Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory from Adorno to Zizek, providing an informative and reliable introduction to a vast, challenging area of inquiry. Materials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture.

Table of Contents:
Preface A Theodor W. Adorno African American Theory and Criticism 1. Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement 2. 1977 to 1990 3. The 1990s Giorgio Agamben B Alain Badiou Mikhail Bakhtin Étienne Balibar Roland Barthes Georges Bataille Jean Baudrillard Simone de Beauvoir Walter Benjamin Homi K. Bhabha Maurice Blanchot Pierre Bourdieu Judith Butler C Michel de Certeau Hélène Cixous Cultural Studies 1. United Kingdom 2. United States 3. Australia 4. Canada D Paul de Man Deconstruction 1. Derrida, de Man, and the Yale Critics 2. The 1980s and After Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari Jacques Derrida Discourse 1. Discourse Analysis 2. Discourse Theory E Terry Eagleton Ecocriticism Ethics F Frantz Fanon Feminist Theory and Criticism 1. From Movement Critique to Discourse Analysis 2. Anglo-American Feminisms 3. Poststructuralist Feminisms 4. Materialist Feminisms 5. 1990 and After Stanley Fish Michel Foucault Frankfurt School French Theory and Criticism: 1945 and After Sigmund Freud Northrop Frye G Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gender Paul Gilroy Globalization Antonio Gramsci Stephen Greenblatt H Stuart Hall Donna Haraway Martin Heidegger I Luce Irigaray J Fredric Jameson K Julia Kristeva L Jacques Lacan Law and Literature Emmanuel Levinas Linguistics and Language Georg Lukács Jean-François Lyotard M Marxist Theory and Criticism 1. Classical Marxism 2. Structuralist Marxism 3. 1989 and After Modernist Theory and Criticism Franco Moretti Multiculturalism N Jean-Luc Nancy Narratology National Literature Native Theory and Criticism 1. United States 2. Canada New Historicism P Phenomenology Postcolonial Studies 1. Origins to the 1980s 2. 1990 and After Postmodernism Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism 1. Traditional Freudian Criticism 2. Reconceptualizing Freud 3. The Post-Lacanians Q Queer Theory and Criticism 1. Gay Male 2. Lesbian 3. Queer Theory R Race and Ethnicity Jacques Rancière Reader-Response Criticism Reception Theory S Edward W. Said Ferdinand de Saussure Science Studies Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Semiotics Speech Acts Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Structuralism W Raymond Williams Z Slavoj Zizek List of Contributors Index of Names Index of Topics