New Criticism
Cleanth Brooks: "The Language of Paradox"
Cleanth Brooks: "The Formalist Critics"
W. K. Wimsatt: "The Concrete Universal"
Structuralism
Ferdinand de Saussure: Course in General Linguistics
Victor Shklovsky: "Art as Technique"
V. Propp:
Morphology of the Folktale
Roman Jakobson: "The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles"
Roman Jakobson: "Linguistics and Poetics"
Claude Levi-Straus: "The Structural Study of Myth"
Roland Barthes: "The Death of the Author"
Deconstruction
Friedreich Nietzsche: "On Truth and
Lying in a Non-Moral Sense"
Jacques Derrida: "The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing"
Roland Barthes: "From Work to Text"
J. Hillis Miller: "Stevens' Rock and Criticism as Cure, II"
Paul de Man: "Semiology and Rhetoric"
Diana Fuss: "Essentialism in the
Classroom"
bell hooks: "Essentialism and Experience"
N. Katherine Hayles: "Speech, Writing, Code: Three Worldviews"
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud: "Psycho-analysis"
Jacques Lacan: "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'"
Slavoj Zizek: "Why Does a Letter Always Arrive at Its
Destination?: Imaginary, Symbolic, Real"
Feminism
Laura Mulvey: "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
Helene Cixous: "The Laugh of the Medusa"
Luce Irigaray: "This Sex Which Is Not One"
Toril Moi: "'Images of Women' Criticism"
bell hooks: "The Oppositional Gaze: Black
Female Spectators"
Queer Studies
Adrienne Rich: "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence"
Monique Wittig: "The Straight Mind"
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: "Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles"
Judith Butler: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of
Identity
Martha C. Nussbaum: "The Professor of Parody: The Hip Defeatism of Judith Butler"
Robert McRuer: "Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence"
Judith Halberstam: "Queer Temporalities and Postmodern Geographies"
Marxism
Karl Marx: from the preface to A
Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Karl Marx: "The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof
Karl Marx: "The Working-Day"
Walter Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproduction"
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno: from "The Culture
Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception"
Bertolt Brecht: "Short Description of a New Technique of Acting Which Produces an Alienation Effect"
Louis Althusser: "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)"
Raymond Williams: "Dominant, Residual, and
Emergent"
Fredric Jameson: "Cognitive Mapping"
New Historicism and Cultural Studies
Hayden White: "The Historical Text as Literary Artifact"
Michael Foucault: "Panopticism"
Dick Hebdige: Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Angela McRobbie: from "Jackie Magazine: Romantic
Individualism and the Teenage Girl"
Stuart Hall: "Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation"
Stephen Greenblatt: "The Circulation of Social Energy"
Jonathan Dollimore: "The Politics of Containment"
Tricia Rose: The Contradictory Politics of Popular Culture: Resisting, Selling
Out, and "Hot Sex"
Lawrence Buell: "The Emergence of Environmental Criticism"
Richard Strier: "How Formalism Became a Dirty Word, and Why We Can't Do without It"
Susan J. Wolfson: "Reading for Form"
Postcolonial Studies and Race Studies
Frantz Fanon: "On National
Culture"
Ngugi wa Thiong'o: "The Language of African Literature"
Homi K. Bhabha: "On Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse"
Gayatri C. Spivak: "Can the Subaltern Speak?: Speculations on Widow Sacrifice"
Chandra Talpade Mohanty: "Under Western Eyes: Feminist
Scholarship and Colonial Discourses"
Edward Said: "Narrative and Social Space"
Gloria Anzaldua: Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: "Talking Black: Critical Signs of the Times"
Renato Rosaldo: "Imperialist Nostalgia"
Ann duCille: "Discourse and Dat
Course: Postcoloniality and Afrocentricity"
Susan Koshy: "The Fictions of Asian American Literature"
Rey Chow: "The Interruption of Referentiality: Poststructuralism and the Conundrum of Critical Multiculturalism"
Reader Response
Stuart Hall: "Encoding/Decoding"
Barbara
Hernstein Smith: "Value/Evaluation" (1990, 1995)
Stanley Fish: "Introduction: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Interpretation," from Is There a Text in This Class?
H-Dirksen L. Bauman: "Towards a Poetics of Vision, Space, and the Body: Sign Language and Literary Theory"
Lisa
Zunshine: "Theory of Mind and Experimental Representations of Fictional Consciousness"
Glossary
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Robert Dale Parker is James M. Benson Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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