Literary Theory : An Anthology

by Rivkin, Julie; Ryan, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781405106962
• ISBN10: 1405106964
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-14
• Publisher: WILEY & SONS, INCORPORATED, JOHN

Summary

This anthology of classic and cutting-edge statements in literary theory has now been updated to include recent influential texts in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Postcolonialism and International Studies. A definitive collection of classic statements in criticism and new theoretical work from the past few decades. All the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory are represented, from Formalism to Postcolonialism. Enables students to familiarise themselves with the most recent developments in literary theory and with the traditions from which these new theories derive.

Author Biography

Julie Rivkin is Professor at Connecticut College, where she teaches courses in American Literature, Contemporary Women Writers, and Literary Theory. She is the author of False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James's Fiction (1996).

Michael Ryan is Professor of English at Northeastern University, where he teaches courses in American Literature and Culture, American Film, and Literary Theory.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Preface to the Second Edition	xii
Acknowledgments	xiii
Part One Formalisms: Russian Formalism and New Criticism
Introduction: Formalisms	3	(4)
Julie Rivkin
Michael Ryan
The Formal Method	7	(8)
Boris Eichenbaum
Art as Technique	15	(7)
Viktor Shklovsky
The Formalist Critics	22	(6)
Cleanth Brooks
The Language of Paradox	28	(12)
Cleanth Brooks
The Structure of the Concrete Universal	40	(13)
W. K. Wimsatt Jr.
Part Two Structuralism, Linguistics, Narratology
Introduction: The Implied Order: Structuralism	53	(3)
Julie Rivkin
Michael Ryan
The Linguistic Foundation	56	(3)
Jonathan Culler
Course in General Linguistics	59	(13)
Ferdinand de Saussure
Morphology of the Folk-tale	72	(4)
Vladimir Propp
Two Aspects of Language	76	(5)
Roman Jakobson
Mythologies	81	(9)
Roland Barthes
The Archaeology of Knowledge	90	(7)
Michel Foucault
The Structure of Narrative Transmission	97	(30)
Seymour Chatman
Part Three Rhetoric, Phenomenology, Reader Response
Introduction: Language and Action	127	(4)
Julie Rivkin
Michael Ryan
Transcendental Aesthetic	131	(6)
Immanuel Kant
Ideas	137	(5)
Edmund Husserl
Classical Rhetoric	142	(20)
Edward P. J. Corbett
How To Do Things With Words	162	(15)
J. L. Austin
Tacit Persuasion Patterns and A Dictionary of Rhetorical Terms	177	(18)
Richard Lanham
Not so much a Teaching as an Intangling	195	(22)
Stanley Fish
Interpretive Communities	217	(5)
Stanley Fish
Text and System	222	(15)
John Frow
Distinction	237	(20)
Pierre Bourdieu
Part Four Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-modernism
Introduction: Introductory Deconstruction	257	(5)
Julie Rivkin
Michael Ryan
On Truth and Lying in an Extra-moral Sense	262	(4)
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power	266	(5)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Identity and Difference	271	(2)
Martin Heidegger
Heterology	273	(5)
Georges Bataille
Differance	278	(22)
Jacques Derrida
Of Grammatology	300	(32)
Jacques Derrida
Semiology and Grammatology	332	(8)
Jacques Derrida
Writing	340	(8)
Barbara Johnson
The Newly Born Woman	348	(7)
Helene Cixous
The Postmodern Condition	355	(10)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Simulacra and Simulations	365	(13)
Jean Baudrillard
A Thousand Plateaus	378	(11)
Gilles Deleuze
Felix Guattari
Part Five Psychoanalysis and Psychology
Introduction: Strangers to Ourselves: Psychoanalysis	389	(8)
Julie Rivkin
Michael Ryan
The Interpretation of Dreams	397	(18)
Sigmund Freud
On Narcissism	415	(3)
Sigmund Freud
The Uncanny	418	(13)
Sigmund Freud
Beyond the Pleasure Principle	431	(7)
Sigmund Freud
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego	438	(3)
Sigmund Freud
The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I	441	(6)
Jacques Lacan
The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious	447	(15)
Jacques Lacan
The Negro and Psychopathology	462	(8)
Frantz Fanon
Pre-Oedipal Gender Configurations	470	(17)
Nancy Chodorow
The Black Hole of Trauma	487	(18)
Bessel A. van der Kolk
Alexander C. McFarlane
Part Six Historicisms
Introduction: Writing the Past	505	(3)
Julie Rivkin
Michael Ryan
