The critical tradition : classic texts and contemporary trends

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Textbook Cover......Page 1
Preface\r......Page 6
Contents......Page 18
Introduction\r......Page 32
Part One - Classic Texts In Literary Criticism\r......Page 54
Plato\r......Page 56
Republic, Book X\r......Page 61
Ion\r......Page 69
From Phaedrus\r......Page 77
Leo Tolstoy......Page 81
From What Is Art?\r......Page 83
Aristotle\r......Page 86
From Poetics\r......Page 90
Horace\r......Page 113
The Art of Poetry\r......Page 115
Longinus\r......Page 126
From On the Sublime\r......Page 128
Plotinus\r......Page 140
On the Intellectual Beauty\r......Page 142
Dante Alighieri\r......Page 151
From Letter to Can Grande della Scala\r......Page 152
Christine de Pisan\r......Page 155
From La Querelle de la Rose\r......Page 157
Sir Philip Sidney\r......Page 163
An Apology for Poetry\r......Page 166
John Dryden......Page 191
From An Essay of Dramatic Poetry\r......Page 194
Aphra Behn......Page 220
An Epistle to the Reader from The Dutch Lover\r......Page 223
Preface to The Lucky Chance\r......Page 226
Alexander Pope\r......Page 229
An Essay On Criticism\r......Page 230
Samuel Johnson\r......Page 241
Of the Standard of Taste\r......Page 265
The Rambler, No.4\r......Page 243
Rasselas, Chapter 10\r......Page 246
From Preface to Shakespeare\r......Page 247
David Hume\r......Page 262
From Contingencies of Value\r......Page 276
Immanuel Kant\r......Page 278
From Critique of Judgment\r......Page 282
Mary Wollstonecraft\r......Page 306
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman\r......Page 308
Germaine de Stael\r......Page 316
From Essay on Fictions......Page 318
On Women Writers......Page 324
Friedrich von Schiller......Page 329
From On Naive and Sentimental Poetry\r......Page 331
William Wordsworth......Page 335
Preface to Lyrical Ballads......Page 337
Samuel Taylor Coleridge......Page 350
Shakespeare\'s Judgment Equal to His Genius......Page 354
From Biographica Literaria......Page 356
John Keats\r......Page 361
From a Letter to Benjamin Bailey......Page 362
From a Letter to George and Thomas Keats......Page 364
Thomas Love Peacock......Page 365
The Four Ages of Poetry......Page 366
Percy Bysshe Shelley......Page 375
A Defence of Poetry......Page 377
The Romantic Artist from Culture and Society 1780-1950......Page 395
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel......Page 400
Introduction to the Philosophy of Art......Page 404
Ralph Waldo Emerson......Page 415
The Poet......Page 416
Karl Marx......Page 428
The Alienation of Labor from Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844......Page 431
Consciousness Derived from Material Conditions from The German Ideology......Page 437
On Greek Art in Its Time from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy......Page 441
Matthew Arnold......Page 443
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time......Page 446
From The Study of Poetry......Page 460
Friedrich Nietzsche......Page 466
From The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music......Page 470
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense......Page 483
From Twilight of the Idols......Page 490
Henry James\r......Page 493
The Art of Fiction\r......Page 495
Oscar Wilde......Page 507
The Decay of Lying......Page 509
Sigmund Freud......Page 528
The Dream-Work from The Interpretation of Dreams......Page 531
[Creative Writers and Daydreaming]......Page 540
The \"Uncanny\"......Page 545
Medusa\'s Head......Page 564
T. S. Eliot......Page 565
Tradition and the Individual Talent......Page 568
Carl Gustav Jung......Page 573
On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry......Page 575
The Principal Archetypes......Page 585
W. E. B. Du Bois......Page 596
[On Double Consciousness] from The Souls of Black Folk......Page 598
Criteria of Negro Art......Page 600
Mikhail Bakhtin......Page 606
The Topic of the Speaking Person from Discourse in the Novel......Page 609
Heteroglossia in the Novel from Discourse in the Novel......Page 619
From Problems in Dostoevsky\'s Poetics......Page 625
Virginia Woolf......Page 627
[Shakespeare\'s Sister] from A Room of One\'s Own......Page 630
[Austen-Bronte-Eliot] from A Room of One\'s Own......Page 633
[The Androgynous Vision] from A Room of One\'s Own......Page 638
Martin Heidegger......Page 642
Holderlin and the Essence of Poetry......Page 645
Edmund Wilson......Page 653
From Dickens: The Two Scooges......Page 655
Kenneth Burke......Page 664
Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats......Page 667
Literature as Equipment from Living......Page 676
F. R. Leavis......Page 681
From The Great Tradition......Page 683
Jean-Paul Sartre......Page 690
Why Write?......Page 693
