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Contents
preface v
introduction 1
Part One
CLASSIC TEXTS IN LITERARY CRITICISM 23
Plato 25
Republic, Book X 30
Ion 38From Phaedrus 46
dialogue with plato 50
Leo Tolstoy: From What Is Art? 52
Aristotle 55
Poetics 59
Horace 82
The Art of Poetry 84
Longinus 95From On the Sublime 97
Plotinus 109
On the Intellectual Beauty 111
Dante Alighieri 120
From theLetter to Can Grande della Scala 121
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Christine de Pisan 124
From the Querelle de la Rose 126
Sir Philip Sidney 132
An Apology for Poetry 135
John Dryden 160
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 163
Aphra Behn 189
An Epistle to the Readerfrom The Dutch Lover 192Preface to The Lucky Chance 195
Alexander Pope 198
An Essay on Criticism 199
Samuel Johnson 210
The Rambler, No. 4 212
Rasselas, Chapter 10 215
From Preface to Shakespeare 216
David Hume 231Of the Standard of Taste 234
dialogue with david hume 245
Barbara Herrnstein Smith: From Contingencies of Value 245
Immanuel Kant 247
From Critique of Judgment 251
Mary Wollstonecraft 275
FromA Vindication of the Rights of Woman 277
Germaine de Stal 285Essay on Fictions 287
On Women Writers 293
Friedrich von Schiller 298
From On Nave and Sentimental Poetry 300
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William Wordsworth 304
Preface toLyrical Ballads 306
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 319
Shakespeares Judgment Equal to His Genius 323
FromBiographia Literaria 325
John Keats 330
From aLetter to Benjamin Bailey 331
From aLetter to George and Thomas Keats 333
Thomas Love Peacock 334
The Four Ages of Poetry 336
Percy Bysshe Shelley 344
A Defence of Poetry 346
dialogue with percy bysshe shelley 364
Raymond Williams: The Romantic Artistfrom Culture and Society 364
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 369
Introduction to the Philosophy of Art 373
Ralph Waldo Emerson 384
The Poet 385
Karl Marx 397
The Alienation of LaborfromEconomic and Philosophic Manuscripts of1844 400
Consciousness Derived from Material Conditions from The GermanIdeology 406
On Greek Art in Its Time fromA Contribution to the Critique of PoliticalEconomy 410
Matthew Arnold 412
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time 415
From The Study of Poetry 429
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Friedrich Nietzsche 435
From The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music 439
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense 452
From Twilight of the Idols 459
Henry James 462
The Art of Fiction 464
Oscar Wilde 476
The Decay of Lying 478
Sigmund Freud 497
From The Interpretation of Dreams 500
Creative Writers and Daydreaming 509
The Uncanny 514
Medusas Head 533
T. S. Eliot 534
Tradition and the Individual Talent 537
Carl Gustav Jung 542
On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry 544
The Principal Archetypes 554
W. E. B. Du Bois 565
On Double Consciousness from The Souls of Black Folk 567
Criteria of Negro Art 569
Mikhail Bakhtin 575
FromDiscourse in the Novel Heteroglossia in the Novel 578From Problems in Dostoevskys Poetics 594
Virginia Woolf 596
Shakespeares SisterfromA Room of Ones Own 599
Austen Bront EliotfromA Room of Ones Own 602
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Zora Neale Hurston 611
What White Publishers Wont Print 613
Martin Heidegger 617
Hlderlin and the Essence of Poetry 620
Edmund Wilson 628
FromDickens: The Two Scrooges from The Wound and the Bow 630
Kenneth Burke 639
Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats 642Literature as Equipment for Living 651
F. R. Leavis 656
From The Great Tradition 658
Jean-Paul Sartre 665
Why Write? 668
Simone de Beauvoir 679
Myths: Of Women in Five Authors 682
J. L. Austin 685
Constatives and Performatives and Speech Acts: Locutionary, Illocutionary, PerlocutionaryfromHow to Do Things with Words 687
Northrop Frye 697
The Archetypes of Literature 699
Erich Auerbach 708
Odysseuss Scar 710
Hans-Georg Gadamer 724The Elevation of the Historicality of Understanding to the Status of Hermeneutical
Principle from Truth and Method 727
Susan Sontag 744
Against Interpretation 746
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Part Two
CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN LITERARYCRITICISM 753
1. Formalisms: Russian Formalism, New Criticism,Neo-Aristotelianism _________________________________________________ 755
