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1 L 2008 AGI-Information Management Consultants May be used for personal purporses only or by libraries associated to dandelon.com network. Modern Criticism and Theory A Reader Third Edition Edited by David Lodge and Nigel Wood PEARSON Longman Harlow, England London New York Boston San Francisco Toronto Sydney Tokyo Singapore Hong Kong Seoul Taipei New Delhi Cape Town Madrid Mexico City Amsterdam Munich Paris Milan

2 Contents Contents arranged historically Contents arranged thematically Acknowledgements Foreword v viii xiii xvii Introduction 1 CONTENTS ARRANGED HISTORICALLY 1 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 31 Preface, and The premisses of the materialist method, from The German Ideology 33 2 Ferdinand de Saussure 42 The object of study 43 3 Sigmund Freud 51 The premisses and technique of interpretation, and Manifest and latent elements, from Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis 53 4 Walter Benjamin 70 The task of the translator 72 5 Virginia Woolf 81 Chapter Two of A Room of One's Own 83 6 Simone de Beauvoir 93 Myth and reality, and Woman's situation and character, from The Second Sex 95 7 Frantz Fanon 125 The negro and language, from Black Skin, White Masks Roman Jakobson 140 Linguistics and poetics 141 The metaphoric and metonymic poles Bertolt Brecht 169 Study of the first scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus Jacques Lacan 184 The insistence of the letter in the unconscious 186

3 vi I Contents 11 Jacques Derrida 210 Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences Tzvetan Todorov 225 The typology of detective fiction Mikhail Bakhtin 233 From the prehistory of novelistic discourse E.D. Hirsch, Jr. 264 In defense of the author, from Validity of Interpretation Michel Foucault 280 What is an author? Wolfgang Iser 294 The reading process: a phenomenological approach Roland Barthes 311 The death of the author 313 Textual analysis: Poe's 'Valdemar' Raymond Williams 337 Country and city, and A problem of perspective, from The Country and the City Julia Kristeva 348 The ethics of linguistics Helene Cixous 358 Sorties Edward Said 366 Crisis [in orientalism] Stanley Fish 382 Interpreting the Variorum J. Hillis Miller 401 The critic as host Jean-Franc.ois Lyotard 410 What is postmodernism? Jean Baudrillard 421 Simulacra and simulations Paul de Man 431 The resistance to theory Geoffrey Hartman 447 The interpreter's Freud Umberto Eco 460 Casablanca: Cult movies and intertextual collage 462

4 Contents Vii 29 Michael Riffaterre 471 Transposing presuppositions on the semiotics of literary translation Patrocinio P. Schweickart 484 Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 506 The beast in the closet Luce Irigaray 531 The bodily encounter with the mother Fredric Jameson 541 Postmodernism and consumer society Stephen Greenblatt 555 The circulation of social energy Jerome McGann 572 The textual condition Stuart Hall 581 New ethnicities Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 592 Questions of multiculturalism, and The post-colonial critic Judith Butler 607 Critically queer, from Bodies That Matter Malcolm Bowie 626 Freud and the European unconscious, from Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory Jeffrey Weeks 641 The sphere of the intimate and the values of everyday life, from Invented Moralities Lawrence Buell 665 Place, from The Environmental Imagination Slavoj Zizek 692 Fantasy as a political category: a Lacanian approach Meyda Yegenoglu 706 The battle of the veil: woman between orientalism and nationalism, from Colonial Fantasies David Scott Kastan 729 From codex to computer; or, presence of mind, from Shakespeare and the Book Alexander Stille 751 Writing and the creation of the past, from The Future of the Past 752

