Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Volume 1

Recent years have seen a remarkable growth of interest in critical and cultural theory, with a wealth of books and articles being published in the field. To evaluate this work, Blackwell has produced a major annual publication, The Year′s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. In 1981 the new compendium′s parent volume, The Year′s Work in English Studies, first began to cover literary theory in a separate section – embracing such areas as poetics, semiotics, hermeneutics, structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxism and feminism. In the years that followed the critical debate in literary studies broadened considerably and there are now several areas of theory, including postmodernism and post–colonial discourse, which are not reviewed in The Year′s Work in English Studies. The new book therefore covers an area that continues to grow and expand, and it has been designed to appeal to readers in many other disciplines – such as media studies and cultural studies. Many of the works reviewed fall outside the traditional boundaries of "English studies".

Part I: The Year′s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory: . 1. Critical Theory: General: S. Sim (University of Sunderland). 2. Rhetoric and Deconstruction: R. Jarvis (University of the West of England, Bristol). 3. Psychoanalysis: V. Lebeau (University of Sussex). 4. Feminism: S. Mills (University of Loughborough) with V. Bell; L. Brimstone; K. Burlinson; J. Goldman; H. Ingman; V. Kolocotroni; M. Metzstein; A. Sandhu. 5. Historicism: T. Pinkney (University of Lancaster). 6. Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory: P. Williams (Nottingham Trent University). 7. Art History: J. Harris (Leeds Metropolitan University). 8. Popular Music: D. Buckley, Neubiberg. Books Received (for 1992). Part II: Barbarian at the Gate: Essays in Honour of Terry Eagleton: . 9. The Ballad of Terry Eagleton: F. Eden. 10. The December Group: Terry Eagleton and the New Left Church: A. Cunningham (University of Lancaster). 11. Memories of Underdevelopment: Teaching Shakespeare in 1969: P. O′Flinn (Oxford Brookes University). 12. Changes: A Critical Survey of Terry Eagleton′s Work: G. Wade, Athens. 13. The Sign of Value: Reflections on Eagleton and Aesthetic Value: E. Larrissy (University of Warwick). 14. The Poetry of the Meantime: Terry Eagleton and the Politics of Style: S. Connor (Birbeck College, London). 15. Ideology : A Review: C. Norris (University of Wales, College of Cardiff). 16. Brother Tel: The Politics of Eagletonism: W. Maley (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London). 17. Iron on the Shoulder: For Young Terry at 50: A. Easthope (Manchester Metropolitan University). 18. For a Pilgrim of Hope: J. Goode. Index to Part I.

Stephen Regan is Tutor in Literature at Ruskin College, Oxford. His publications include a book on Philip Larkin and he is the editor of The Politics of Pleasure: Aesthetics and Cultural Theory. Elaine Treharne is Lecturer in English Language at the University of Leicester.