preface
1. charles sanders peirce and semiotics
kenneth womack
2. the new criticism
charles altieri
3. the chicago school
william baker
4. northrop frye
imre salusinszky
5. the encounter with structuralism and the
invention of poststructuralism
mark currie
6. reception theory and reader-response:
norman holland, stanley fish and david bleich
jeremy lane
7. the yale critics? j. hillis miller, geoffrey hartman,
harold bloom, paul de man
ortwin de graef
8. deconstruction in america
. william flesch
9. fredric jameson and marxist literary and cultural criticism
carolyn lesjak
10. edward w. said
john kucich
11. american feminisms: images of women and gynocriticism
ruth robbins
12. feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s:
the encounter with poststructuralism and gender studies
megan becker.leckrone
13. psychoanalysis and literary criticism
megan becker.leckrone
14. feminists of colour
anne donadey
15. stephen greenblatt and the new historicism
virginia mason vaughan
16. lesbian and gay studies/queer theory
david van leer
17. postcolonial studies
malini johar schueller
18. cultural studies and multiculturalism
marcel cornis.pope
19. african-american studies
yun hsing wu
20. chicano/a literature
amelia marid de la luz montes
21. film studies
toby miller
22. feminist film studies and film theory
julian wolfreys
23. ethical criticism
kenneth womack
24. postmodemism
marcel cornis-pope
25. the role of journals in theoretical debate
kate flint
26. whiteness studies
betsy nies
27. masculinity and cultural studies
david alderson
28. comics studies
christopher eklund
29. anglophone canadian literary studies
fiona tolan
30. francophone canadian literature
elodie rousselot
contributors
index