This volume assesses the current state of Literacy Theory and
examines the issues to be addressed by future research. The essays
cover established theoretical perspectives and debates and also
examine the changing face of literacy studies in the modern world.
They include: Essays on deconstruction; New historicism: Reception
theory; Sociology and literature; Modernism and post modernism;
Marxism and literature; Feminist literary theory; Psychoanalytic
literary theory, and the relevance of race and imperialism to the
study of literature.
The contributors are distinguished, internationally renowned
critics, and are widely recognized as leaders in their fields. They
include Homi Bhabha, Peter Burger, Stephen Greenblatt, Hans Robert
Jauss, Ann Jefferson, Barbara Johnson, Sarah Kofman, Julia
Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, Elaine Showalter, Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak, Robert Weimann and Albrecht Wellmer.
This outstanding volume will be of great interest to students
and academics in literature and modern languages, linguistics,
philosophy, cultural studies and women's studies.
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