The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Philosophical and Aesthetic foundations of Literary theories ..........1 Kant, Hegal, and Literary Theory .......3 From Romanticism and Young Hegelianism to Nietzsche..............9 2. Anglo-American New Criticism and Russian Formalism ..........17 Kant and Croce in the New criticism ......19 Russian Formalism between kantianism and the Avant - Garde .......24 The Aborted Dialogue between marxists and Formalists ..............32 3. Czech structuralism between Kant, Hegel , and the Avant-Garde..........36 Roman Jakobson`s and Jan mukarovsky`s Kantianism .....38 Hegel and the avant -garde in Mukarovsky`s Theory..............43 Symbol and aesthetic Object: From Mukarovsky to vodicka ............49 4. Problems of Reader-Response criticism from Hermeneutics to phenomenology ..........55 From gadamer to Jauss: The hermeneutics of reader-Response ..............57 From Ingarden to Iser: The Phenomenological Perspective ......66 Stanley Fish`s Alternatie ..................75 5. From Marxism to Critical Theory and Postmodernism ...............81 Marx, Lukacs and Goldmann: Hegelian Aesthetics ................83 Benjamin and Adorno between kant and Hegel .........94 Mikhail M. Bakhtin`s Young hegelian Aesthetics ........104 Marxist Aesthetics in a Postmodern world .......108 6. The Aesthetics of Semiotics : Greimas , eco, Barthes .............141 The philosophical Origins of deconstruction : From platonism and Hegelianism to Nietzsche and Heidegger .........143 Derrida`s Romantic and Nietzchean heritage ........148 Paul de man ..........158 Geoffery H. Hartman : Negativity, Delay, Indeterminacy .......169 8. Lyotard`s Postmodern Aesthetics and Kant`s Notion of the Sublime ......174 From Kant to Lyotard ..........175 Lyotard and de man : The Sublime, Allegory, and Aporia ....182 9. Towards a Critical Theory of Literature ........189 Literary theory between kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche ........191 Towards a Critical Theory of Literature ..........205