
Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide
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- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction: Border Crossings, or Close Encounters of the Textual Kind
- Part 1: STRUCTURALISM
- Introduction: Never Standing Still, or Is Roland Barthes Structuralism?
- 1.1 From Science to Literature
- 1.2 From S/Z
- Annotated Bibliography
- Supplementary Bibliography
- Part 2 FEMINISM
- Introduction: Will the Real Feminist Theory Please Stand Up?
- 2.1 Medusa's Voice: Male Hysteria in The Bostonians
- 2.2 Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Counterplot of Lesbian Fiction
- 2.3 Myself and M/others: Collette, Wilde, and Duchamp
- Annotated Bibliography
- Supplementary Bibliography
- Part 3 MARXIST LITERARY THEORIES
- Introduction: The Politics of Literature
- 3.1 From Towards A Revolutionary Criticism
- 3.2 Marxism and Literature
- Annoted Bibliography
- Supplementary Bibliography
- Part 4 READER-RESPONSE THEORIES
- Introduction: There Is No Such Thing as Reader-Response Theory
- 4.1 Describing Poetic Structures: Two Approaches to Baudelaire's 'Les Chats'
- 4.2 The Poetic Text Within the Change of Horizons of Reading: The Example of Baudelaire's 'Spleen II'
- 4.3 The Imaginary
- Annotated Bibliography
- Supplementary Bibliography
- Part 5: PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM
- Introduction: Screening the Other
- 5.1 Difference
- 5.2 Using Lacan: Reading To the Lighthouse
- Annotated Bibliography
- Supplementary Bibliography
- Part 6 DECONSTRUCTION
- Introduction: What Remains Unread
- 6.1 Letter to a Japanese Friend
- 6.2 Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derride and the 'Dislocation of Souls'
- 6.3 On Not Reading: Derrida and Beckett
- Annotated Bibliography
- Supplementary Bibliography
- Part 7 POSTSTRUCTURALISM
- Introduction: Criticism and Conceit
- 7.1 Semiology and Rhetoric
- 7.2 Scoring Literature
- Annotated Bibliography
- Supplementary Bibliography
- Part 8 POSTMODERNISM
- Introduction: Postmodernism? Not Representing Postmodernism
- 8.1 Answer to the Question, What Is the Postmodern?
- 8.2 Simulacra and Simulations
- 8.3 Nostalgia for the Present
- Annotated Bibliography
- Supplementary Bibliography
- Part 9: NEW HISTORICISM
- Introduction: History, Power and Politics in the Literary Artifact
- 9.1 Marxism and the New Historicism
- 9.2 'Shaping Fantasies': Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture
- Annotated Bibliography
- Supplementary Bibliography
- Part 10: POSTCOLONIAL THEORY
- Introduction: The Difficulty of Difference
- 10.1 Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse
- 10.2 Loafers and Story-Tellers
- 10.3 Film as Ethnography
- or, Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World
- Annotated Bibliography
- Supplementary Bibliography
- Part 11: GAY STUDIES/QUEER THEORY
- Introduction: Works on the Wild(e) Side - Performing, Transgressing, Queering
- 11.1 Queer and Now
- 11.2 Post/modern: On the Gay Sensibility, or the Pervert's Revenge on Authenticity - Wilde, Genet, Orton, and Others
- 11.3 Critically Queer
- Annotated Bibiliography
- Supplementary Bibliography
- Part 12: CULTURAL STUDIES
- Introduction: Theorising Culture, Reading Ourselves
- 12.1 Cultural Studies and Reading
- 12.2 Cities without Maps
- 12.3 Art as Cultural Production
- Annotated Bibliography
- Supplementary Bibliography
- Works Cited
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Index of Proper Names
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