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Preface | p. x |
Introduction: The Prehistory and Rise of "Theory" | p. 1 |
Introduction Continued: Theory and Functionalization | p. 12 |
First Reflections On Interpretation And Reading | |
Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle | p. 27 |
Configurative Reading | p. 39 |
Text And Structure | |
The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork | p. 55 |
The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms | p. 68 |
Russian Formalism | p. 82 |
Semiotics and Structuralism | p. 95 |
Linguistics and Literature | p. 108 |
Deconstruction I: Jacques Derridap123 | |
Deconstruction II: Paul de Man | p. 137 |
Author (Reader) And Psyche | |
Freud and Fiction | p. 153 |
Jacques Lacan in Theory | p. 166 |
Influence | p. 179 |
The Postmodern Psyche | p. 192 |
The Social Context | |
The Social Permeability of Reader and Text | p. 207 |
The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory | p. 220 |
The Political Unconscious | p. 233 |
The New Historicism | p. 246 |
The Classical Feminist Tradition | p. 259 |
African American Criticism | p. 272 |
Postcolonial Criticism | p. 285 |
Queer Theory and Gender Performativity | p. 299 |
The Institutional Construction of Literary Study | p. 312 |
Theory Con And Pro | |
The End of Theory? Neo-Pragmaism | p. 329 |
Conclusion: Who Doesn't Hate Now? | p. 342 |
Appendix: Passages Referenced in lectures | p. 355 |
Notes | p. 363 |
The Varieties of Interpretation: A Guide to Further Reading in Literary Theory | p. 365 |
Index | p. 379 |
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