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From Formalism to Poststructuralism

Series The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 8

Edited by Raman Selden

Publication Date 1995

Hardback ISBN-10
0521300134

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521300131

Overview

Volume 8 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism deals with the most influential and hotly debated areas of literary theory: those developing in Europe but having their main impact in the Anglo-American world of academic literary studies, whose course they have fundamentally redirected. The structuralism, poststructuralism, Russian formalism, semiotics, narratology, hermeneutics, phenomenology, reception theory, and speech act theory associated with European writers including Barthes, Todorov, Derrida, and Iser, are here described in the context of their original development, but with an eye also to their eventual influence; and the volume includes a reflective chapter by Richard Rorty on deconstruction. Incorporating full bibliographies, this volume engages systematically with the history of the twentieth century's most profound and extensive set of cross-cultural intellectual movements.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
Raman Selden

Russian Formalism
by
Peter Steiner

Structuralism: Its Rise, Influence and Aftermath

Reader-Oriented Theories of Interpretation

Bibliography

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