Literary Theory

Julie Rivlin is an Associate Professor at Connecticut College, where she theaches courses in American Literature, Contemporary Women Writers, and Literary Theory. She is the author of False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James's Fiction (1996). Michael Ryan is Professor of English at Northeastern University, where he teaches courses in American Literature and Culture, American Film, and Literary Theory. His books include Marxism and Deconstruction (1982), Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary American Film (with Douglas Kellner, 1986) and Politics and Culture: Working Hypotheses for a Post-Revolutionary Society (19890.

Preface.Acknowledgments.Copyright Acknowledgments.Part I: Formalisms:1. Introduction: "Formalisms": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan.2. "Introduction to the Formal Method": Boris Eichenbaum.3. "Art as Technique": Viktor Shklovsky.4. "Thematics": Boris Tomashevsky.5. Morphology of the Folktale: V. Propp.6. "Discourse in the Novel": Mikhail Bakhtin.7. Rabelais and His World: Mikhail Bakhtin.8. "The Formalist Critics": Cleanth Brooks.9. "The Language Paradox": Cleanth Brooks.Appendix: "The Canonization": John Donne.Part II: Structuralism and Linguistics:10. Introduction: "The Linguistic Foundation": Jonathan Culler.11. Course in General Linguistics: Ferdinand de Saussure.12. "Two Aspects of Language": Roman Jakobson.13. How to Do Things with Words: J. L. Austin.14. "The Structural Study of Myth": Claude Levi-Strauss.Part III: Psychoanalysis:15. Introduction: "Strangers to Ourselves: Psychoanalysis": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan.16. The Interpretation of Dreams: Sigmund Freud.17. "On Narcissim": Sigmund Freud.18. "The Uncanny": Sigmund Freud.19. Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Sigmund Freud.20. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego: Sigmund Freud.21. "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience": Jacques Lacan.22. "The Symbolic Order" (From "The Function and Field of Speech and Language of Psychoanalysis"): Jacques Lacan.23. "The Instance the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud": Jacques Lacan.24. The Anti-Oedipus: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.25. "The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant": Margaret Mahler.26. "Two Primary Configurations of Psychopathology": Sydney J. Blatt and Shula Schichman.27. "Triangular Desire": Rene Girard.Part IV: Marxism:28. Introduction: "Starting with Zero: Basic Marxism": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan.29. "Dialectics" (From The Science of Logic): G. W. F. Hegel.30. Grundrisse: Karl Marx.31. The German Ideology: Karl Marx.32. The Manifesto of the Communist Party: Karl Marx.33. "Wage Labor and Capital": Karl Marx.34. Capital: Karl Marx.35. "Hegemony" (From "The Formation of the Intellectuals"): Antonio Gramsci.36. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language: V. N. Volosinov.37. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction": Walter Benjamin.38. The Historical Novel: Georg Lukacs.39. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses": Louis Altusser.40. "Culture, Ideology, Interpellation": John Fiske.41. The Sublime Object of Ideology: Slovoj Zizek.42. "White Guys Happiest, Study Finds": Ronald Kotulak.43. "Nike Told of Worker Abuses in Vietnam Factories": Verena Dobnik.Part V: Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-Modernism:44. Introduction: "The Class of 1968 - Post-Structuralism par lui-meme": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan.45. "On Truth and Lying in and Extra-Moral Sense": Fridrich Nietzsche.46. The Will to Power: Fridrich Nietzsche.47. Being and Time: Martin Heidegger.48. Identity and Difference: Martin Heidegger.49. "Heterology": George Bataille.50. The Order of Things: Michel Foucault.51. "Difference": Jacques Derrida.52. The System of Objects: Jean Baudrillard.53. The Archaeology of Knowledge: Michel Foucault.54. "Plato's Pharmacy": Jacques Derrida.55. Revolution in Poetic Language: Julia Kristeva.56. Discipline and Punish: Michel Foucalt.57. Symbolic Exchange and Death: Jean Baudrillard.58. The Postmodern Condition: Jean Francois.59. A Thousand Plateaus: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.Part VI: Feminism:60. Introduction: "Feminist Paradigms": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan.61. "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex": Gayle Rubin.62. "On the Politics of Literature": Judith Fetterley.63. "The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine": Luce Irigary.64. "Commodities amongst Themselves": Luce Irigary.65. "Sorties": Helene Cixous.66. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema": Laura Mulvey.67. The Madwoman in the Attic: Sandra Gilbert.68. "The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours": Patricia Klindienst.69. "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference": Audre Lorde.70. "Notes Toward a Politics of Location": Adrienne Rich.71. "Representation, Reproduction, and Women's Place in Language": Margaret Homans.72. "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar book": Hortense Spillers.Part VII: Gender Studies, Gay/Lesbian Studies, Queer Theory:73. Introduction: "Contingencies of Gender": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan.74. "Sexual Transformations" (From "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality"): Gayle Rubin.75. The History of Sexuality: Michel Foucalt.76. Introduction to Guy Hocquengham's Homosexual Desire: Jeffrey Weeks.77. Between Men: Eve Kosofsky.78. "The Technology of Gender": Teresa de Lauretis.79. "Imitation and Gender Insubordination": Judith Butler.80. "Homographesis": Lee Edelman.81. "A Small Boy and Others: Sexual Disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth Anger, and David Lynch": Michael Moon.82. "F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity": Judith Halberstam.83. "Heterosexuality as a Compromise Formation": Nancy Chodorow.Part VIII: Historicisms:84. Introduction: "Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture": Louis Montrose.85. "Invisible Bullets": Stephen Greenblatt.86. "Cultural Materialism, Othelo, and the Politics of Plausibility": Alan Sinfield.87. "Melville, Delany, and New World Slavery": Eric Sundquist.Part IX: Ethnic Studies, Post-Coloniality, International Studies:88. Introduction: "English Without Shadows, Literature on a World Scale": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan.89. The Rule of Darkness: Patrick Brantlinger.90. "The Souls of Black Folk": W. E. B. DuBois.91. Orientalism: Edward Said.92. Borderlands / La Frontera: Gloria Anzaldua.93. "The Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the Signifying Monkey": Henry Louis Gates.94. "Playing in the Dark": Toni Morrison.95. The Location of Culture: Homi Bhabha.96. "Topologies of Nativism": Anthony Appiah.97. "Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: An Exercise in Popular Readings": Rey Chow.98. The Black Atlantic: Paul Gilroy.99. The Repeating Island: Antonio Beniez-Rojo.100. "Migratory Subjectives": Carole Boyce Davies.101. A Small Place: Jamaica Kincaid.Part X: Cultural Studies:102. Introduction: "The Politics of Culture": Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan.103. Distinction: Pierre Bourdieu.104. "The Culture Industry as Mass Deception": Max Horkheimer and Theodore Adorno.105. Reading the Romance: Janice Radway.106. "The Rediscovery of 'Ideology'": Stuart Hall.107. Subculture: The Meaning of Style: Dick Hebdige.108. "Punk and History": Malcolm McLaren.109. All-Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture:Stuart Ewen.110. Television Culture: John Fiske.111. "'Material Girl': The Effacements of Postmodern Culture": Susan Bordo.Index.