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The Critical Tradition Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends

ISBN: 9780312415204 | 0312415206
Edition: 3rd
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 3/22/2006

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
This bestseller balances a comprehensive and up-to-date anthology of major documents in literary criticism and theory from Plato to the present with the most thorough editorial support for understanding these challenging readings.
Prefacev
Introduction1(22)
Part One CLASSIC TEXTS IN LITERARY CRITICISM
23(724)
Plato
... MORE(30)
Republic, Book X
30(8)
Ton
38(8)
From Phaedrus
46(4)
Dialogue with Plato
50(2)
Leo Tolstoy: From What Is Art?
52(3)
Aristotle
55(27)
From Poetics
59(23)
Horace
82(13)
The Art of Poetry
84(11)
Longinus
95(14)
From On the Sublime
97(12)
Plotinus
109(11)
On the Intellectual Beauty
111(9)
Dante Alighieri
120(4)
From Letter to Can Grande della Scala
121(3)
Christine de Pisan
124(8)
From La Querelle de la Rose
126(6)
Sir Philip Sidney
132(28)
An Apology for Poetry
135(25)
John Dryden
160(29)
From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
163(26)
Aphra Behn
189(9)
An Epistle to the Reader from The Dutch Lover
192(3)
Preface to the Lucky Chance
195(3)
Alexander Pope
198(12)
An Essay on Criticism
199(11)
Samuel Johnson
210(21)
The Rambler, No. 4
212(3)
Rasselas, Chapter 10
215(1)
From Preface to Shakespeare
216(15)
David Hume
231(16)
Of the Standard of Taste
234(11)
Dialogue with David Hume
245(1)
Barbara Herrnstein Smith: From Contingencies of Value
245(2)
Immanuel Kant
247(28)
From Critique of Judgment
251(24)
Mary Wollstonecraft
275(10)
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
277(8)
Germaine de Stael
285(13)
From Essay on Fictions
287(6)
On Women Writers
293(5)
Friedrich von Schiller
298(6)
From On Naive and Sentimental Poetry
300(4)
William Wordsworth
304(15)
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
306(13)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
319(11)
Shakespeare's Judgment Equal to His Genius
323(2)
From Biographia Literaria
325(5)
John Keats
330(4)
From a Letter to Benjamin Bailey
331(2)
From a Letter to George and Thomas Keats
333(1)
Thomas Love Peacock
334(10)
The Four Ages of Poetry
335(9)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
344(25)
A Defence of Poetry
346(18)
Dialogue with Percy Bysshe Shelley
364(1)
Raymond Williams: The Romantic Artist from Culture and Society 1780--1950
364(5)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
369(15)
Introduction to the Philosophy of Art
373(11)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
384(13)
The Poet
385(12)
Karl Marx
397(15)
The Alienation of Labor from Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
400(6)
Consciousness Derived from Material Conditions from The German Ideology
406(4)
On Greek Art in Its Time from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
410(2)
Matthew Arnold
412(23)
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
415(14)
From The Study of Poetry
429(6)
Friedrich Nietzsche
435(27)
From The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music
439(13)
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense
452(7)
From Twilight of the Idols
459(3)
Henry James
462(14)
The Art of Fiction
464(12)
Oscar Wilde
476(21)
The Decay of Lying
478(19)
Sigmund Freud
497(37)
The Dream-Work from The Interpretation of Dreams
500(9)
[Creative Writers and Daydreaming]
509(5)
The ``Uncanny''
514(19)
Medusa's Head
533(1)
T. S. Eliot
534(8)
Tradition and the Individual Talent
537(5)
Carl Gustav Jung
542(23)
On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry
544(10)
The Principal Archetypes
554(11)
W. E. B. Du Bois
565(10)
[On Double Consciousness] from The Souls of Black Folk
567(2)
Criteria of Negro Art
569(6)
Mikhail Bakhtin
575(21)
The Topic of the Speaking Person from Discourse in the Novel
578(10)
Heteroglossia in the Novel from Discourse in the Novel
588(6)
From Problems in Dostoevsky's Poetics
594(2)
Virginia Woolf
596(15)
[Shakespeare's Sister] from A Room of One's Own
599(3)
[Austen -- Bronte -- Eliot] from A Room of One's Own
602(5)
[The Androgynous Vision] from A Room of One's Own
607(4)
Martin Heidegger
611(11)
Holderlin and the Essence of Poetry
614(8)
Edmund Wilson
622(11)
From Dickens: The Two Scrooges
624(9)
Kenneth Burke
633(17)
Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats
636(9)
Literature as Equipment for Living
645(5)
F. R. Leavis
650(9)
From The Great Tradition
652(7)
Jean-Paul Sartre
659(14)
Why Write?
