Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry; Chapter 1. British and American New Criticism (William Cain) -- Chapter 2. Chicago Formalism (David Richter) -- Chapter 3. Russian Formalism (David Gorman) -- Chapter 4. Structuralism and Semiotics (Marina Grishakova) -- Chapter 5. Stylistics (Michael Toolan) -- Chapter 6. Contemporary Narrative Theory (James Phelan) -- Part II: The Task of Reading; Chapter 7. The Intention Debates (Peter Rabinowitz) -- Chapter 8. Deconstruction (Christopher Norris) -- Chapter 9. Reader-Response Theory (David S. Miall) -- Chapter 10. Empathy Studies (Suzanne Keen) -- Chapter 11. Contemporary Proposals about Reading in the Digital Age (Matthew Gold and Rachel Sagner Buurma) -- Part III: Literary Locations and Cultural Studies; Chapter 12. The Location of Literature (John Guillory) -- Chapter 13. The Verbal and the Visual (James A.W. Heffernan) -- Chapter 14. Foucault and Poststructuralism (Alan D. Schrift) -- Chapter 15. Cultural Studies (Paul Smith) -- Part IV: The Politics of Literature; Chapter 16. Nothing if Not Determined: Marxian Criticism in History (Robert Kaufman) -- Chapter 17. The Frankfurt School and Its Successors (Jeffrey T. Nealon) -- Chapter 18. Althusser: Structuralist or Anti-Structuralist (Warren Montag) -- Chapter 19. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (Neema Parvini) -- Chapter 20. Emmanuel Levinas and Giorgio Agamben: Ethics, Aesthetics, Poetics, Politics (Thomas Carl Wall) -- Chapter 21. Postcolonial Theory (Siraj Ahmed) -- Chapter 22. Globalization Studies (Diana Brydon) -- Part V: Identities -- Chapter 23. Race/Literature/Theory (James Braxton Peterson) -- Chapter 24. Ethnic Studies: Reading Otherwise (Ron Scapp) -- Chapter 25. Anglophone Feminisms (Robyn Warhol) -- Chapter 26. Gender Theory: Femininities and Masculinities (Margaret Galvan) -- Chapter 27. Queer Theory (Steven Kruger) -- Chapter 28. Disability Studies (Christopher Krentz) -- Chapter 29. Trauma Studies (Michelle Balaev) -- Part VI: Bodies and Their Minds; Chapter 30. Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism (Daniel T. O'Hara) -- Chapter 31. Lacanian Psychoanalytic Criticism (Karen Coats) -- Chapter 32. Archetypal Criticism: Jung and Frye (Glen Robert Gill) -- Chapter 33. Cognitive Literary Criticism (Gabrielle Starr) -- Part VII. Scientific Inflections; Chapter 34. Evolutionary Literary Theory (Joseph Carroll) -- Chapter 35. Ecocriticism: The Expanding Universe (Harold Fromm) -- Chapter 36. Cybernetics and Posthumanism (Thomas Foster) -- Index.