I. A. Richards 769
The Two Uses of Language and Poetry and Beliefs from Principles of Literary
Criticism 770
Victor Shklovsky 780
Art as Technique 781
Vladimir Propp 791
Transformations of the Wondertale from The Morphology of the Folktale 791
Cleanth Brooks 803
FromMy Credo: Formalist Criticism 804
Irony as a Principle of Structure 805
dialogue with cleanth brooks 813
R. S. Crane: From The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks 813
W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley 816
The Intentional Fallacy 817
2. Structuralism and Deconstruction ________________________________ 825
Ferdinand de Saussure 847
Nature of the Linguistic Sign 848
Binary Oppositions 851
Roman Jacobson 858
FromLinguistics and Poetics 858
Claude Lvi-Strauss 865
The Structural Study of Myth 866
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Roland Barthes 874
From Work to Text 875
Striptease fromMythologies 879
The Structuralist Activity 881
The Death of the Author 885
Paul de Man 888
Semiology and Rhetoric 888
dialogue with paul de man 899
Lawrence Lipking: The Practice of Theory 899
Michel Foucault 910
What Is an Author? 910
Jacques Derrida 920
Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences 921
The Father of Logos from Platos Pharmacy 932
Diffrance 938
Umberto Eco 956
The Myth of Superman 956
3. Reader-Response Theory __________________________________________ 968
Hans Robert Jauss 987
Horizons for Reading 988
Wayne C. Booth 995
Control of Distance in Jane Austens Emma 995
Wolfgang Iser 1007
The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach 1008
Norman N. Holland 1020
The Question: Who Reads What How? 1021
Stanley Fish 1028
How to Recognize a Poem When You See One 1029
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dialogue with stanley fish 1037
James Phelan: FromData, Danda, and Disagreement 1037
Judith Fetterley 1041
Introduction to The Resisting Reader 1041
Peter Rabinowitz 1048
FromBefore Reading 1049
Elaine Scarry 1063
On Vivacity: The Difference Between Daydreaming and Imagining-Under-Authorial-Instruction fromRepresentations 1064
Mark Turner 1082
Poetry: Metaphor and the Conceptual Context of Invention 1083
Lisa Zunshine 1094
Theory of Mind and Experimental Representations of FictionalConsciousness 1094
4. Psychoanalytic Theory And Criticism _____________________________ 1112
Jacques Lacan 1128
The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in PsychoanalyticExperience 1129
The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud 1135
The Meaning of the Phallus 1155
Harold Bloom 1161
A Meditation upon Priority 1162
Peter Brooks 1167
Freuds Masterplot 1167
Laura Mulvey 1178
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema 1178
Slavoj Z izek 1186
Courtly Love, or, Woman as Thing 1187
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5. Marxist Criticism ________________________________________________ 1204
Georg Lukcs 1223
The Ideology of Modernism 1224
Walter Benjamin 1238
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 1239
Bertolt Brecht 1255
The Popular and the Realistic 1256
Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer 1260
From The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception fromDialectic ofEnlightenment 1261
Louis Althusser 1269
FromIdeology and Ideological State Apparatuses 1270
Raymond Williams 1278
FromMarxism and Literature 1278
Fredric Jameson 1296
From The Political Unconscious 1297
Terry Eagleton 1313
Categories for a Materialist Criticism 1314
6. New Historicism and Cultural Studies ____________________________ 1326
Michel de Certeau 1348
Walking in the City from The Practice of Everyday Life 1349
Michel Foucault 1363
Las Meninas from The Order of Things 1363
Clifford Geertz 1372
Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture 1373
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Hayden White 1389
The Historical Text as Literary Artifact 1390
Pierre Bourdieu 1404
The Market in Symbolic Goods 1404
Stuart Hall 1410
Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms 1410
Nancy Armstrong 1424
Some Call It Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity 1425
Lawrence Buell 1438
The Ecocritical Insurgency 1439
Stephen Greenblatt 1448
Introduction to The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance 1449
King Lear and Harsnetts Devil-Fiction 1451
dialogue with stephen greenblatt 1454
Frank Lentricchia: FromAriel and the Police 1454