The Country and the City	508	(25)
Raymond Williams
Witness Against the Beast	533	(16)
E. P. Thompson
Discipline and Punish	549	(18)
Michel Foucault
Some Call it Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity	567	(17)
Nancy Armstrong
Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture	584	(8)
Louis Montrose
Shakespeare and the Exorcists	592	(29)
Stephen Greenblatt
Melville, Delany, and New World Slavery	621	(22)
Eric Sundquist
Part Seven Political Criticism: From Marxism to Cultural Materialism
Introduction: Starting with Zero	643	(4)
Julie Rivkin
Michael Ryan
Dialectics	647	(3)
G. W. F. Hegel
Grundrisse	650	(3)
Karl Marx
The German Ideology	653	(6)
Karl Marx
Wage Labor and Capital	659	(6)
Karl Marx
Capital	665	(8)
Karl Marx
Hegemony	673	(1)
Antonio Gramsci
Discourse in the Novel	674	(12)
Mikhail Bakhtin
Rabelais and his World	686	(7)
Mikhail Bakhtin
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses	693	(10)
Louis Althusser
For a Theory of Literary Production	703	(9)
Pierre Macherey
The Sublime Object of Ideology	712	(13)
Slavoj Zizek
Difference and the Future	725	(18)
Antonio Negri
Cultural Materialism, Othello, and the Politics of Plausibility	743	(22)
Alan Sinfield
Part Eight Feminism
Introduction: Feminist Paradigms	765	(5)
Julie Rivkin
Michael Ryan
The Traffic in Women	770	(25)
Gayle Rubin
The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine	795	(4)
Luce Irigaray
Women on the Market	799	(13)
Luce Irigaray
The Madwoman in the Attic	812	(14)
Sandra Gilbert
Susan Gubar
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle	826	(12)
Coppelia Kahn
Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism	838	(16)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference	854	(7)
Audre Lorde
``A Great Way to Fly'': Nationalism, the State, and the Varieties of Third-World Feminism	861	(24)
Geraldine Heng
Part Nine Gender Studies
Introduction: Contingencies of Gender	885	(4)
Julie Rivkin
Michael Ryan
Sexual Transformations	889	(3)
Gayle Rubin
The History of Sexuality	892	(8)
Michel Foucault
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution	900	(12)
Judith Butler
Epistemology of the Closet	912	(10)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
A Small Boy and Others: Sexual Disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth Anger, and David Lynch	922	(13)
Michael Moon
Female Masculinity	935	(24)
Judith Halberstam
Part Ten Ethnic Literary and Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory
Introduction: Situating Race	959	(5)
Julie Rivkin
Michael Ryan
The Social Construction of Race	964	(11)
Ian F. Haney Lopez
Interrogating ``Whiteness''	975	(12)
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey	987	(18)
Henry Louis Gates
Playing in the Dark	1005	(12)
Toni Morrison
Borderlands/La Frontera	1017	(14)
Gloria Anzaldua
Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences	1031	(20)
Lisa Lowe
Tradition, Invention, and Aesthetics in Native American Literature	1051	(20)
Robert Dale Parker
Part Eleven Colonial, Post-colonial, and Transnational Studies
Introduction: English Without Shadows: Literature on a World Scale	1071	(4)
Julie Rivkin
Michael Ryan
History	1075	(15)
Dennis Walder
The Revival of the Imperial Spirit	1090	(10)
C. C. Eldridge
Situating Colonial and Postcolonial Studies	1100	(12)
Ania Loomba
Jane Austen and Empire	1112	(14)
Edward Said
Decolonising the Mind	1126	(25)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
English in the Caribbean	1151	(16)
Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Signs Taken for Wonders	1167	(18)
Homi K. Bhabha
The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term ``Post-colonialism''	1185	(12)
Anne McClintock
Casualties of Freedom	1197	(13)
Chidi Okonkwo
The Anxious Proximities of Settler (Post)colonial Relations	1210	(14)
Alan Lawson
A Small Place	1224	(9)
Jamaica Kincaid
Part Twelve Cultural Studies
Introduction: The Politics of Culture	1233	(2)
Julie Rivkin
Michael Ryan
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction	1235	(7)
Walter Benjamin
The Culture Industry as Mass Deception	1242	(5)
Max Horkheimer
Theodor Adorno
The Practice of Everyday Life	1247	(11)
Michel de Certeau
Subculture: The Meaning of Style	1258	(10)
Dick Hebdige
Culture, Ideology, Interpellation	1268	(6)
John Fiske
Television Culture	1274	(11)
John Fiske
Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity	1285	(26)
Adam Krims
Index	1311