Simone de Beauvoir......Page 704
Myths: Of Women in Five Authors......Page 707
J. L. Austin......Page 710
[Constatives and Performatives] from How to Do Things with Words......Page 712
[Speech Acts: Locutionary, Illocutionary, Perlocutionary] from How to Do Things with Words......Page 716
Northrop Frye......Page 722
The Archetypes of Literature......Page 724
Erich Auerbach......Page 733
Odysseus\' Scar......Page 735
Hans-Georg Gadamer......Page 749
The Elevation of the Historicality of Understanding to the Status of Hermeneutical Principle......Page 752
Susan Sontag......Page 769
Against Interpretation......Page 771
Part Two - Contemporary Trends In Literary Criticism......Page 778
1 Formalisms: Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Neo-Aristotelianism......Page 780
I. A. Richards......Page 794
From Principles of Literary Criticism......Page 795
Victor Scklovsky......Page 805
Art as Technique......Page 806
[Fairy Tale Transformations]......Page 816
Cleanth Brooks......Page 828
From My Credo: Formalist Criticism......Page 829
Irony as a Principle of Structure......Page 830
From The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks......Page 838
W. K. Wimsatt - Monroe C. Beardsley......Page 841
The Intentional Fallacy......Page 842
2 Structuralism And Deconstruction......Page 850
Ferdinand de Saussure......Page 872
Nature of the Linguistic Sign......Page 873
[Binary Oppositions]......Page 876
From Linguistics and Poetics......Page 883
Claude Levi-Strauss......Page 890
The Structual Study of Myth......Page 891
Roland Barthes......Page 899
Striptease......Page 900
The Structuralist Activity......Page 902
The Death of the Author......Page 905
From Work to Text......Page 909
Semiology and Rhetoric......Page 913
Lawrence Lipking......Page 924
The Practice of Theory......Page 925
What Is an Author?......Page 935
Jaques Derrida\r......Page 945
Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences......Page 946
The Father of Logos from Plato\'s Pharmacy......Page 957
Differance......Page 963
The Myth of Superman......Page 981
3 Reader-Response Theory......Page 993
Hans Robert Jauss......Page 1012
[The Three Horizons of Reading] from Toward an Aesthetics of Reception......Page 1013
Control of Distance in Jane Austen\'s Emma......Page 1020
Wolfgang Iser......Page 1032
The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach......Page 1033
Norman N. Holland......Page 1045
The Question: Who Reads What How?......Page 1046
Stanley Fish......Page 1053
How to Recognize a Poem When You See One......Page 1054
From Data, Danda, and Disagreement......Page 1062
Introduction to The Resisting Reader......Page 1066
Peter Rabinowitz......Page 1073
From Before Reading......Page 1074
Elaine Scarry......Page 1088
On Vivacity: The Difference between Daydreaming and Imagining-Under-Authorial-Instruction......Page 1089
Mark Turner......Page 1107
Poetry: Metaphor and the Conceptual Context of Invention......Page 1108
Theory of Mind and Experimental Representations of Fictional Consciousness......Page 1120
4 Psychoanalytic Theory And Criticism......Page 1137
Freud\'s Masterplot......Page 1192
Jacques Lacan\r......Page 1153
The Mirror Stage as Formative of the\rFunction of the I as Revealed in\rPsychoanalytic Experience......Page 1154
The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud......Page 1160
The Meaning afthe Phallus......Page 1180
Harold Bloom......Page 1186
A Meditation upon Priority......Page 1187
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema......Page 1203
Slavoj Zizek......Page 1211
Courtly Love, or, Woman as Thing......Page 1212
5 Marxist Criticism......Page 1229
Georg Lukacs......Page 1248
The Ideology of Modernism......Page 1249
Walter Benjamin......Page 1263
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction......Page 1264
Bertolt Brecht......Page 1280
The Popular and the Realistic......Page 1281
Max Horkheimer......Page 1285
From The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception......Page 1286
Louis Althusser......Page 1294
From Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses......Page 1295
From Marxism and Literature......Page 1303
Fredric Jameson......Page 1321
From The Political Unconscious......Page 1322
Terry Eagleton......Page 1338
Categories for a Materialist Criticism......Page 1339
6 New Historicism And Cultural Studies......Page 1351
Michel de Certeau......Page 1373
Walking In the City......Page 1374
Las Meninas......Page 1388
Clifford Geertz......Page 1397
Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture......Page 1398
Hayden White......Page 1414
The Historical Text as Literary Artifact......Page 1415
From Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste......Page 1429
Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms......Page 1435
Nancy Armstrong......Page 1449
Some Call It Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity......Page 1450
Lawrence Buell......Page 1463
The Ecocritical Insurgency......Page 1464
Stephen Greenblatt......Page 1473
Introduction to The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance......Page 1474
King Lear and Harsnett\'s \"Devil-Fiction\"......Page 1476
From Ariel and the Police......Page 1479
Things to Do with Shopping Centres......Page 1483
John Guillory......Page 1502
From Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation......Page 1503
Laura Kipnis......Page 1515
(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler......Page 1516
7 Feminist Literary Criticism......Page 1533
Nina Baym......Page 1550
Melodramas of Beset Manhood......Page 1551
Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar......Page 1562
From Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship......Page 1563
From Sexual/Textual Politics......Page 1576
Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism......Page 1581
Women\'s Time......Page 1594
Reading as a Woman......Page 1610
Dialogue Between Elaine Showalter And Terry Eagleton......Page 1622
From Critical Cross-Dressing: Male Felninists and the Woman of the Year......Page 1623
A Response to Elaine Showalter......Page 1628
In Reply......Page 1630
Toward a Black Feminist Criticism......Page 1631
8 Gender Studies And Queer Theory......Page 1642
From The History of Sexuality......Page 1658
One Is Not Born a Woman......Page 1668
The Laugh of the Medusa......Page 1674
From Homosexual Desire......Page 1687
Gayle Rubin......Page 1694
From The Traffic in Women: Notes on the \"Political Economy\" of Sex......Page 1695
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick......Page 1714
From Between Men......Page 1715
From Epistemology of the Closet......Page 1718
Steven Kruger......Page 1722
Claiming the Pardoner: Toward a Gay Reading of Chaucer\'s Pardoner\'s Tale......Page 1723
Imitation and Gender Insubordination......Page 1738
From The Professor of Parody......Page 1750
Lauren Berlant & Michael Warner......Page 1752
Sex in Public......Page 1753
Judith Halberstam......Page 1765
From the Introduction to Female Masculinity......Page 1766
9 Postcolonialism And Ethnic Studies\r......Page 1784
What Is a Minor Literature?......Page 1808
An Image of Africa......Page 1814
From Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination......Page 1822
From the Introduction to Orientalism......Page 1832
Benedict Anderson......Page 1845
The Origins of National Consciousness......Page 1846
Ngugi wa Thiong\'o......Page 1851
Europhonism, Universities, and the Magic Fountain: The Future of African Literature and Scholarship......Page 1852
Dialogue Between Fredric Jameson And Aijaz Ahmad......Page 1860
From Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism......Page 1861
From Jameson\'s Rhetoric of Otherness and the \"National Allegory\"......Page 1862
A Brief Response......Page 1865
Gayatri Spivak......Page 1867
Three Women\'s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism......Page 1868
La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness......Page 1881
Barbara Christian......Page 1889
The Race for Theory......Page 1890
Michael Awkward & Deborah E. McDowell......Page 1897
From Appropriative Gestures: Theor yand Afro-American Literary Criticism......Page 1898
From Recycling: Race, Gender, and the Practice of Theory......Page 1901
Signs Taken for Wonders: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 18I7......Page 1906
Henry Louis Gates Jr.......Page 1921
Writing, \"Race,\" and the Difference It Makes......Page 1922
Dialogue Between Henry Louis Gates Jr. And Houston A. Baker Jr.......Page 1934
From Preface to Blackness: Text and Pretext......Page 1935
From Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature......Page 1937
ReyChow......Page 1940
The Interruption of Referentiality: Poststructuralism and the Conundrum of Critical Multiculturalism......Page 1941
10 Theorizing Postmodernism......Page 1951
Defining the Postmodern......Page 1964
Jean Baudrillard......Page 1966
From The Precession of Simulacra......Page 1967
Jurgen Habermas......Page 1977
Modernity versus Postmodernity......Page 1978
Fredric Jameson......Page 1986
Postmodernism and Consumer Society......Page 1987
Donna Haraway......Page 1997
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century......Page 1998
Linda Hutcheon......Page 2022
Theorizing the Postmodern: Toward a Poetics......Page 2023
bell hooks......Page 2039
Postmodern Blackness......Page 2040
Postmodernism and Black America......Page 2045
Alternative Contents......Page 2050
Index......Page 2066