662(11)
Simone de Beauvoir
673(6)
Myths: Of Women in Five Authors
676(3)
J. L. Austin
679(12)
[Constatives and Performatives] from How to Do Things with Words
681(4)
[Speech Acts: Locutionary, Illocutionary, Perlocutionary] from How to Do Things with Words
685(6)
Northrop Frye
691(11)
The Archetypes of Literature
693(9)
Erich Auerbach
702(16)
Odysseus' Scar
704(14)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
718(20)
The Elevation of the Historicality of Understanding to the Status of Hermeneutical Principle
721(17)
Susan Sontag
738(9)
Against Interpretation
740(7)
Part Two CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN LITERARY CRITICISM
747(1272)
Formalisms: Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Neo-Aristotelianism
749(70)
I. A. Richards
763(11)
From Principles of Literary Criticism
764(10)
Victor Shklovsky
774(11)
Art as Technique
775(10)
Vladimir Propp
785(12)
[Fairy Tale Transformations]
785(12)
Cleanth Brooks
797(13)
From My Credo: Formalist Criticism
798(1)
Irony as a Principle of Structure
799(8)
Dialogue with Cleanth Brooks
807(1)
R. S. Crane: From The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks
807(3)
W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley
810(9)
The Intentional Fallacy
811(8)
Structuralism and Deconstruction
819(143)
Ferdinand de Saussure
841(11)
Nature of the Linguistic Sign
842(3)
[Binary Oppositions]
845(7)
Roman Jakobson
852(7)
From Linguistics and Poetics
852(7)
Claude Levi-Strauss
859(9)
The Structural Study of Myth
860(8)
Roland Barthes
868(14)
Striptease
869(2)
The Structuralist Activity
871(3)
The Death of the Author
874(4)
From Work to Text
878(4)
Paul de Man
882(22)
Semiology and Rhetoric
882(11)
Dialogue with Paul de Man
893(1)
Lawrence Lipking: The Practice of Theory
894(10)
Michel Foucault
904(10)
What Is an Author?
904(10)
Jacques Derrida
914(36)
Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
915(11)
The Father of Logos from Plato's Pharmacy
926(6)
Differance
932(18)
Umberto Eco
950(12)
The Myth of Superman
950(12)
Reader-Response Theory
962(144)
Hans Robert Jauss
981(8)
[The Three Horizons of Reading] from Toward an Aesthetics of Reception
982(7)
Wayne C. Booth
989(12)
Control of Distance in Jane Austen's Emma
989(12)
Wolfgang Iser
1001(13)
The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach
1002(12)
Norman N. Holland
1014(8)
The Question: Who Reads What How?
1015(7)
Stanley Fish
1022(13)
How to Recognize a Poem When You See One
1023(8)
Dialogue with Stanley Fish
1031(1)
James Phelan: From Data, Danda, and Disagreement
1031(4)
Judith Fetterley
1035(7)
Introduction to The Resisting Reader
1035(7)
Peter Rabinowitz
1042(15)
From Before Reading
1043(14)
Elaine Scarry
1057(19)
On Vivacity: The Difference between Daydreaming and Imagining-Under-Authorial-Instruction
1058(18)
Mark Turner
1076(13)
Poetry: Metaphor and the Conceptual Context of Invention
1077(12)
Lisa Zunshine
1089(17)
Theory of Mind and Experimental Representations of Fictional Consciousness
1089(17)
Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism
1106(92)
Jacques Lacan
1122(33)
The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience
1123(6)
The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud
1129(20)
The Meaning of the Phallus
1149(6)
Harold Bloom
1155(6)
A Meditation upon Priority
1156(5)
Peter Brooks
1161(11)
Freud's Masterplot
1161(11)
Laura Mulvey
1172(8)
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
1172(8)
Slavoj Zizek
1180(18)
Courtly Love, or, Woman as Thing
1181(17)
Marxist Criticism
1198(122)
Georg Lukacs
1217(15)
The Ideology of Modernism
1218(14)
Walter Benjamin
1232(17)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
1233(16)
Bertolt Brecht
1249(5)
The Popular and the Realistic
1250(4)
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
1254(9)
From The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
1255(8)
Louis Althusser
1263(9)
From Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
1264(8)
Raymond Williams
1272(18)
From Marxism and Literature
1272(18)
Fredric Jameson
1290(17)
From The Political Unconscious
1291(16)
Terry Eagleton
1307(13)
Categories for a Materialist Criticism
1308(12)
New Historicism and Cultural Studies
1320(182)
Michel de Certeau
1342(15)
Walking in the City
1343(14)
Michel Foucault
1357(9)
Las Meninas
1357(9)
Clifford Geertz
1366(17)
Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
1367(16)
Hayden White
1383(15)
The Historical Text as Literary Artifact
1384(14)
Pierre Bourdieu
1398(6)
From Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste
1398(6)
Stuart Hall
1404(14)
Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms
1404(14)
Nancy Armstrong
1418(14)
Some Call It Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity
1419(13)
Lawrence Buell
1432(10)
The Ecocritical Insurgency
1433(9)
Stephen Greenblatt
1442(10)
Introduction to The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance
1443(2)
King Lear and Harsnett's ``Devil-Fiction''
1445(3)
Dialogue with Stephen Greenblatt
1448(1)
Frank Lentricchia Jr.: From Ariel and the Police
1448(4)
Meaghan Morris
1452(19)
Things to Do with Shopping Centres
1452(19)
John Guillory
1471(13)
From Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation
1472(12)
Laura Kipnis
1484(18)
(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler
1485(17)
Feminist Literary Criticism
1502(109)
Nina Baym
1519(12)
Melodramas of Beset Manhood
1520(11)
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
1531(19)
From Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship
1532(13)
Dialogue with Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
1545(1)
Toril Moi: From Sexual/Textual Politics
1545(5)
Annette Kolodny
1550(13)
Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism
1550(13)
Julia Kristeva
1563(16)
Women's Time
1563(16)
Jonathan Culler
1579(21)
Reading as a Woman
1579(12)
Dialogue between Elaine Showalter and Terry Eagleton
1591(1)
Elaine Showalter: From Critical Cross-Dressing: Male Feminists and the Woman of the Year
1592(5)
Terry Eagleton: A Response to Elaine Showalter
1597(2)
Elaine Showalter: In Reply
1599(1)
Barbara Smith
1600(11)
Toward a Black Feminist Criticism
1600(11)
Gender Studies and Queer Theory
1611(142)
Michel Foucault
1627(10)
From The History of Sexuality
1627(10)
Monique Wittig
1637(6)
One Is Not Born a Woman
1637(6)
Helene Cixous
1643(13)
The Laugh of the Medusa
1643(13)
Guy Hocquenghem
1656(7)
From Homosexual Desire
1656(7)
Gayle Rubin
1663(20)
From The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ``Political Economy'' of Sex
1664(19)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
1683(8)
From Between Men
1684(3)
From Epistemology of the Closet
1687(4)
Steven Kruger
1691(16)
Claiming the Pardoner: Toward a Gay Reading of Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
1692(15)
Judith Butler
1707(14)
Imitation and Gender Insubordination
1707(12)
Dialogue with Judith Butler
1719(1)
Martha Nussbaum: From The Professor of Parody
1719(2)
Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner
1721(13)
Sex in Public
1722(12)
Judith Halberstam
1734(19)
From the Introduction to Female Masculinity
1735(18)
Postcolonialism and Ethnic Studies
1753(167)
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
1777(6)
What Is a Minor Literature?
1777(6)
Chinua Achebe
1783(8)
An Image of Africa
1783(8)
Toni Morrison
1791(10)
From Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
1791(10)
Edward W. Said
1801(13)
From the Introduction to Orientalism
1801(13)
Benedict Anderson
1814(6)
The Origins of National Consciousness
1815(5)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
1820(16)
Europhonism, Universities, and the Magic Fountain: The Future of African Literature and Scholarship
1821(8)
Dialogue Between Fredric Jameson and Aijaz Ahmad
1829(1)
Fredric Jameson: From Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism
1830(1)
Aijaz Ahmad: From Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the ``National Allegory''
1831(3)
Fredric Jameson: A Brief Response
1834(2)
Gayatri Spivak
1836(14)
Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism
1837(13)
Gloria Anzaldua
1850(8)
La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness
1850(8)
Barbara Christian
1858(17)
The Race for Theory
1859(7)
Dialogue with Barbara Christian
1866(1)
Michael Awkward: From Appropriative Gestures: Theory and Afro-American Literary Criticism
1867(3)
Deborah E. McDowell: From Recycling: Race, Gender, and the Practice of Theory
1870(5)
Homi K. Bhabha
1875(15)
Signs Taken for Wonders: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 1817
1875(15)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
1890(19)
Writing, ``Race,'' and the Difference It Makes
1891(12)
Dialogue Between Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Houston A. Baker Jr.
1903(1)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: From Preface to Blackness: Text and Pretext
1904(2)
Houston A. Baker Jr.: From Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature
1906(3)
Rey Chow
1909(11)
The Interruption of Referentiality: Poststructuralism and the Conundrum of Critical Multiculturalism
1910(10)
Theorizing Postmodernism
1920(99)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
1933(2)
Defining the Postmodern
1933(2)
Jean Baudrillard
1935(11)
From The Precession of Simulacra
1936(10)
Jurgen Habermas
1946(9)
Modernity versus Postmodernity
1947(8)
Fredric Jameson
1955(11)
Postmodernism and Consumer Society
1956(10)
Donna Haraway
1966(25)
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
1967(24)
Linda Hutcheon
1991(17)
Theorizing the Postmodern: Toward a Poetics
1992(16)
Bell Hooks
2008(6)
Postmodern Blackness
2009(5)
Cornel West
2014(5)
Postmodernism and Black America
2014(5)
Alternative Contents2019(16)
Index2035
DAVID H. RICHTER (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is professor of English at Queens College and professor of English and comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Richter publishes in the fields of critical and narrative theory, biblical interpretation, and eighteenth-century literature. His most recent critical books are The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel (1996) and Ideology and Form in Eighteenth-Century Literature (1999). Richter is currently at work on two critical books: a cultural history of identity theft and an analysis of difficulty in biblical narrative.


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