Modern Literary Criticism and Theory/ a history
by M.A.R.Habib
- New Delhi: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
- viii,252p.
1. The first decades : from liberal humanism to formalism -- 2. Socially conscious criticism of the earlier twentieth century -- 3. Criticism and theory after the Second World War -- 4. The era of poststructuralism (I) : Later Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction -- 5. The era of poststructuralism (II) : postmodernism, modern feminism, gender studies -- 6. The later twentieth century : new historicism, reader-response theory, and postcolonial criticism -- 7. Cultural studies and film theory -- 8. Contemporary directions : the return of the public intellectual -- 9. Epilogue : the myth of liberal humanism.