The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory
- New Delhi Bloomsbury 2017
- 263p
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