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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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