Meaghau Morris 1458
Things to Do with Shopping Centres 1458
John Guillory 1477
From Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation 1478
Laura Kipnis 1490
(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler 1491
7. Feminist Criticism ________________________________________________ 1508
Nina Baym 1525
Melodramas of Beset Manhood 1526
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar 1537
FromInfection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship 1538
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dialogue with sandra m. gilbert and susan gubar 1551
Toril Moi: From Sexual/ Textual Politics 1551
Annette Kolodny 1556
Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politicsof a Feminist Literary Criticism 1556
Julia Kristeva 1569
Womans Time 1569
Jonathan Culler 1585Reading as a Woman 1585
dialogue between elaine showalter and terry eagleton 1597
Elaine Showalter: From Critical Crossdressing; Male Feminists and the Woman of theYear 1598
Terry Eagleton:A Response to Elaine Showalter 1604
Elaine Showalter:In Reply 1605
Barbara Smith 1606
Toward a Black Feminist Criticism 1606
8. Gender Studies and Queer Theory ________________________________ 1617
Michel Foucault 1633
From The History of Sexuality 1633
Monique Wittig 1643
One Is Not Born a Woman 1643
Hlne Cixous 1649
Laugh of the Medusa 1649
Guy Hocquenghem 1662
FromHomosexual Desire 1662
Gayle Rubin 1669
The Traffic in Women: Etc 1670
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 1689
FromBetween Men 1690
FromEpistemology of the Closet 1693
Steven Kruger 1697
Claiming the Pardoner: Toward a Gay Reading of Chaucers Pardoners Tale 1698
Judith Butler 1713
Imitation and Gender Insubordination 1713
dialogue with judith butler 1713
Martha Nussbaum: From The Professor of Parody 1725
Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner 1727
Sex in Public 1728
Judith Halberstam 1740
An Introduction to Female Masculinity 1741
9. Postcolonialism and Ethnic Studies _______________________________ 1759
Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari 1783
What is a Minor Literature? 1783
Chinua Achebe 1789
An Image of Africa 1789
Toni Morrison 1797
Black Matter(s) 1797
Edward W. Said 1807
From the Introduction to Orientalism 1807
Benedict Anderson 1820
The Origins of National Consciousness 1821
Ngugi wa Thiongo 1826
Europhonism, Universities, and the Magic Fountain: The Future of African Literature andScholarship 1827
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dialogue between fredric jameson and aijaz ahmad 1835
Fredric Jameson: From Third World Literature in the Era of Multi-NationalCapitalism 1836
Aijaz Ahmad: FromJamesons Rhetoric of Otherness and the National Allegory 1837
Fredric Jameson:A Brief Response 1840
Gayatri Spivak 1842
Three Womens Texts and a Critique of Imperialism 1843
Gloria Anzaldua 1856
La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness 1856
Barbara Christian 1864
The Race for Theory 1865
dialogue with barbara christian 1872
Michael Awkward: FromAppropriative Gestures: Theory and Afro-American LiteraryCriticism 1873
Deborah McDowell: FromRecycling: Race, Gender, and the Practice ofTheory 1876
Homi K. Bhabha 1881
Signs Taken for Wonders: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree OutsideDelhi, May 1817 1881
Henry Louis Gates Jr. 1896
Writing, Race, and the Difference It Makes 1897
dialogue with henry louis gates jr. and houston a baker jr. 1909
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: From Preface to Blackness: Test and Pretext 1910
Houston A. Baker Jr.: FromBlues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature 1912
Rey Chow 1915
The Interruption of Referentiality: Poststructuralism and the Conundrum of CriticalMulticulturalism 1916
10. Theorizing Postmodernism _______________________________________ 1927
Jean-Francois Lyotard 1940
Defining the Postmodern 1940
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Jean Baudrillard 1942
From The Precession of Simulacra 1943
Jrgen Habermas 1953
Modernity versus Postmodernity 1954
Fredric Jameson 1962
Postmodernism and Consumer Society 1963
Donna Haraway 1973
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late TwentiethCentury 1974
Linda Hutcheon 1998
Theorizing the Postmodern: Toward a Poetics 1999
Bell Hooks 2015
Postmodern Blackness 2016
Cornel West 2021
Postmodernism and Black America 2021
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