3rd edition. Lodge and Wood's classic introduction to the leading thinkers in literary criticism, the core of every English degree Contents arranged historically v Contents arranged thematically viii Acknowledgements xiii Foreword xvii Introduction 1(30) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 31(11) Preface, and The premisses of the materialist method, from The German Ideology 33(9) Ferdinand de Saussure 42(9) The object of study 43(8) Sigmund Freud 51(19) The premisses and technique of interpretation, and Manifest and latent elements, from Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis 53(17) Walter Benjamin 70(11) The task of the translator 72(9) Virginia Woolf 81(12) Chapter Two of A Room of One's Own 83(10) Simone de Beauvoir 93(32) Myth and reality, and Woman's situation and character, from The Second Sex 95(30) Frantz Fanon 125(15) The negro and language, from Black Skin, White Masks 127(13) Roman Jakobson 140(29) Linguistics and poetics 141(24) The metaphoric and metonymic poles 165(4) Bertolt Brecht 169(15) Study of the first scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus 172(12) Jacques Lacan 184(26) The insistence of the letter in the unconscious 186(24) Jacques Derrida 210(15) Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences 211(14) Tzvetan Todorov 225(8) The typology of detective fiction 226(7) Mikhail Bakhtin 233(31) From the prehistory of novelistic discourse 235(29) E.D. Hirsch, Jr. 264(16) In defense of the author, from Validity of Interpretation 265(15) Michel Foucault 280(14) What is an author? 281(13) Wolfgang Iser 294(17) The reading process: a phenomenological approach 295(16) Roland Barthes 311(26) The death of the author 313(4) Textual analysis: Poe's `Valdemar' 317(20) Raymond Williams 337(11) Country and city, and A problem of perspective, from The Country and the City 339(9) Julia Kristeva 348(10) The ethics of linguistics 349(9) Helene Cixous 358(8) Sorties 359(7) Edward Said 366(16) Crisis [in orientalism] 368(14) Stanley Fish 382(19) Interpreting the Variorum 383(18) J. Hillis Miller 401(9) The critic as host 402(8) Jean-Francois Lyotard 410(11) What is postmodernism? 412(9) Jean Baudrillard 421(10) Simulacra and simulations 423(8) Paul de Man 431(16) The resistance to theory 432(15) Geoffrey Hartman 447(13) The interpreter's Freud 448(12) Umberto Eco 460(11) Casablanca: Cult movies and intertextual collage 462(9) Michael Riffaterre 471(13) Transposing presuppositions on the semiotics of literary translation 473(11) Patrocinio P. Schweickart 484(22) Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading 485(21) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 506(25) The beast in the closet 508(23) Luce Irigaray 531(10) The bodily encounter with the mother 532(9) Frederic Jameson 541(14) Postmodernism and consumer society 542(13) Stephen Greenblatt 555(17) The circulation of social energy 557(15) Jerome McGann 572(9) The textual condition 574(7) Stuart Hall 581(11) New ethnicities 583(9) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 592(15) Questions of multiculturalism, and The post-colonial critic 594(13) Judith Butler 607(19) Critically queer, from Bodies That Matter 609(17) Malcolm Bowie 626(15) Freud and the European unconscious, from Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory 628(13) Jeffrey Weeks 641(24) The sphere of the intimate and the values of everyday life, from Invented Moralities 643(22) Lawrence Buell 665(27) Place, from The Environmental Imagination 667(25) Slavoj Zizek 692(14) Fantasy as a political category: a Lacanian approach 695(11) Meyda Yegenoglu 706(23) The battle of the veil: woman between orientalism and nationalism, from Colonial Fantasies 707(22) David Scott Kastan 729(22) From codex to computer; or, presence of mind, from Shakespeare and the Book 731(20) Alexander Stille 751(20) Writing and the creation of the past, from The Future of the Past 752(19) Valentine Cunningham 771(19) Touching reading, from Reading After Theory 772(18) Jacqueline Rose 790(31) Daddy 792(29) Terry Eagleton 821(14) The rise and fall of theory, from After Theory 824(11) Index 835