Literary theories: a reader and guide/
edited by Julian Wolfreys
- Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
- xiv, 672 p.; 25 cm.
Originally published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1999
Introduction, Border crossings, or close encounters of the textual kind / Julian Wolfreys -- Introduction, Never standing still, or is Roland Barthes structuralism? / K.M. Newton -- From science to literature ; From S/Z / Roland Barthes -- Introduction, Will the real feminist theory please stand up? / Ruth Robbins -- Medusa's voice : male hysteria in The Bostonians / Claire Kahane -- Sylvia Townsend Warner and the counterplot of lesbian fiction / Terry Castle -- Myself and m/others : Colette, Wilde and Duchamp / Mary Lydon -- Introduction, Politics of literature / Moyra Haslett -- From Towards a Revolutionary Criticism / Terry Eagleton -- Marxism and literature / Raymond Williams -- Introduction, There is no such thing as reader-response theory / Martin McQuillan -- Describing poetic structures : two approaches to Baudelaire's 'Les Chats' / Michael Riffaterre -- Poetic text within the change of horizons of reading : the example of Beaudelaire's 'Spleen II' / Hans-Robert Jauss -- Imaginary / Wolfgang Iser -- Introduction, Screening the other / Jill Barker -- Difference / Stephen Heath -- Using Lacan : reading To the Lighthouse / James M. Mellard -- Introduction, What remains unread / Julian Wolfreys -- Letter to a Japanese friend / Jacques Derrida -- Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida and the 'Dislocation of Souls' / J. Hillis Miller -- On not reading : Derrida and Beckett / Nicholas Royle. Introduction, Criticism and conceit / Mark Currie -- Semiology and rhetoric / Paul de Man -- Scoring literature / Avital Ronell -- Introduction, Postmodernism? : not representing postmodernism / Leah Wain -- Answer to the question, what is the postmodern? / Jean-François Lyotard -- Simulacra and simulations / Jean Baudrillard -- Nostalgia for the present / Frederic Jameson -- Introduction, History, power and politics in the literary artifact / John Brannigan -- Marxism and the new historicism / Catherine Gallagher -- 'Shaping fantasies' : figurations of gender and power in Elizabethan culture / Louis Adrian Montrose -- Introduction, Difficulty of difference / Gail Ching-Liang Low -- Of mimicry and man : the ambivalence of colonial discourse / Homi K. Bhabha -- Loafers and story-tellers / Gail Ching-Liang Low -- Film as ethnography; or, translation between cultures in the postcolonial world / Rey Chow -- Introduction, Works on the Wild(e) side-- performing, transgressing, queering / Jane Goldman -- Queer and now / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Post/modern : on the gay sensibility, or the pervert's revenge on authenticity-- Wilde, Genet, Orton, and others / Jonathan Dollimore. Critically queer / Judith Butler -- Introduction, Theorising culture, reading ourselves / Kenneth Womack -- Cultural studies and reading / J. Hillis Miller -- Cities without maps / Iain Chambers -- Art as cultural production / Alan Sinfield.