A practical reader in contemporary literary theory / edited by Peter Brooker and Peter Widdowson.

Includes bibliographical references.

A Note on the Text -- Introduction: Theory and Criticism at the Present Time -- 1. William Shakespeare: Hamlet -- 1.1. T. S. Eliot: 'Hamlet' -- 1.2. Jacques Lacan: 'Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet' -- 1.3. Elaine Showalter: 'Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism' -- 1.4. Jacqueline Rose: 'Hamlet - the "Mona Lisa" of Literature' -- 1.5. Lisa Jardine: '"No Offence i' th' World": Hamlet and Unlawful Marriage' -- 2. William Wordsworth: 'Ode - Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood' -- 2.1. Cleanth Brooks: 'Wordsworth and the Paradox of the Imagination' -- 2.2. Geoffrey H. Hartman: '"Timely Utterance" Once More' -- 2.3. Marjorie Levinson: 'The Intimations Ode: A Timely Utterance' -- 3. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre -- 3.1. Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own -- 3.2. The Marxist-Feminist Literature Collective: 'Women's Writing: Jane Eyre' -- 3.3. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar: 'A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress' -- 3.4. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism' -- 4. George Eliot: Middlemarch -- 4.1. F. R. Leavis: The Great Tradition -- 4.2. Raymond Williams: The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence -- 4.3. Terry Eagleton: Criticism and Ideology -- 4.4. J. Hillis Miller: 'Optic and Semiotic in Middlemarch' -- 4.5. Colin MacCabe: James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word -- 5. Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dadan Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest -- 5.1. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Epistemology of the Closet -- 5.2. Jonathan Dollimore: Sexual Dissidence -- 5.3. Joseph Bristow: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' -- 5.4. Alan Sinfield: 'Picturing Dorian Gray' -- 5.5. Terry Eagleton: 'Oscar' -- 6. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness -- 6.1. F. R. Leavis: The Great Tradition -- 6.2. Tzvetan Todorov: 'Heart of Darkness' -- 6.3. Chinua Achebe: 'An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness' -- 6.4. Edward Said: 'Two Visions in Heart of Darkness' -- 7. James Joyce: Ulysses -- 7.1. Helene Cixous: 'Joyce: The (R)use of Writing' -- 7.2. Raymond Williams: The Country and the City -- 7.3. Wolfgang Iser: 'Doing Things in Style: An Interpretation of "The Oxen of the Sun" in James Joyce's Ulysses' -- 7.4. Fredric Jameson: 'Ulysses in History' -- 7.5. Jacques Derrida: 'Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce' -- 8. Bertolt Brecht: Theory and Late Plays -- 8.1. Walter Benjamin: Understanding Brecht -- 8.2. Georg Lukacs: The Meaning of Contemporary Realism -- 8.3. Theodor Adorno: 'Commitment' -- 8.4. Roland Barthes: 'The Tasks of Brechtian Criticism' and 'Literature and Signification' -- 8.5. Louis Althusser: 'The "Piccolo Teatro": Bertolazzi and Brecht. Notes on a Materialist Theatre' -- 8.6. Herbert Marcuse: The Aesthetic Dimension -- 8.7. John Fuegi: The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht -- 9. Toni Morrison: Beloved -- 9.1. Mae G. Henderson: 'Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-membering the Body as Historical Text' -- 9.2. Paul Gilroy: '"Not a Story to Pass On": Living Memory and the Slave Sublime' -- 9.3. Homi K. Bhabha: The Location of Culture -- 9.4. Lynne Pearce: 'Gendering the Chronotope: Beloved' -- 9.5. Peter Nicholls: 'The Belated Postmodern: History, Phantoms and Toni Morrison' -- 10. Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses -- 10.1. Linda Hutcheon: 'Re-presenting the Past' -- 10.2. Aijaz Ahmad: 'Salman Rushdie's Shame: Postmodem Migrancy and the Representation of Women' -- 10.3. Gayatri Chakvravorty Spivak: 'Reading The Satanic Verses' -- Acknowledgements.

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