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    Critical Theory Reading List

    Aim for inclusive coverage from all categories.

    Theory Before “Theory”


    1. Plato Republic, Book X
    2. Aristotle Poetics
    3. Horace Ars Poetica
    4. Longinus On the Sublime
    5. Samuel Johnson Preface to Shakespeare
    6. David Hume “Of the Standard of Taste”
    7. Immanuel Kant from Critique of Judgment
    8. William Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads
    9. Samuel Taylor Coleridge from Biographia Literaria
    10. G. W. F. Hegel Introduction to The Philosophy of Art
    11. Matthew Arnold “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
    12. Friedrich Nietzsche from The Birth of Tragedy, “On Truth and Lies in
    an Extramoral Sense”
    13. T.S. Eliot “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
    14. Mikhail Bakhtin from Discourse in the Novel
    15. Virginia Woolf Shakespeare's Sister from A Room of One's Own
    16. Kenneth Burke “Literature as Equipment for Living”
    17. Jean-Paul Sartre “Why Write?”
    18. Simone de Beauvoir “Myths: Of Women in Five Authors” (Second Sex)
    19. Northrop Frye “Archetypes of Literature” (Anatomy of Criticism)
    20. Erich Auerbach “Odysseus' Scar” (Mimesis)
    21. Hans-Georg Gadamer The Elevation of the Historicality of Understanding
    to the Status of the Hermeneutical Principle
    Formalisms
    22. Victor Schlovsky “Art as Technique”
    23. Cleanth Brooks “Irony as a Principle of Structure”

    Structuralism, Semiotics, and Deconstruction


    24. Ferdinand de Saussure “Nature of the Linguistic Sign”
    25. Claude Lévi-Strauss “The Structural Study of Myth”
    26. Roman Jakobson from Style in Language
    27. Vladimir Propp Morphology of the Folktale
    28. Gérard Genette “Frontiers of Narrative”
    29. Jacques Derrida Of Grammatology (including Spivak introduction)
    30. Roland Barthes S/Z
    31. Kaja Silverman from The Subject of Semiotics
    32. Michel Foucault “What is an Author?”
    33. Paul de Man “Semiology and Rhetoric”
    34. Cynthia Chase from Decomposing Figures
    35. Barbara Johnson from The Critical Difference
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    36. Jonathan Culler On Deconstruction, 1-3


    37. Geoffrey Hartman Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy

    Intentionality and Speech Act Theory


    38. Wimsatt and Beardsley “The Intentional Fallacy”
    39. E.D. Hirsch from Validity in Interpretation
    40. John Searle from Speech Acts
    41. J. L. Austin How To Do Things With Words
    42. Stanely Cavell from Must We Mean What We Say?
    43. Jacques Derrida Limited Inc.
    44. Knapp and Michaels “Against Theory”
    45. Stanley Fish “There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech”
    46. Judith Butler “Sovereign Performatives”

    Reader-Response Criticism
    47. Wolfgang Iser “The Reading Process: A Phenomenological
    Approach”
    48. Stanley Fish “Is There a Text in this Class?”
    49. Jane Tompkins from Sensational Designs

    Psychoanalytic Theory
    50. Sigmund Freud Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality,
    Civilization and its Discontents
    51. Paul Ricoeur Freud and Philosophy: An Essay in Interpretation
    52. Harold Bloom Anxiety of Influence, introduction (“A Meditation
    upon Priority
    53. Jacques Lacan Ecrits
    54. Jane Gallop from Reading Lacan
    55. Deleuze and Guattari from Anti-Oedipus
    56. Jacqueline Rose from The State of Fantasy
    57. Neil Hertz The End of the Line: Essays on Psychoanalysis and
    the Sublime

    Marxist Criticism
    58. Karl Marx Capital (Part I of Vol. I), The German Ideology
    59. Walter Benjamin “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
    Reproduction”
    60. George Lukács “The Ideology of Modernism”
    61. Theodor Adorno “Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment,” Minima
    Moralia
    62. Antonio Gramsci The Prison Notebooks
    63. Louis Althusser “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses,”
    excepts from Reading Capital
    64. Raymond Williams “Pastoral and Counter-pastoral” from The Country
    and the City; Culture and Society, chapter 1
    65. E.P. Thompson “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism”
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    66. Perry Anderson In the Tracks of Historical Materialism, chapter 1


    67. Terry Eagleton Criticism and Ideology
    68. Fredric Jameson The Political Unconscious, chapter 1
    69. Pierre Bourdieu from Outline of a Theory of Practice
    70. Jürgen Habermas from The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
    71. Martin Jay from Marxism and Totality
    72. Laclau and Mouffe from Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
    73. Hardt and Negri “The Political Constitution of the Present” (Empire)

    New Historicism and Cultural Studies


    74. Pierre Bourdieu “The Market of Symbolic Goods,”
    75. Clifford Geertz “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight”
    76. Edward W. Said Introduction to Orientalism
    77. Stephen Greenblatt “Invisible Bullets”
    78. D.A. Miller The Novel and the Police, Chapter 1
    79. Jean-François Lyotard Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
    80. Fredric Jameson “Postmodernism; Or, the Cultural Logic of Late
    Capitalism” New Left Review 146 (1984)
    81. Constance Penley "Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Study of
    Popular Culture"
    82. Stuart Hall “Encoding, Decoding”
    83. Michel de Certeau “Walking in the City”
    84. Stallybrass and White from The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
    85. Dick Hebdige “From Culture to Hegemony”
    86. Andrew Ross Introduction and Chapter One of No Respect

    Feminist Literary Criticism / Gender Studies and Queer Theory


    87. Gilbert and Gubar “Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and
    the Anxiety of Authorship”
    88. Laura Mulvey "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
    89. Hélène Cixous "The Laugh of the Medusa"
    90. Michel Foucault The History of Sexuality, Vol. I
    91. Julia Kristeva from Powers of Horror
    92. Luce Irigaray "This Sex Which Is Not One"
    93. Teresa de Lauretis Technologies of Gender
    94. Gayle Rubin “Thinking Sex”
    95. David Halperin “One Hundred Years of Homosexuality”
    96. Judith Butler Gender Trouble
    97. Ann Laura Stoler from The Education of Desire
    98. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Epistemology of the Closet, “Introduction:
    Axiomatic”
    99. Leo Bersani “Is the Rectum a Grave?” Homos
    100. Michael Warner from The Trouble with Normal
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    Multiculturalism and the Canon Wars


    101. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "Writing, 'Race,' and the Difference It
    Makes"
    102. John Guillory Cultural Capital, chapter 1
    103. Barbara Christian “The Race for Theory”
    104. Homi K. Bhabha “The Location of Culture”
    105. Cornel West “The New Cultural Politics of Difference”
    106. Chandra Mohanty Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism

    Postcolonial Theory
    107. Ngugi wa Thiong’o Decolonizing the Mind
    108. George Lamming “The Occasion for Speaking” from The Pleasures of
    Exile
    109. Chinua Achebe “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of
    Darkness”
    110. Gayatri Spivak “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of
    Imperialism,” “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
    111. Paul Gilroy The Black Atlantic, Introduction
    112. Homi Bhabha “Signs Taken for Wonders,” in Location of Culture
    113. Arjun Appuradai “Playing with Modernity The Decolonization of
    Indian Cricket,” from Modernity at Large
    114. Mary Louise Pratt from Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and
    Tranculturation
    115. Simon Gikandi Maps of Englishness, Introduction
    116. Anne McClintock from Imperial Leather

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