studies 348 Christopher Krentz 29 Trauma Studies 360 Michelle Balaev Part VI Bodies and Their Minds 373 30 Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism 375 Daniel T. O'Hara 31 Lacanian Psychoanalytic Criticism 385 Karen Coats 32 Archetypal Criticism: Jung and Frye 396 Glen Robert Gill 33 Cognitive Literary Criticism 408 G. Gabrielle Starr Part VII Scientific Inflections 423 34 Evolutionary Literary Theory 425 Joseph Carroll 35 Ecocriticism: The Expanding Universe 439 Harold Fromm 36 Cybernetics and Posthumanism 451 Thomas Foster Index 463.