Assignment

Foucault, Michel. "What Is an Author?" In The Critical Tradition, pp. 904-14

Barthes, Roland. "The Death of the Author." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 874-77

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Gadamer, Hans-Georg. "The Elevation of the Historicality of Understanding to the Status of
Hermeneutic Principle." InThe Critical Tradition, pp. 721-37

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Iser, Wolfgang. "The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach." In The Critical
Tradition, pp. 1002-14

Assignment
Wimsatt, William K. and Monroe Beardsley. "The Intentional Fallacy." In The Critical
Tradition, pp. 811-18

Assignment
Richards, Ivor A. and Monroe Beardsley. "Principles of Literary Criticism." In The Critical
Tradition, pp. 764-73
Empson, William. Seven Types of Ambiguity. New York: New Directions Publishing
Corporation, 1966, pp. 16-19
Brooks, Cleanth. "Irony as a Principle of Structure." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 799-806

Assignment
Eikhenbaum, Boris. "The Theory of the 'Formal Method.'" In Russian Formalist Criticism:
Four Essays. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965, pp. 99-141
Brooks, Cleanth. "Irony as a Principle of Structure." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 799-806

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Levi-Strauss, Claude. "The Structural Study of Myth." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 860-68
Suggested: Barthes, Roland. "The Structuralist Activity." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 77584

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Jakobson, Roman. "Linguistics and Poetics." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 871-74
Jakobson, Roman. "Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances."
In Studies on Child Language and Aphasia. The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1971, pp. 67-73

Assignment
Derrida, Jacques. "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" and
"Diffrance." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 915-25 and pp. 932-39

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De Man, Paul. "Semiology and Rhetoric." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 882-92

Assignment
Brooks, Peter. "Freud's Masterplot" and "The Dream-Work." In The Critical Tradition, pp.
500-08 and pp. 882-92

Assignment
Lacan, Jacques. "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious." In The Critical Tradition,
pp. 1129-48

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Eliot, T. S. "Tradition and the Individual Talent." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 537-41
Bloom, Harold. "A Meditation upon Priority." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 1156-60

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Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. "Introduction: Rhizome." In A Thousand Plateaus:
Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987
iek, Slavoj. "Courtly Love." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 1181-97

Assignment
Jauss, Hans Robert. "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory." In The Critical
Tradition, pp. 981-88
Bakhtin, Mikhail. "Heteroglossia in the Novel." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 588-93

Assignment
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." In The
Critical Tradition, pp. 1233-48
Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno. "The Culture Industry." In The Critical Tradition,
pp. 1255-62

Assignment
Jameson, Fredric. "The Political Unconscious." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 1291-1306

Assignment
Greenblatt, Stephen. "The Power of Forms." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 1443-45
McGann, Jerome J. "Keats and Historical Method." In The Beauty of Inflections: Literary
Investigations in Historical Method and Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988

Assignment
Woolf, Virginia. "Austen-Bront-Eliot" and "The Androgynous Vision." In The Critical
Tradition, pp. 602-10
Kolodny, Annette. "Dancing through the Minefield." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 1550-62

Assignment
Gates, Jr., Henry Louis. "Writing, 'Race,' and the Difference It Makes." In The Critical
Tradition, pp. 1891-1902
Morrison, Toni. "Playing in the Dark." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 1791-1800

Assignment
Said, Edward. "Introduction to Orientalism." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 1801-13
Bhabha, Homi K. "Signs Taken for Wonders." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 1875-99

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Foucault, Michel. "The History of Sexuality." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 1627-36
Butler, Judith. "Imitation and Gender Insubordination." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 170718

Assignment
Fish, Stanley. "How to Recognize a Poem When You See One." In The Critical Tradition,
pp. 1023-30
Guillory, John. "Cultural Capital." In The Critical Tradition, pp. 1472-83

Assignment
Knapp, Steven and Walter Benn Michaels. "Against Theory." In Against Theory: Literary
Studies and the New Pragmatism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press Journals, 1985