Modern North American criticism and theory a critical guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2006)
"First published as part of The Edinburgh encyclopaedia of modern criticism and theory in 2002"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface; 1. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839±1914) and Semiotics; 2. The New Criticism; 3. The Chicago School; 4. Northrop Frye (1912±1991); 5. The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism; 6. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Norman Holland (1927±), Stanley Fish (1938±) and David Bleich (1940±); 7. The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller (1928±), Geoffrey Hartman (1929±), Harold Bloom (1930±), Paul de Man (1919±1983); 8. Deconstruction in America; 9. Fredric Jameson (1934±) and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism; 10. Edward W. Said (1935±2003)
Focusing on the growth and expansion of critical trends and methodologies, this book offers an introduction to the literary theory in North America. With essays addressing key figures in their historical and cultural contexts, it depicts the change, transformation, and the quest for and affirmation of multiple cultural voices and identities