CL 390:

Twentieth-Century (Western) Theory:

An Introduction


Reserve Books are marked with *; = excerpts available at copy place

Adams anthologies on reserve (1st ed + 2nd ed supplement); "supplement packages" for both editions available at copy place, as noted on syllabus.


*Hazard Adams, ed. Critical Theory Since Plato. San Diego: Harcourt-Brace, 1971 [ISBN 0-15-516142-3] [Call # BH 39 A23 UGL]

-or Revised Edition, NY: Harcourt-Brace, 1992 [ISBN 0-15-516143-1]

*Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle, eds. Critical Theory Since 1965. Tallahassee: U. Presses of Florida/Florida State UP, 1986 [ISBN 0-8130-0844-1] [Call # PN 94 C75 1986]

*Seyla Benhabib & Drucilla Cornell, Feminism as Critique: On the Politics of Gender. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1987 [ISBN 0-8166-1636-1] [Call # HQ 1206 F45 1987]

*Judith Butler. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London: Routledge, 1990 [ISBN 0-415-90043-3] [Call # HQ 1154 B88 1990 UGL]

Catherine Clément. The Weary Sons of Freud. London: Verso, 1987 [ISBN 0-86091-888-2] [Call # RC 506 C5413 1987]

Jonathan Culler. On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1982 [ISBN 0-8014-9201-7] [Call # PN 98 D43 C8]

Jonathan Culler. The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1981 [ISBN 0-8014-9224-6] [Call # PN 98 S46 C85]

Jonathan Culler. Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1975 [ISBN 0-8014-9155-x] [Call # PN 98 S7 C8]

Teresa de Lauretis. Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1984 [ISBN 0-253-20316-3] [Call # PN 1995.9 W6 D4 1984]

*Umberto Eco. The Limits of Interpretation. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990 [ISBN 0-253-31852-1] [Call # PN 98 S 46 E26 1990]

Victor Erlich. Russian Formalism: History-Doctrine. New Haven: Yale UP, 1965 [ISBN 0-300-02635-8] [Call # 891.809 SL 16 V. 4]

*Nancy Fraser & Sandra Lee Bartky, eds. Revaluing French Feminism: Critical Essays on Difference, Agency, and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992 [ISBN 0-253-32436-x] [Call # HQ 1190 R48 1992]

F.W. Galan. Historic Structures: The Prague School Project, 1928-1946. Austin, TX: U. of Texas, 1985 [ISBN 0-292-73042-x] [Call # PN 98 S7 G34 1985]

*David Theo Goldberg, ed. Anatomy of Racism. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1990 [ISBN 0-8166-1804-6] [Call # HT 1521 A54 1990]

Elizabeth Grosz. Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction. NY: Routledge, 1990 [ISBN 0-415-01400-x]; N/A in library

Elizabeth Grosz. Sexual Subversion: Three French Feminists. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1989 [ISBN 0-04-351072-8] [Call # HQ 1233 G767 1989]

*Ranajit Guha & Gayatri Spivak, eds. Selected Subaltern Studies. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988[ISBN 0-19-505289-7] [Call # DS 463 S426 1988]

Richard Harland. Superstructuralism: The Philosophy of Structuralism and Post- Structuralism. NY: Routledge, 1987 {ISBN 0-415-03952-5] [Call # B 841.4 H37 1987]

*Donna Haraway. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Moden Science. NY: Routledge, 1989 [ISBN 0-415-90294-0] [Call # QL 737 P9 H245 1989]

Terence Hawkes. Structuralism and Semiotics. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1977[ISBN 0-520-03422-8] [Call # P 146 H3 1977b]

Robert C. Holub. Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction. NY: Methuen, 1984 [ISBN 0-416-33590-x] [Call # PT 80 H64 1984]

*bell hooks. Feminist Theory: from margin to center. Boston: South End Press, 1984 [ISBN 0-89608-221-0] [Call # HQ 1426 H675 1984]

*Luce Irigaray. This Sex Which is not One. Trans. Catherine Porter. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1985 [1977] [ISBN 0-8014-9331-5] [Call # HQ 1206 I713 1985]

*Julia Kristeva. The Kristeva Reader. Ed. Toril Moi. NY: Columbia UP, 1986 [ISBN 0-231-06325-3] [Call # P 99 K687 1986M]

