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