A practical reader in contemporary literary theory /
edited by Peter Brooker and Peter Widdowson.
- ix, 498 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
A Note on the Text -- Introduction: Theory and Criticism at the Present Time -- William Shakespeare: Hamlet -- T. S. Eliot: 'Hamlet' -- Jacques Lacan: 'Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet' -- Elaine Showalter: 'Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism' -- Jacqueline Rose: 'Hamlet - the "Mona Lisa" of Literature' -- Lisa Jardine: '"No Offence i' th' World": Hamlet and Unlawful Marriage' -- William Wordsworth: 'Ode - Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood' -- Cleanth Brooks: 'Wordsworth and the Paradox of the Imagination' -- Geoffrey H. Hartman: '"Timely Utterance" Once More' -- Marjorie Levinson: 'The Intimations Ode: A Timely Utterance' -- Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre -- Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own -- The Marxist-Feminist Literature Collective: 'Women's Writing: Jane Eyre' -- Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar: 'A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress' -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism' -- George Eliot: Middlemarch -- F. R. Leavis: The Great Tradition -- Raymond Williams: The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence -- Terry Eagleton: Criticism and Ideology -- J. Hillis Miller: 'Optic and Semiotic in Middlemarch' -- Colin MacCabe: James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word -- Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dadan Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Epistemology of the Closet -- Jonathan Dollimore: Sexual Dissidence -- Joseph Bristow: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' -- Alan Sinfield: 'Picturing Dorian Gray' -- Terry Eagleton: 'Oscar' -- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness -- F. R. Leavis: The Great Tradition -- Tzvetan Todorov: 'Heart of Darkness' -- Chinua Achebe: 'An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness' -- Edward Said: 'Two Visions in Heart of Darkness' -- James Joyce: Ulysses -- Helene Cixous: 'Joyce: The (R)use of Writing' -- Raymond Williams: The Country and the City -- Wolfgang Iser: 'Doing Things in Style: An Interpretation of "The Oxen of the Sun" in James Joyce's Ulysses' -- Fredric Jameson: 'Ulysses in History' -- Jacques Derrida: 'Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce' -- Bertolt Brecht: Theory and Late Plays -- Walter Benjamin: Understanding Brecht -- Georg Lukacs: The Meaning of Contemporary Realism -- Theodor Adorno: 'Commitment' -- Roland Barthes: 'The Tasks of Brechtian Criticism' and 'Literature and Signification' -- Louis Althusser: 'The "Piccolo Teatro": Bertolazzi and Brecht. Notes on a Materialist Theatre' -- Herbert Marcuse: The Aesthetic Dimension -- John Fuegi: The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht -- Toni Morrison: Beloved -- Mae G. Henderson: 'Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-membering the Body as Historical Text' -- Paul Gilroy: '"Not a Story to Pass On": Living Memory and the Slave Sublime' -- Homi K. Bhabha: The Location of Culture -- Lynne Pearce: 'Gendering the Chronotope: Beloved' -- Peter Nicholls: 'The Belated Postmodern: History, Phantoms and Toni Morrison' -- Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses -- Linda Hutcheon: 'Re-presenting the Past' -- Aijaz Ahmad: 'Salman Rushdie's Shame: Postmodem Migrancy and the Representation of Women' -- Gayatri Chakvravorty Spivak: 'Reading The Satanic Verses' -- Acknowledgements. 1. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. 5.5. 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 7. 7.1. 7.2. 7.3. 7.4. 7.5. 8. 8.1. 8.2. 8.3. 8.4. 8.5. 8.6. 8.7. 9. 9.1. 9.2. 9.3. 9.4. 9.5. 10. 10.1. 10.2. 10.3.
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Criticism--History--20th century Literature, Modern--History and criticism