Twentieth-Century Literary Theory: A Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Victor Shklovsky: ‘Art as Technique’....Pages 3-5
Roman Jakobson: ‘The Dominant’....Pages 6-10
P. N. Medvedev/M. M. Bakhtin: ‘The Object, Tasks, and Methods of Literary History’....Pages 10-14
Jan Mukařovský: ‘Aesthetic Function, Norm, and Value as Social Facts’....Pages 15-18
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I. A. Richards: ‘Poetry and Beliefs’....Pages 22-26
Cleanth Brooks: ‘The Formalist Critic’....Pages 26-30
Kenneth Burke: ‘Formalist Criticism: Its Principles and Limits’....Pages 30-34
John M. Ellis: ‘The Relevant Context of A Literary Text’....Pages 34-37
F. R. Leavis: ‘Literary Criticism and Philosophy’....Pages 37-40
John Casey: ‘Object, Feeling and Judgement: F. R. Leavis’....Pages 41-44
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Hans-Georg Gadamer: ‘Language as Determination of The Hermeneutic Object’....Pages 47-51
E. D. Hirsch, Jr: ‘Three Dimensions of Hermeneutics’....Pages 51-56
P. D. Juhl: ‘The Appeal to the Text: What Are We Appealing to?’....Pages 57-60
Paul Ricoeur: ‘The Conflict of Interpretations’....Pages 60-63
William V. Spanos: ‘Breaking the Circle: Hermeneutics as Dis-Closure’....Pages 64-69
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Roman Jakobson: ‘Linguistics and Poetics’....Pages 71-77
Roger Fowler: ‘Literature as Discourse’....Pages 77-82
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Tzvetan Todorov: ‘Definition of Poetics’....Pages 86-89
Gérard Genette: ‘Structuralism and Literary Criticism’....Pages 89-93
Roland Barthes: ‘Science Versus Literature’....Pages 94-98
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Jonathan Culler: ‘Semiotics as a Theory of Reading’....Pages 98-102
Yury M. Lotman: ‘The Content and Structure of the Concept of “Literature”’....Pages 102-105
Morse Peckham: ‘The Problem of Interpretation’....Pages 106-111
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Jacques Derrida: ‘Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’....Pages 115-120
Roland Barthes: ‘The Death of the Author’....Pages 120-123
Julia Kristeva: ‘The System and the Speaking Subject’....Pages 124-129
Michel Foucault: ‘Lecture: 7 January 1976’....Pages 129-135
Paul De Man: ‘The Resistance to Theory’....Pages 135-141
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Norman N. Holland: ‘Reading and Identity: A Psychoanalytic Revolution’....Pages 143-148
Harold Bloom: ‘Poetry, Revisionism, and Repression’....Pages 148-152
Shoshana Felman: ‘The Madness of Interpretation: Literature and Psychoanalysis’....Pages 153-157
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Christopher Caudwell: ‘English Poets: The Decline of Capitalism’....Pages 160-163
Georg Lukács: ‘Critical Realism and Socialist Realism’....Pages 163-166
Walter Benjamin: ‘The Author as Producer’....Pages 167-171
Terry Eagleton: ‘Towards A Science of The Text’....Pages 171-176
Rosalind Coward and John Ellis: ‘S/Z’....Pages 176-181
Fredric Jameson: ‘On Interpretation: Literature as A Socially Symbolic Act’....Pages 181-186
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Hans Robert Jauss: ‘Literary History as A Challenge to Literary Theory’....Pages 189-194
Wolfgang Iser: ‘Indeterminacy and the Reader’s Response’....Pages 195-199
David Bleich: ‘The Subjective Character of Critical Interpretation’....Pages 200-203
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Stanley Fish: ‘Interpreting the Variorum’....Pages 203-209
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Josephine Donovan: ‘Beyond the Net: Feminist Criticism as A Moral Criticism’....Pages 211-215
Elaine Showalter: ‘Towards a Feminist Poetics’....Pages 216-220
Elizabeth A. Meese: ‘Sexual Politics and Critical Judgment’....Pages 220-224
Hélène Cixous: ‘Conversations’....Pages 225-233
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Raymond Williams: ‘Dominant, Residual, and Emergent’....Pages 235-239
Louis A. Montrose: ‘Professing the Renaissance: the Poetics and Politics of Culture’....Pages 240-247
Alan Sinfield: ‘Reading Dissidence’....Pages 247-252
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Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels: ‘Against Theory’....Pages 254-259
Stanley Fish: ‘Consequences’....Pages 260-265
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Fredric Jameson: ‘Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’....Pages 267-275
Linda Hutcheon: ‘Theorizing the Postmodern’....Pages 275-282
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Edward W. Said: ‘Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories’....Pages 284-293
Homi K. Bhabha: ‘The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse’....Pages 293-301
Back Matter....Pages 302-306