From Part One of the Richter anthology:
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| Plato |
Republic, Book X |
| Aristotle |
Poetics |
| Horace |
The Art of Poetry |
| Longinus |
On the Sublime |
| Sir Philip Sidney |
An Apology for Poetry |
| Aphra Behn |
Preface to The Lucky Chance |
| Alexander Pope |
An Essay on Criticism |
| Samuel Johnson |
from "Preface to Shakespeare" |
| David Hume |
Of the Standard of Taste |
| Immanuel Kant |
from Critique of Judgement |
| William Wordsworth |
Preface to Lyrical Ballads |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
from Biographia Literaria |
| John Keats |
from Letter to George and Thomas Keats |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
A Defence of Poetry |
| G. W. F. Hegel |
Introduction to the Philosophy of Art |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The Poet |
| Matthew Arnold |
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
from The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music and Part I, On the Genealogy of Morals (*) |
| Henry James |
The Art of Fiction |
| T.S. Eliot |
Tradition and the Individual Talent |
| W.E.B. Du Bois |
from The Souls of Black Folk |
| Mikhail Bakhtin |
from Discourse in the Novel (“Heteroglossia”) |
| Virginia Woolf |
Shakespeare's Sister from A Room of One's Own
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| Martin Heidegger |
The Question Concerning Technology (*) |
| Kenneth Burke |
Literature as Equipment for Living |
| J.L. Austin |
from How to Do Things with Words |
| Simone de Beauvoir |
Myths: Of Women in Five Authors |
| Northrop Frye |
The Archetypes of Literature |
| Erich Auerbach |
Odysseus' Scar |
From Part Two of the Richter Anthology:
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| 1. Formalisms |
| Victor Shklovsky |
Art as Technique |
| W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley |
The Intentional Fallacy |
| Cleanth Brooks |
Irony as a Principle of Structure |
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| 2. Structuralism, Semiotics, and Deconstruction
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| Ferdinand de Saussure |
Nature of the Linguistic Sign |
| Claude Lévi-Strauss |
The Structural Study of Myth |
| Roland Barthes |
The Death of the Author |
| Michel Foucault |
What is an Author? |
| Jacques Derrida |
Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences |
| Paul de Man |
from Blindness and Insight (chapter 1) and “The Resistance to
Theory” (*) |
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| 3. Reader-Response Criticism |
| Wolfgang Iser |
The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach |
| Hans Robert Jauss |
The Three Stages of Interpretation |
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| 4. Psychoanalytic Theory |
| Sigmund Freud |
“The Uncanny” (*) and “Mourning and Melancholia” (*) |
| Jacques Lacan |
“The Mirror Stage and “The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud” |
| Harold Bloom |
“A Meditation upon Priority” |
| Laura Mulvey |
“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” |
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| 5. Marxist Criticism |
| Walter Benjamin |
“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” |
| Louis Althusser |
from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses |
| Raymond Williams |
from Marxism and Literature |
| Fredric Jameson |
from The Political Unconscious |
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| 6. New Historicism and Cultural Studies |
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| Clifford Geertz |
"Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" (*) |
| Pierre Bourdieu |
from Distinction |
| Stephen Greenblatt |
“Invisible Bullets” (*)
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| John Guillory |
from Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation |
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| 7.& 8. Feminist Literary Criticism /
Gender Studies and Queer Theory |
| Julia Kristeva |
“Women's Time” |
| Hélène Cixous |
"The Laugh of the Medusa" |
| Luce Irigaray |
“This Sex Which Is Not One” (*) |
| Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick |
from Epistemology of the Closet |
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| 9. Postcolonialism and Ethnic Studies |
| Edward W. Said |
from the Introduction to Orientalism |
| Gayatri Spivak |
“Can the Subaltern Speak?” (*) |
| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
"Writing, 'Race,' and the Difference It Makes" |
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| 10. Theorizing Postmodernism |
| Jean Baudrillard |
from The Precession of Simulacra |
| Jürgen Habermas |
“Modernity versus Postmodernity” |
| Fredric Jameson |
“Postmodernism and Consumer Society” |
| Donna Haraway |
“A Cyborg Manifesto” |
Separate books :
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| Karl Marx |
Capital (Part I of Vol. I) |
| Sigmund Freud |
Interpretation of Dreams
(Chapters II-IV, VI, VII) |
| Jacques Derrida |
Of Grammatology (pp. 1-165) and The Gift of Death (Chapter 3) |
| Roland Barthes |
S/ Z (pp. 3-33, 221-54) |
| Michel Foucault |
The History of Sexuality, Vol. I |
| Jean-François Lyotard |
The Postmodern Condition (concluding essay: “Answering the
Question: What is Postmodernism?”) |
Gilles Deleuze and
Felix Guattari
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A Thousand Plateaus (chapters 1-2, 14) |
| Judith Butler |
Gender Trouble and Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and
Violence (Chapters 1-2) |
| Giorgio Agamben |
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Introduction, Part 3) |
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Reading List 8
