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Modern Literary Theory a READER Fourth Edition Modern Literary Theory A READER Fourth Edition SUB GSttingen 7 213 539 756 2001 A 8842 Edited by Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh A member of the Hodder Headline Group LONDON Co-published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press Inc., New York Acknowledgements ix Preface xiii General Introduction 1 PART ONE Origins and Foundations 9 Section One: Seminal Texts 11 1 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, From The German Ideology ([1846] 1966) 18 2 Sigmund Freud, From Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1916) ' 24 3 Ferdinand de Saussure, From Course in General Linguistics (1915) 34 4 Simone de Beauvoir, From The Second Sex ([1953] 1972) 41 Section Two: Formalism and Structuralism 43 5 Viktor.Shklovsky, From 'Art as Technique' (1917) 49 6 Cleanth Brooks, 'The Language of Paradox' (1947) 52 7 Gerard Genette, From Narrative Discourse (1980) 65 8 Roland Barthes, 'To Write: An Intransitive Verb?' (1966) 76 9 David Lodge, 'Analysis and Interpretation of the Realist Text' (1980) 85 Section Three: Marxism 103 10 Georg Lukacs, From The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (1972) * 108 11 Theodor Adorno, From 'On Lyric Poetry and Society' (1991) 114 12 Raymond Williams, From Marxism and Literature (1977) 122 13 Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, From 'Literature as an Ideological Form' (1978) 134 vi I Contents Section Four: Feminism 143 14 Elaine Showalter, 'Towards a Feminist Poetics' (1979) 146 15 Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, From The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) 155 16 Annette Kolodny, From 'Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism' (1980) 163 17 The Marxist-Feminist Collective, From 'Women Writing: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Aurora Leigh' (1978) 169 PART TWO After Deconstruction 175 Section One: Seminal Texts 177 18 Roland Barthes, 'The Death of the Author' (1968) 185 19 Jacques Lacan, 'The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience' (1949) * 189 20 Jacques Derrida, 'Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences' (1966) 195 21 Michel Foucault, From 'The Order of Discourse' (1971) 210 22 Julia Kristeva, From 'Women's Time' (1981) 222 Section Two: Subjectivity and Gender 226 23 Helene Cixous, 'Sorties' (1975) 229 24 Luce Irigaray, 'Sexual Difference' (1977) 236 25 Jonathan Dollimore, From Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault (1991) 239 26 Judith Butler, From Bodies That Matter (1993) 247 Section Three: Histories and Textuality 252 27 M.M. Bakhtin, From 'Discourse in the Novel' (1934) 256 28 Hayden White, From 'The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality' (1987) 265 29 Paul de Man, 'The Resistance to Theory' (1982) 272 30 Jerome J. McGann, 'The Text, the Poem, and the Problem of Historical Method' (1985) 289 31 Stephen Greenblatt, 'Resonance and Wonder' (1990) 305 Section Four: Postmodernism 325 32 Jean-Frangois Lyotard, 'Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?' (1986) 329 33 Jean Baudrillard, From Simulations (1983) 338 34 Terry Eagleton, From The Illusions of Postmodernism (1997) 341 Contents I vii 35 Patricia Waugh, 'Postmodernism and Feminism' (1998) 344 Section Five: Postcolonialism 360 36 bell hooks, 'Postmodern Blackness' (1991) 362 37 Edward Said, From Culture and Imperialism (1993) 369 38 Homi Bhabha, 'Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse' (1983) 380 39 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, From The Post-Colonial Critic (1990) 387 PART THREE Critical Debates and Issues 395 Section One: Canonicity and Value 397 40 Terry Eagleton, From Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983) 400 41 Harold Bloom, From The Western Canon (1995) 405 Section Two: Criticism and Ethics 410 42 Martha Nussbaum, From Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (1990) 414 43 Emmanuel Levinas, From Totality and Infinity (1969) 422 Section Three: Criticism and the Institution 430 44 Stanley Fish, From Political Correctness (1995) 434 45 Edward Said, From 'Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies and Community' (1985) 439 Section Four: Criticism and Knowledge 448 46 Richard Rorty, 'Texts and Lumps' (1991) 451 47 Donna Haraway, 'A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s' (1990) 465 Select Bibliography 484 Index 491.
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