For students and scholars of literary theory, this unique volume
provides organized access to a diverse body of literature. The
5,523 entries include listings of books, articles, and
dissertations culled from such sources as the "MLA International
Bibliography," "Dissertation Abstracts," "Language and Language
Behavior Abstracts," and the annual bibliography of the Modern
Humanities Research Association. . . . Researchers can look forward
to a "Dictionary of Critical Theory," and a "Handbook of Critical
Theory" by the same author within the next two years. Recommended,
for its comprehensive coverage and currency, to graduate-level
collections. "Choice"
Encompassing the variety of critical theories, the theoretical
approaches, or schools influenced by continental theorists and
philosophers that came to prominence beginning in the mid-1960s,
this volume contains substantial, representative, and indexed
bibliographies to assist researchers of specific topics in critical
theory or those seeking works by major theorists. Nearly
all-inclusive for the 1965-1987 period--a number of important works
through August 1988 are also listed--the more than 5,500 works
include books, articles, and dissertations available in English,
French, or German and range from introductory to advanced levels;
350 of the works are listed in more than one section for the user's
convenience. Readers are guided to appropriate works by the
user-friendly, twelve-major-section format that classifies works on
theory following the generally accepted names of current critical
approaches including: structuralism, semiotics, narratology,
psychological criticism, sociological criticism, feminist
criticism, reader response criticism, reception aesthetics,
phenomenological criticism, hermeneutics and deconstruction,
post-structuralist, and post-deconstructive criticism. Each section
has an index and may be used independently of the other sections.
These section indexes are grouped together following the Classified
Bibliography. Two additional indexes, a general index that aids in
locating works covering more than one theory or that have not been
classified into one of the theories, and an author index that
applies to the entire bibliography, complete the volume.
Sources for the bibliography include annual bibliographies of
the MLA, the MHRA, and such works as "Dissertations Abstracts
International" and "Language and Language Behavior Abstracts" as
well as database searches for topics, keywords, and theorists.
Companion volumes to this work, "A Dictionary of Critical Theory"
and "A Handbook of Critical Theory" will be published within the
next two years by Greenwood Press.
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