Twentieth-Century Literary Theory A Reader

A thoroughly revised edition of this successful undergraduate introduction to literary theory, this text includes core pieces by leading theorists from Russian Formalists to Postmodernist and Post-colonial critics. An ideal teaching resource, with helpful introductory notes to each chapter.

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

xiii

I RUSSIAN FORMALISM AND PRAGUE STRUCTURALISM

1

(18)

`Art as Technique'

3

(3)

Victor Shklovsky

`The Dominant'

6

(4)

Roman Jakobson

`The Object, Tasks and Methods of Literary History'

10

(5)

P. N. Medvedev

M. Bakhtin

`Aesthetic Function, Norm and Value as Social Facts'

15

(4)

Jan Mukarovsky

II THE NEW CRITICISM AND LEAVISIAN CRITICISM

19

(26)

`Poetry and Beliefs'

22

(4)

I. A. Richards

`The Formalist Critic'

26

(4)

Cleanth Brooks

`Formalist Criticism: Its Principles and Limits'

30

(4)

Kenneth Burke

`The Relevant Context of a Literary Text'

34

(3)

John M. Ellis

`Literary Criticism and Philosophy'

37

(4)

F. R. Leavis

`Object, Feeling and Judgement: F. R. Leavis'

41

(4)

John Casey

III HERMENEUTICS

45

(25)

`Language as Determination of the Hermeneutic Object'

47

(4)

Hans-Georg Gadamer

`Three Dimensions of Hermeneutics'

51

(1)

E. D. Hirsch Jr.

`The Appeal to the Text: What Are We Appealing to?'

51

(9)

P. D. Juhl

`The Conflict of Interpretations'

60

(4)

Paul Ricoeur

`Breaking the Circle: Hermeneutics as Dis-closure'

64

(6)

William V. Spanos

IV LINGUISTIC CRITICISM

70

(13)

`Linguistics and Poetics'

71

(6)

Roman Jakobson

`Literature as Discourse'

77

(6)

Roger Fowler

V STRUCTURALISM AND SEMIOTICS

83

(29)

`Definition of Poetics'

86

(3)

Tzvetan Todorov

`Structuralism and Literary Criticism'

89

(5)

Gerard Genette

`Science versus Literature'

94

(4)

Roland Barthes

`Semiotics as a Theory of Reading'

98

(4)

Jonathan Culler

`The Content and Structure of the Concept of ``Literature'' '

102

(4)

Yury M. Lotman

`The Problem of Interpretation'

106

(6)

Morse Peckham

VI POST-STRUCTURALISM

112

(30)

`Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences'

115

(5)

Jacques Derrida

`The Death of the Author'

120

(4)

Roland Barthes

`The System and the Speaking Subject'

124

(5)

Julia Kristeva

`Lecture: 7 January 1976'

129

(6)

Michel Foucault

`The Resistance to Theory'

135

(7)

Paul de Man

VII PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

142

(16)

`Reading and Identity: A Psychoanalytic Revolution'

143

(5)

Norman N. Holland

`Poetry, Revisionism and Repression'

148

(5)

Harold Bloom

`The Madness of Interpretation: Literature and Psychoanalysis'

153

(5)

Shoshana Felman

VIII MARXIST AND NEO-MARXIST CRITICISM

158

(29)

`English Poets: The Decline of Capitalism'

160

(3)

Christopher Caudwell

`Critical Realism and Socialist Realism'

163

(4)

Georg Lukacs

`The Author as Producer'

167

(4)

Walter Benjamin

`Towards a Science of the Text'

171

(5)

Terry Eagleton

`S/Z'

176

(5)

Rosalind Coward

John Ellis

`On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act'

181

(6)

Fredric Jameson

IX RECEPTION THEORY AND READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM

187

(23)

`Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory'

189

(6)

Hans Robert Jauss

`Indeterminacy and the Reader's Response'

195

(5)

Wolfgang Iser

`The Subjective Character of Critical Interpretation'

200

(3)

David Bleich

`Interpreting the Variorum'

203

(7)

Stanley Fish

X FEMINIST CRITICISM

210

(24)

`Beyond the Net: Feminist Criticism as Moral Criticism'

211

(5)

Josephine Donovan

`Towards a Feminist Poetics'

216

(4)

Elaine Showalter

`Sexual Politics and Critical Judgment'

220

(5)

Elizabeth A. Meese

`Conversations'

225

(9)

Helene Cixous

XI CULTURAL MATERIALISM AND NEW HISTORICISM

234

(19)

`Dominant, Residual and Emergent'

235

(5)

Raymond Williams

`Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture'

240

(7)

Louis A. Montrose

`Reading Dissidence'

247

(6)

Alan Sinfield

XII NEW PRAGMATISM

253

(13)

`Against Theory'

254

(6)

Steven Knapp

Walter Benn Michaels

`Consequences'

260

(6)

Stanley Fish

XIII POSTMODERNISM

266

(17)

`Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'

267

(8)

Fredric Jameson

`Theorizing the Postmodern'

275

(8)

Linda Hutcheon

XIV POST-COLONIAL CRITICISM

283

(19)

`Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories'

284

(9)

Edward W. Said

`The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse'

293

(9)

Homi K. Bhabha

Index

302

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