Literary Theory

Preface. Acknowledgments. Copyright Acknowledgments. Part I: Formalisms: 1. Introduction: "Formalisms": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 2. "Introduction to the Formal Method": Boris Eichenbaum. 3. "Art as Technique": Viktor Shklovsky. 4. "Thematics": Boris Tomashevsky. 5. Morphology of the Folktale: V. Propp. 6. "Discourse in the Novel": Mikhail Bakhtin. 7. Rabelais and His World: Mikhail Bakhtin. 8. "The Formalist Critics": Cleanth Brooks. 9. "The Language Paradox": Cleanth Brooks. Appendix: "The Canonization": John Donne. Part II: Structuralism and Linguistics: 10. Introduction: "The Linguistic Foundation": Jonathan Culler. 11. Course in General Linguistics: Ferdinand de Saussure. 12. "Two Aspects of Language": Roman Jakobson. 13. How to Do Things with Words: J. L. Austin. 14. "The Structural Study of Myth": Claude Levi-Strauss. Part III: Psychoanalysis: 15. Introduction: "Strangers to Ourselves: Psychoanalysis": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 16. The Interpretation of Dreams: Sigmund Freud. 17. "On Narcissim": Sigmund Freud. 18. "The Uncanny": Sigmund Freud. 19. Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Sigmund Freud. 20. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego: Sigmund Freud. 21. "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience": Jacques Lacan. 22. "The Symbolic Order" (From "The Function and Field of Speech and Language of Psychoanalysis"): Jacques Lacan. 23. "The Instance the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud": Jacques Lacan. 24. The Anti-Oedipus: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. 25. "The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant": Margaret Mahler. 26. "Two Primary Configurations of Psychopathology": Sydney J. Blatt and Shula Schichman. 27. "Triangular Desire": Rene Girard. Part IV: Marxism: 28. Introduction: "Starting with Zero: Basic Marxism": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 29. "Dialectics" (From The Science of Logic): G. W. F. Hegel. 30. Grundrisse: Karl Marx. 31. The German Ideology: Karl Marx. 32. The Manifesto of the Communist Party: Karl Marx. 33. "Wage Labor and Capital": Karl Marx. 34. Capital: Karl Marx. 35. "Hegemony" (From "The Formation of the Intellectuals"): Antonio Gramsci. 36. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language: V. N. Volosinov. 37. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction": Walter Benjamin. 38. The Historical Novel: Georg Lukacs. 39. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses": Louis Altusser. 40. "Culture, Ideology, Interpellation": John Fiske. 41. The Sublime Object of Ideology: Slovoj Zizek. 42. "White Guys Happiest, Study Finds": Ronald Kotulak. 43. "Nike Told of Worker Abuses in Vietnam Factories": Verena Dobnik. Part V: Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-Modernism: 44. Introduction: "The Class of 1968 - Post-Structuralism par lui-meme": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 45. "On Truth and Lying in and Extra-Moral Sense": Fridrich Nietzsche. 46. The Will to Power: Fridrich Nietzsche. 47. Being and Time: Martin Heidegger. 48. Identity and Difference: Martin Heidegger. 49. "Heterology": George Bataille. 50. The Order of Things: Michel Foucault. 51. "Difference": Jacques Derrida. 52. The System of Objects: Jean Baudrillard. 53. The Archaeology of Knowledge: Michel Foucault. 54. "Plato's Pharmacy": Jacques Derrida. 55. Revolution in Poetic Language: Julia Kristeva. 56. Discipline and Punish: Michel Foucalt. 57. Symbolic Exchange and Death: Jean Baudrillard. 58. The Postmodern Condition: Jean Francois. 59. A Thousand Plateaus: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Part VI: Feminism: 60. Introduction: "Feminist Paradigms": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 61. "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex": Gayle Rubin. 62. "On the Politics of Literature": Judith Fetterley. 63. "The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine": Luce Irigary. 64. "Commodities amongst Themselves": Luce Irigary. 65. "Sorties": Helene Cixous. 66. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema": Laura Mulvey. 67. The Madwoman in the Attic: Sandra Gilbert. 68. "The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours": Patricia Klindienst. 69. "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference": Audre Lorde. 70. "Notes Toward a Politics of Location": Adrienne Rich. 71. "Representation, Reproduction, and Women's Place in Language": Margaret Homans. 72. "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar book": Hortense Spillers. Part VII: Gender Studies, Gay/Lesbian Studies, Queer Theory: 73. Introduction: "Contingencies of Gender": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 74. "Sexual Transformations" (From "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality"): Gayle Rubin. 75. The History of Sexuality: Michel Foucalt. 76. Introduction to Guy Hocquengham's Homosexual Desire: Jeffrey Weeks. 77. Between Men: Eve Kosofsky. 78. "The Technology of Gender": Teresa de Lauretis. 79. "Imitation and Gender Insubordination": Judith Butler. 80. "Homographesis": Lee Edelman. 81. "A Small Boy and Others: Sexual Disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth Anger, and David Lynch": Michael Moon. 82. "F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity": Judith Halberstam. 83. "Heterosexuality as a Compromise Formation": Nancy Chodorow. Part VIII: Historicisms: 84. Introduction: "Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture": Louis Montrose. 85. "Invisible Bullets": Stephen Greenblatt. 86. "Cultural Materialism, Othelo, and the Politics of Plausibility": Alan Sinfield. 87. "Melville, Delany, and New World Slavery": Eric Sundquist. Part IX: Ethnic Studies, Post-Coloniality, International Studies: 88. Introduction: "English Without Shadows, Literature on a World Scale": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 89. The Rule of Darkness: Patrick Brantlinger. 90. "The Souls of Black Folk": W. E. B. DuBois. 91. Orientalism: Edward Said. 92. Borderlands / La Frontera: Gloria Anzaldua. 93. "The Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the Signifying Monkey": Henry Louis Gates. 94. "Playing in the Dark": Toni Morrison. 95. The Location of Culture: Homi Bhabha. 96. "Topologies of Nativism": Anthony Appiah. 97. "Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: An Exercise in Popular Readings": Rey Chow. 98. The Black Atlantic: Paul Gilroy. 99. The Repeating Island: Antonio Beniez-Rojo. 100. "Migratory Subjectives": Carole Boyce Davies. 101. A Small Place: Jamaica Kincaid. Part X: Cultural Studies: 102. Introduction: "The Politics of Culture": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 103. Distinction: Pierre Bourdieu. 104. "The Culture Industry as Mass Deception": Max Horkheimer and Theodore Adorno. 105. Reading the Romance: Janice Radway. 106. "The Rediscovery of 'Ideology'": Stuart Hall. 107. Subculture: The Meaning of Style: Dick Hebdige. 108. "Punk and History": Malcolm McLaren. 109. All-Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture: Stuart Ewen. 110. Television Culture: John Fiske. 111. "'Material Girl': The Effacements of Postmodern Culture": Susan Bordo. Index.