5 fvliii Contents 46 Valentine Cunningham 771 Touching reading, from Reading After Theory Jacqueline Rose 790 Daddy Terry Eagleton 821 The rise and fall of theory, from After Theory 824 Index 835 CONTENTS ARRANGED THEMATICALLY Language, adaptation and translation 2 Ferdinand de Saussure 42 The object of study 43 4 Walter Benjamin 70 The task of the translator 72 8 Roman Jakobson 140 Linguistics and poetics 141 The metaphoric and metonymic poles Bertolt Brecht 169 Study of the first scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus Tzvetan Todorov 225 The typology of detective fiction Mikhail Bakhtin 233 From the prehistory of novelistic discourse Roland Barthes 311 The death of the author 313 Textual analysis: Poe's 'Valdemar' Julia Kristeva 348 The ethics of linguistics* UmbertoEco 460 Casablanca: Cult movies and intertextual collage Michael Riffaterre 471 Transposing presuppositions on the semiotics of literary translation Slavoj Zizek 692 Fantasy as a political category: a Lacanian approach 695 The postmodern 10 Jacques Lacan 184 The insistence of the letter in the unconscious 186

6 Contents 11 Jacques Derrida 210 Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences J. Hillis Miller 401 The critic as host Jean-Francois Lyotard 410 What is postmodernism? Jean Baudrillard 421 Simulacra and simulations Paul de Man 431 The resistance to theory Geoffrey Hartman 447 The interpreter's Freud Fredric Jameson 541 Postmodernism and consumer society Slavoj Zizek 692 Fantasy as a political society: a Lacanian approach Alexander Stille 751 Writing and the creation of the past, from The Future of the Past 752 The subject and questions of agency 3 Sigmund Freud 51 The premisses and technique of interpretation 53 Manifest and latent elements Jacques Lacan 184 The insistence of the letter in the unconscious Helene Cixous 358 Sorties* Geoffrey Hartman 447 The interpreter's Freud Luce Irigaray 531 The bodily encounter with the mother Malcolm Bowie 626 Freud and the European unconscious Slavoj Zizek 692 Fantasy as a political category: a Lacanian approach Jacqueline Rose 790 'Daddy' 792 ix

7 r, X i Contents History and place 1 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 31 Preface 33 The premisses of the materialist method 34 7 Frantz Fanon 125 The negro and language Raymond Williams 337 Country and city 339 A problem of perspective Edward Said 366 Crisis (in orientalism) Stephen Greenblatt 555 The circulation of social energy Stuart Hall 581 New ethnicities Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ' 592 Questions of multiculturalism 594 The post-colonial critic Lawrence Buell 665 Place Meyda Yegenoglu 706 Gender The battle of the veil: woman between orientalism and nationalism Virginia Woolf 81 A Room of One's Own 83 6 Simone de Beauvoir 93 Myth and reality 95 Woman's situation and character Helene Cixous 358 Sorties Patrocinio P. Schweickart 484 Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick 506 The beast in the closet Luce Irigaray 531 The bodily encounter with the mother 532

8 f 1 Contents xi j 38 Judith Butler 607 Critically queer Jeffrey Weeks 641 The sphere of the intimate and the values of everyday life Meyda Yegenoglu 706 The battle of the veil: woman between orientalism and nationalism Jacqueline Rose 790 Daddy 792 The reader, the author and the text 8 Roman Jakobson 140 Linguistics and Poetics Tzvetan Todorov ; 225 The typology of detective fiction Mikhail Bakhtin 233 From the Prehistory of novelistic discourse E.D. Hirsch, Jr. 264 In defense of the author Michel Foucault 280 What is an author? Wolfgang Iser 294 The reading process: a phenomenological approach Roland Barthes 311 The death of the author 313 Textual analysis: Poe's 'Valdemar' Stanley Fish 382 Interpreting the Variorum Patrocinio P. Schweickart 484 Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick 506 The beast in the closet Jerome McGann 572 The textual condition David Scott Kastan. 729 From codex to computer; or, presence of mind 731 Won- and Post-Theory 14 E.D. Hirsch, Jnr. 264 In defence of the author 265

9 jxlij Contents 44 David Scott Kastan 729 From codex to computer, or, presence of mind Alexander Stille 751 Writing and the creation of the past Valentine Cunningham 771 Touching reading Terry Eagleton 821 The rise and fall of theory 824

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