Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader Book

A. Contents arranged historically 1. Ferdinand de Saussure The object of study 2. Walter Benjamin The storyteller 3. Roman Jakobson Linguistics & poetics The metaphoric & metonymic poles 4. Jacques Lacan The insistence of the letter in the unconscious 5. Jacques Derrida Structure, sign & play in the discourse of the human sciences 6.Mikhail Bakhtin From the prehistory of novelistic discourse 7. Tzvetan Todorov The typology of detective form 8. Roland Barthes The death of the author Textual analysis: Poe's 'Valdemar' 9. Michel Foucault What is an author? 10. Wolfgang Iser The reading process: a phenomenological approach 11. Julia Kristeva The ethics of linguistics 12. Harold Bloom Poetic origins & final phases 13. E D Hirsch Jr. Faulty perspectives 14. M H Abrams The deconstructive angel 15. J Hillis Miller The critics as host 16. Helene Cixous Sorties 17. Edward Said Crisis (in orientalism) 18. Stanley Fish Interpreting the Variorum 19. Elaine Showalter Feminist criticism in the wilderness 20. Paul de Man The resistance to theory 21. Fredric Jameson The politics of theory: Ideological positions in the postmodernism debate 22. Terry Eagleton Capitalism, modernism & postmodernism 23. Geoffrey Hartman The interpreter's Freud 24. Juliet Mitchell Femininity, narrative & psychoanalysis 25. Umberto Eco Casablanca: Cult movies & intertextual collage 26. Jean Baudrillard Simulacra & simulations 27. Luce Irigaray The bodily encounter with the mother 28. Patrocinio P Schweickart Reading ourselves: towards a feminist theory of reading 29. Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick The beast in the closet 30. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Feminism & critical theory 31. Stephen Greenblatt The circulation of social energy 32. Jerome McGann The textual condition Index B. Contents arranged thematically I. Formalist, structuralist & post-structuralist poetics, linguistics & narratology II. Deconstruction III. Psychoanalysis IV. Politics, ideology, cultural history V. Feminism VI. Hermeneutics, reception theory, reader-response VII. Cognitive literary scholarship