The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism VOLUME 9 Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism general editors Professor H. B. Nisbet University of Cambridge Professor Claude Rawson Yale University The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism will provide a com- prehensive historical account of Western literary criticism from class- ical antiquity to the present day, dealing with both literary theory and critical practice. The History is intended as an authoritative work of reference and exposition, but more than a mere chronicle of facts. While remaining broadly non-partisan it will, where ap- propriate, address controversial issues of current critical debate without evasion or false pretences of neutrality. Each volume is a self-contained unit designed to be used independently as well as in conjunction with the others in the series. Substantial bibliographical material in each volume will provide the foundation for further study of the subjects in question. volumes published Volume 1: Classical Criticism, edited by George A. Kennedy Volume 2: The Middle Ages, edited by Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson Volume 3: The Renaissance, edited by Glyn Norton Volume 4: The Eighteenth Century, edited by H. B. Nisbet and Claude Rawson Volume 5: Romanticism, edited by Marshall Brown Volume 7: Modernism and the New Criticism, edited by A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey Volume 8: From Formalism to Poststructuralism, edited by Raman Selden Volume 9: Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives, edited by Christa Knellwolf and Christopher Norris Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism VOLUME 9 Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives Edited by Christa Knellwolf and Christopher Norris Assistant Editor Jessica Osborn Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 8ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521317252 © Cambridge University Press 2001 This book is in copyright. 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Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Contents Notes on contributors viii Introduction 1 Christa Knellwolf and Christopher Norris history 1 Historicism and historical criticism 17 Paul Hamilton 2 Literary criticism and the history of ideas 31 Timothy Bahti 3 Cultural materialism 43 John Drakakis 4 New historicism 59 Duncan Salkeld 5 Fascist politics and literary criticism 71 Ortwin de Graef, Dirk De Geest and Eveline Vanfraussen marxism and post-marxism 6 Marxism and literary criticism 89 Alex Callinicos 7 Marxism and poststructuralism 99 Michael Ryan 8 Adorno and the early Frankfurt School 109 Andrew Edgar 9 The ‘German–French’ debate: critical theory, hermeneutics and deconstruction 121 Andrew Bowie v Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 vi Contents 10 Post-war Italian intellectual culture: from Marxism to cultural studies 133 Renate Holub from cultural poetics to cultural studies 11 Mikhail Bakhtin: historical becoming in language, literature and culture 145 Ken Hirschkop 12 Cultural studies 155 Chris Weedon 13 Literature and the institutional context in Britain 165 Gary Day psychoanalytic approaches 14 Literary criticism and psychoanalytic positions 175 Rainer Emig gender and sexuality 15 The history of feminist criticism 193 Christa Knellwolf 16 Feminism and deconstruction 207 Diane Elam 17 Gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer and transgender criticism 217 Joseph Bristow colonialism, post-coloniality, nation and race 18 Post-colonial theory 237 Firdous Azim 19 African American literary history and criticism 249 Simon Lee-Price 20 Anthropological criticism 265 Brian Coates modernity and postmodernism 21 Modernism, modernity, modernisation 277 Robert Holub Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Contents vii 22 Postmodernism 289 Patricia Waugh philosophy, aesthetics and literary criticism 23 Words and things in phenomenology and existentialism 309 Clive Cazeaux 24 Criticism, aesthetics and analytic philosophy 323 Peter Lamarque 25 Italian idealism 335 Stephen Moller 26 Spanish and Spanish American poetics and criticism 349 Manuel Barbeito Varela 27 American neopragmatism and its background 359 Dan Latimer 28 Ethics and literary criticism 371 Geoffrey Galt Harpham interdisciplinary approaches 29 Literature and theology 389 Kevin Mills 30 Literary theory, science and philosophy of science 401 Christopher Norris Bibliography 419 Index 461 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Notes on contributors Firdous Azim is a Professor in the Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her areas of specialisation are feminism and post- colonialism. Her book, The Colonial Rise of the Novel (1993), traces the links between the colonial venture and the development of the novelistic form. Her current work is on English writing in nineteenth-century Bengal. Timothy Bahti is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the author of Allegories of History: Literary Historiography After Hegel (1992) and Ends of the Lyric: Direction and Consequence in Western Poetry (1996). He is presently writing a monograph on styles of paradox in modern German-Jewish writing, and a theory of the lyric. Manuel Barbeito is a Professor of Literary History at the University of Santiago, Spain. He has published a book on W. H. Auden (1988) and has edited Paradise Lost: The Word, the World, the Words (1991) and Modernity, Modernism, Postmodernism (2000). He is currently completing a work enti- tled El drama de la identidad en siete obras de la tradición literaria inglesa, and editing a book in honour of Terry Eagleton. Andrew Bowie is Professor of German at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Aesthetics and Subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche (1990, new revised edition 2000), Schelling and Modern European Philosophy (1993), and From Romanticism to Critical Theory: The Philosophy of German Literary Theory (1997). He has also translated and edited F. W. J. von Schelling, On the History of Modern Philosophy (1994), F. D. E. Schleiermacher, Hermeneutics and Criticism and Other Texts (1998), and edited the book, Manfred Frank: The Subject and the Text (1997). He is at present writing books on music, meaning and modernity, on crossing the divide between European and analytical philosophy, and on German philoso- phy from Kant to Habermas. Joseph Bristow is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Effeminate England: Homoerotic Writing After viii Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Notes on contributors ix 1885 (1995) and Sexuality (1997). He has edited several volumes, most recently The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (2000). He is cur- rently at work on a full-length study of Victorian poetry, sex, and sexuality. Alex Callinicos is Professor of Politics at the University of York. He has written extensively on Marxism and social theory. Among his many books are Making History (1987), Against Postmodernism (1989), Theories and Narratives (1995), and Social Theory (1999). He has recently completed a book on equality. Clive Cazeaux is Senior Lecturer in Aesthetics at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. He is the editor of The Continental Aesthetics Reader (2000) and the author of articles on metaphor, synaesthesia, and the relation- ship between art and writing. Brian Coates is a Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Limerick. His most recent publications include two art catalogue essays, ‘Deidre O’Mahony, Erratics’ (1996) and ‘Lingua occulorum’ (1997). He is a joint editor (with Joachim Fischer and Patricia Lynch) of the IASIL Conference Proceedings 1998 on Irish writing 1798–1998 (forthcoming 2000). Gary Day is a Principal Lecturer at De Montfort University. He is the editor of the three volume Literature and Culture in Modern Britain series (Longman). He is also the author of Re-Reading Leavis: ‘Culture’ and Literary Criticism (1996) and the forthcoming book Class. John Drakakis is Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling. He is the general editor of Routledge English Texts and the New Critical Idiom series. He is the editor of Alternative Shakespeares (1985), Shakespearean Tragedy