John Lechte. Julia Kristeva. NY: Routledge, 1990 [ISBN 0-415-00834-4]; N/A in library

Anika Lemaire. Jacques Lacan. NY: Routledge, 1991 [1971] [ISBN 0-415-07844-x] [Call # BF 455 R4813 1979]

J.G. Merquior. From Prague to Paris: A Critique of Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Thought. London: Verso, 1986 [ISBN 0-86091-860-2] [Call # B841.4 M476 1986]

Toril Moi. Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory. NY: Routledge, 1985 [ISBN 0-415-02974-0][Call # HQ 1617 F75 1987]

Laura Mulvey. Visual and Other Pleasures. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989 [ISBN 0-253-20494-1] [Call # PN 1995.9 W6 M84 1988B]

Jean-Luc Nancy & Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992 [ISBN 0-7914-0962-7]; N/A in library

*Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, eds. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988 [ISBN 0-252-01401-4] [Call # HX 523 M3766 1988]

*Linda Nochlin. Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays. NY: Harper & Row, 1988 [ISBN 0-06-430183-4] [Call # N 72 F45 N64 1988 Fine Arts]

Christopher Norris. Deconstruction: Theory & Practice. NY: Methuen, 1982 [ISBN 0-416-32070-8] [Call # PN 98 D43 1982]

Michael Ryan. Marxism and Deconstruction: A Critical Articulation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1982 [ISBN 0-8018-3248-9] [Call # HX 73 R9 1982]

Robert Scholes. Protocols of Reading. New Haven: Yale UP, 1989 [ISBN 0-300-05062-3] [Call # Z 1003 S3947 1989]

Robert Scholes. Semiotics and Interpretation. New Haven: Yale UP, 1982 [ISBN 0-300-03093-2] [Call # PN 98 S 46 S3]

Robert Scholes. Structuralism in Literature: An Introduction. New Haven: Yale UP, 1974 [ISBN 0-300-01850-9] [Call # PN 98 S7 S3]

Daniel R. Schwarz, ed. James Joyce: The Dead. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1994 [ISBN 0-312-08073-5 pbk] [photocopy on reserve; not available as separate copy]

*Kaja Silverman. The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988 [ISBN 0-253-20474-7] [Call # PN 1995.9 W6 S57 1988]

Kaja Silverman, The Subject of Semiotics. New York/Oxford: Oxford UP, 1983 [ISBN 0-19-503178-4 pbk.] [Call # P99 S52]

*Paul Smith. Discerning the Subject. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota, 1988 [ISBN 0-8166-1639-6] [Call # PN 94 S 65 1988]

*Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. NY: Routledge, 1988 [ISBN 0-415-90002-6] [Call # HM 101 S773 1987]

*Tzvetan Todorov. Genres in Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990 [ISBN 0-521-34999-0] [Call # PN 45 T57813 1990]

*Tzvetan Todorov. Theories of the Symbol. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1982 [ISBN 0-8014-1192-0] [Call # P 99 T613 1982]

Gregory L. Ulmer. Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1985 [ISBN 0-8018-3257-8] [Call # P 106 U46 1985]

Samuel Weber. Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan's Dislocation of Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991 [ISBN 0-521-37770-6] [Call # BF 173 W41213 1991]

René Wellek. A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950, Vol. 5: English Criticism, 1900- 1950. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986 [ISBN 0-300-03378-8] [Call # PN 86 W4 1977]

René Wellek. A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950, Vol. 6: American Criticism, 1900- 1950. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986 [ISBN 0-300-03486-5] [Call # PN 86 W4 1977]

René Wellek. A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950, Vol. 7: German, Russian, and Eastern European Criticism, 1900-1950. New Haven: Yale UP, 1991 [ISBN 0-300-05039-9] [Call # PN 86 W4 1977]

Margaret Whitford. Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine. NY: Routledge, 1991 [ISBN 0-415-05969-0] [Call # HQ 1190 W48 1991]

Raymond Williams. Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1977 [ISBN 0-19-876061-2] [Call # PN 98 C6 W54]


Reference Room Treasures

Irena Makaryk, ed. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms. Toronto, 1993 [PN 81 E43 1993]

Michael Groder and Martin Kreiswirth, eds. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994 [PN 81 J64 1994]