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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797) '582; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ,586 From Chapter II. The Prevailing Opinion of a' S'~jcual Character Discussed 586 GERMAINE NECKER DE STAt;:L (1766-1817) 594 From Essay on Fictions ·597 On Literature Considered in Its Relationship to SoCial Institutions On Women Writers (2.4) 604 . . Leitch, V.B., 2010. The Norton anthology of theory and criticism, New York: W.W. Norton and Company.

HAROLD BLOOM (b. 1930) 1794 The Anxiety of Influence 179,( Introduction. A Meditation upon Priority, and a Synopsis 1797 Interchapter. A Manifesto for Antithetical Criticism 1804 PIERRE BOURDIEU (b. 1930) 1806 Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste Introduction 1809 . ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960) 1144 Characteristics of Negro Expression 1146 What White Publishers Won't Print 1159 WALTER BENJAMIN (1892-1940) 1163 The Work of Art in the Age ,of Mechanical Reproduction MIKHAIL M. BAKHTIN (1895-1975) From Discourse in the 'Novel' 1190 GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO (1313-1375) 253 Oepealogy of the Gentile Gods 255 Book 14 255 'V. Other Cavillers at the Poets and Their Imputations 255 vB. The D~finitionof,Poetry, Its Origin, and Function 258 XII. The Obscurity of Poetry Is Not Just Cause For Condemning , 'Ii: 260 CHRISTINE DE PIZAN (ca. 1365-ca. 1429) The aook of the City of Ladies 265 , From Part One 265 From Part TWd 269 EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797) 536 A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Out Ideas of the Sublime' and Beautiful 539 Introduction on Taste 539 Part I. Section VlI. Of the Sublirrte 549' Part III. Section XXVII. The Sublirrte and Beautiful Compared 550 GOlTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING (1729'-1781) From Laocoon 554 FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER (1759-1805) On the Aesthetic Education of Man 573 Second Letter 573 Sixth Letter 574 Ninth Letter 579T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965) 1088 Tradition and the Individual Talent The Metaphysical Poets 1098 JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974) Criticism, Inc. 1108 MARTIN HEIDEGGER (1889-1976) Language 1121 r----'----,--,-----,-Preface The most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of its kind, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism offers one or more selections from 148 figures, representing major developments from ancient to recent times, from Gorgias and Plato to bell hooks, Judith Butler, and Stuart Moulthrop. In contrast to comparable anthologies, it provides generous selections from previously underrepresented fields, such as rhetoric, medieval theory, and,criticism by women and people of color, along with a' full complement of works from canonical figures such as Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx,-Cleanth Brooks, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Michel Foucault; From'canonical authors, it includes classic texts as wen as selections' newly revalued. The standard works of Westein theory and criticism from the ancient Greeks to the present are represented, as are texts from "forgotten" figures such as Moses Maimonides, FriedrichSchleiermacher, and Frantz Fanon. The anthology is particularly rich in modern and contemporary theory,-providing materials from 93 writers and covering all the main schools and movements; ranging from Marxism; psychoanalysis, and formalism to poststructuralism; cultural studies, race and ethnicity studies, and many more. We have'alsodrawn from vital minor currents, including body studies, media theory; theory of national literature and institutional analysis and history. This anthology consolidates the many gains won through the expansion 'of theory in recent, decades. In view of current changes, it is worth pausing for a moment to reconsider the configuration and meaning of "theory" itself. Today the term encoihpasses significant works not only of poetics, theory of criticism, and aesthetics as of old, hut also of rhetoric, media and discourse 'theory; semiotics; race and ethnicity theory, gender theory, and visual and:popular cult:tfre theory. But theory in its newer sense' means still more' than, this broadly expanded body of topics and texts. It entails a mode, of questioning and analysis that goes beyond the earlier New Critical research into the -"literariness" of literature. Because of the effects of poststructuralism, cultural studies, and the new social movements, especially the 'women's and civil rights movements, theory now entails skepticism toward' systems; institutions, and norms; a readiness to take critical stands and to engage in resistance; an interest in blind spots, contradictions, and distortions (often discovered to be ineradicable); and a habit, of linking local 'and 'personal practices to the larger economic, political,' historical, and ethical forces of culture. This theory-or "cultural critique,", as it is more deSCriptively termed..:!-is less concerned with elaborating conditions: of'possibility, as is Kantian critique, than with investigating and criticizing values, practices; categories, and representations embedded in cultural texts and surrounding institutions. To an earlier generation, such theory looks like advocacy rather xxxiii SUSAN BORDO (b. 1947) 2360 Unbeanible Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body 2362 Chapter 5. The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity 2362 HOM I K. BHABHA (b. 1949) The Commitment to Theory WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) 645 Preface to Lyrical Ballads, with pastoral lind Other Poems (1802) SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (i 772-1834) From The Statesman's Manual 672 Biographia Literaria 674 Part I 674 From Chapter 1 674 From Chapter 4 675 From Chapter 13 676 Part II 677 Chapter 14 677 THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK (1785-1866) The Four Ages of Poetry 684

PAULA GUNN ALLEN (b. 1939) 2106 Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to .h;lterpreting a Keres Indian Tale . ;2108 JANE TOMPKINS (b. 1940) 2126 Me and My Shadow 2129 JACQUES DERRIDA (1930-2004) 1815 Of Grammatology 1822 Exergue 1822 The Exorbitant. Question of Method 1824 Dissemination 1830 Plato's Pharmacy 1830 I I. Pharmacia 183 1 2. The Father of Logos 1839 4. The Pharmakon 1846 5. The Pharmakeus 1863 II Feminism & Queer Theory (Kristeva, Cixous; phallologocentrism; anti-Oedipal; "compulsory heterosexuality"; politics of difference) John McGowan is the Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A leading critic of postmodernism and social theories relating to literature, he is the author of Postmodernism and its Critics (Cornell UP), Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction (U of Minnesota P), Democracy’s Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Cornell UP), and American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time (UNC Press), and editor (with Craig Calhoun) of Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics (U of Minnesota P). Psychoanalysis (Freud; unconscious, dreams; Bloom's "anxiety of influence"; Lacan's "ecriture feminine")Leitch, Vincent B. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2010.