Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and TheoryCall Number: PN94 C695 2002
Publication Date: 2002
This work contains over 100 relatively short, signed essays on key philosophers and literary figures who have contributed to the development of theory, critical theorists and schools from the Enlightenment to date that have been grouped into three clusters: (1) Critical Discourse in Europe, (2) Theories and Practices of Criticism in North America, and (3) Criticism, Literary and Cultural Studies in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Topics range from Kant and Coleridge to Said and Greenblatt; from Russian formalism and the Cambridge School to film studies, cultural materialism, and lesbian and gay studies, including queer theory. The volume also provides essays that examine seminal journals in the development of critical theory (for example, Cahiers du Cinema, Screen, and Tel Quel). A bibliography of works cited and further reading follows each essay. A useful glossary of critical terms, a list of contributors, and an index appear at the back of the volume.