Modern literary theory : a reader / edited by Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-383) and index.

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Sect. 1. Saussure -- 1. From Course in General Linguistics (1915) -- Sect. 2. Russian Formalism -- 2. From 'Art as Technique' (1917) -- Sect. 3. Structuralism -- 3. 'Analysis and Interpretation of the Realist Text' (1980) -- 4. 'To Write: An Intransitive Verb?' (1966) -- Sect. 4. Marxism -- 5. From 'Ideology and the State' (1969) -- 6. From 'Literature as an Ideological Form' (1978) -- 7. From Criticism and Ideology (1976) -- Sect. 5. Reader Theory -- 8. 'The Reading Process' (1974) -- 9. 'Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory' (1967) -- 10. 'Phenomenology and Theory of Literature: An Interview with Paul Ricoeur' (1981) -- 11. From The Anxiety of Influence (1973) -- Sect. 6. Feminism -- 12. 'Towards a Feminist Poetics' (1979) -- 13. From 'Women Writing: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Aurora Leigh' (1978) -- 14. 'The Death of the Author' (1968) -- Sect. 1. The Subject -- 15. 'The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience' (1949) -- 16. 'A Question of Subjectivity - an Interview' (1986) -- 17. 'Sorties' (1975) -- 18. 'Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Wittig and Foucault' (1987) -- 19. From Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (1984) -- Sect. 2. Language and Textuality -- 20. 'Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences' (1966) -- 21. 'From Work to Text' (1971) -- 22. 'The Resistance to Theory' (1982) -- 23. 'Gender Theory and the Yale School' (1985) -- Sect. 3. History and Discourse -- 24. From 'Discourse in the Novel' (1934) -- 25. From 'The Order of Discourse' (1971) -- 26. 'The Text, the Poem, and the Problem of Historical Method' (1985) -- 27. 'Resonance and Wonder' (1990) -- Sect. 4. Postmodernism and Postcolonialism -- 28. 'Periodizing the 60s' (1984) -- 29. 'Stalemates?: Feminists, Postmodernists and Unfinished Issues in Modern Aesthetics' (1991) -- 30. 'Postmodern Blackness' (1991) -- 31. From Culture and Imperialism (1993) -- 32. 'Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse' (1983) -- Sect. 5. Looking Back on the States of Theory -- 33. 'Some Statements and Truisms about Neo-Logisms, Newisms, Postisms, Parasitisms, and other Small Seismisms' (1990) -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

"The third edition of this classic reader, like its successful predecessors, makes available in a single accessible volume examples of the writings of many key figures in the field together with seminal essays that have explored and extended the implications of critical theory. The new editionretains those essays and documents that can now be considered as part of the canon of modern literary theory and adds a wide selection of fresh material--New Historicist, Postmodernist, Postcolonialist, and retrospective accounts that reflect upon some of the critical issues now emerging in theretreat from earlier theoretical totalities."--Publisher description.

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