Twentieth-Century Literary Theory Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
I	Russian Formalism and Prague Structuralism	1
1	'Art as Technique'	3
2	'The Dominant'	6
3	'The Object, Tasks and Methods of Literary History'	10
4	'Aesthetic Function, Norm and Value as Social Facts'	15
II	The New Criticism and Leavisian Criticism	19
5	'Poetry and Beliefs'	22
6	'The Formalist Critic'	26
7	'Formalist Criticism: Its Principles and Limits'	30
8	'The Relevant Context of a Literary Text'	34
9	'Literary Criticism and Philosophy'	37
10	'Object, Feeling and Judgement: F. R. Leavis'	41
III	Hermeneutics	45
11	'Language as Determination of the Hermeneutic Object'	47
12	'Three Dimensions of Hermeneutics'	51
13	'The Appeal to the Text: What Are We Appealing to?'	57
14	'The Conflict of Interpretations'	60
15	'Breaking the Circle: Hermeneutics as Dis-closure'	64
IV	Linguistic Criticism	70
16	'Linguistics and Poetics'	71
17	'Literature as Discourse'	77
V	Structuralism and Semiotics	83
18	'Definition of Poetics'	86
19	'Structuralism and Literary Criticism'	89
20	'Science versus Literature'	94
21	'Semiotics as a Theory of Reading'	98
22	'The Content and Structure of the Concept of "Literature"'	102
23	'The Problem of Interpretation'	106
VI	Post-Structuralism	112
24	'Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences'	115
25	'The Death of the Author'	120
26	'The System and the Speaking Subject'	124
27	'Lecture: 7 January 1976'	129
28	'The Resistance to Theory'	135
VII	Psychoanalytic Criticism	142
29	'Reading and Identity: A Psychoanalytic Revolution'	143
30	'Poetry, Revisionism and Repression'	148
31	'The Madness of Interpretation: Literature and Psychoanalysis'	153
VIII	Marxist and Neo-Marxist Criticism	158
32	'English Poets: The Decline of Capitalism'	160
33	'Critical Realism and Socialist Realism'	163
34	'The Author as Producer'	167
35	'Towards a Science of the Text'	171
36	'S/Z'	176
37	'On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act'	181
IX	Reception Theory and Reader-Response Criticism	187
38	'Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory'	189
39	'Indeterminacy and the Reader's Response'	195
40	'The Subjective Character of Critical Interpretation'	200
41	'Interpreting the Variorum'	203
X	Feminist Criticism	210
42	'Beyond the Net: Feminist Criticism as Moral Criticism'	211
43	'Towards a Feminist Poetics'	216
44	'Sexual Politics and Critical Judgment'	220
45	'Conversations'	225
XI	Cultural Materialism and New Historicism	234
46	'Dominant, Residual and Emergent'	235
47	'Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture'	240
48	'Reading Dissidence'	247
XII	New Pragmatism	253
49	'Against Theory'	254
50	'Consequences'	260
XIII	Postmodernism	266
51	'Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'	267
52	'Theorizing the Postmodern'	275
XIV	Post-Colonial Criticism	283
53	'Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories'	284
54	'The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse'	293
	Index	302