Literary Criticism

Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1953.

Adams, Hazard, ed. Critical Theory Since Plato. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.

Althusser, Louis, and Étienne Balibar. Reading Capital. Translated by Ben Brewster. London: Verso, 1979.

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, eds. The Post-colonial Studies Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

Baker, Houston A., Jr. Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Selected and translated by Annette Lavers. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.

——. S/Z: An Essay. Translated by Richard Miller. Preface by Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 1974.

Brooks, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren. "The Reading of Modern Poetry." In American Poetry and Prose, edited by Norman Foerster. 4th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.

Burke, Kenneth. A Grammar of Motives. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945.

——. The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action. 3rd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

——. A Rhetoric of Motives. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1950. Culler, Jonathan. Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1975.

——. On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982.

De Man, Paul. Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979.

——. Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism. 2nd rev. ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.

Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology. Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

Drake, William, ed. The First Wave: Women Poets in America 1915–1945. New York: Macmillan, 1987.

Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.

Empson, William. Seven Types of Ambiguity. 2nd ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1947.

——. Some Versions of Pastoral. New York: New Directions, 1974.

Feldstein, Richard, and Judith Roof, eds. Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Fletcher, Angus. Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1964.

Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge. Translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. New York: Pantheon, 1972.

——. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Vintage, 1973.

Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1957.

Gasché, Rodolphe. The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro- American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Goldberg, David Theo, ed. Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader. Oxford, U.K., and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994.

Grossberg, Lawrence, Cary Nelson, and Paula A. Treichler, eds. Cultural Studies. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Guha, Ranajit, ed. A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986–1995. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Hegel, G. W. F. The Phenomenology of Mind. Translated by J. B. Baillie. 2nd ed. London: Allen and Unwin; New York: Macmillan, 1931.

Hirsch, Marianne, and Evelyn Fox Keller. Conflicts in Feminism. New York: Routledge, 1990.

I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, by Twelve Southerners. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1930.

Jakobson, Roman, and Morris Halle. Fundamentals of Language. 2nd rev. ed. The Hague: Mouton, 1971.

Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981.

——. Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991.

Kester-Shelton, Pamela, ed. Feminist Writers. Detroit: St. James Press, 1996.

Lacan, Jacques. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-analysis. Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Norton, 1978.

Lemon, Lee T., and Marion J. Reis, trans. Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965.

Macksey, Richard, and Eugenio Donato, eds. The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man: The Structuralist Controversy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971.

Napier, Winston, ed. African-American Literary Theory: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Nicholson, Linda J., ed. Feminism/Postmodernism. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Ohmann, Richard. English in America: A Radical View of the Profession. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Readings, Bill. The University in Ruins. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Richards, I. A. Speculative Instruments. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955.

Said, Edward W. Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1979.

Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. Edited by Charles Bally and Albert Reidlinger. Translated by Wade Baskin. New York: Philosophical Library, 1959.

Spillers, Hortense J. Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Wall, Cheryl A. Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

Warren, Robert Penn. "The Briar Patch." In his I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, by Twelve Southerners. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1930.

Wellek, René, and Austin Warren. Theory of Literature. 3rd ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956.

Wheelwright, Philip. The Burning Fountain: A Study in the Language of Symbolism. Rev. ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.

Wimsatt, W. K., Jr. The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1954.