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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 127 8 Roman Jakobson 140 Linguistics and poetics 141 The metaphoric and metonymic poles 165 9 Bertolt Brecht 169 Study of the first scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus 172 10 Jacques Lacan 184 The insistence of the letter in the unconscious 186
vi I Contents 11 Jacques Derrida 210 Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences 211 12 Tzvetan Todorov 225 The typology of detective fiction 226 13 Mikhail Bakhtin 233 From the prehistory of novelistic discourse 235 14 E.D. Hirsch, Jr. 264 In defense of the author, from Validity of Interpretation 265 15 Michel Foucault 280 What is an author? 281 16 Wolfgang Iser 294 The reading process: a phenomenological approach 295 17 Roland Barthes 311 The death of the author 313 Textual analysis: Poe's 'Valdemar' 317 18 Raymond Williams 337 Country and city, and A problem of perspective, from The Country and the City 339 19 Julia Kristeva 348 The ethics of linguistics 349 20 Helene Cixous 358 Sorties 359 21 Edward Said 366 Crisis [in orientalism] 368 22 Stanley Fish 382 Interpreting the Variorum 383 23 J. Hillis Miller 401 The critic as host 402 24 Jean-Franc.ois Lyotard 410 What is postmodernism? 412 25 Jean Baudrillard 421 Simulacra and simulations 423 26 Paul de Man 431 The resistance to theory 432 27 Geoffrey Hartman 447 The interpreter's Freud 448 28 Umberto Eco 460 Casablanca: Cult movies and intertextual collage 462
Contents Vii 29 Michael Riffaterre 471 Transposing presuppositions on the semiotics of literary translation 473 30 Patrocinio P. Schweickart 484 Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading 485 31 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 506 The beast in the closet 508 32 Luce Irigaray 531 The bodily encounter with the mother 532 33 Fredric Jameson 541 Postmodernism and consumer society 542 34 Stephen Greenblatt 555 The circulation of social energy 557 35 Jerome McGann 572 The textual condition 574 36 Stuart Hall 581 New ethnicities 583 37 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 592 Questions of multiculturalism, and The post-colonial critic 594 38 Judith Butler 607 Critically queer, from Bodies That Matter 609 39 Malcolm Bowie 626 Freud and the European unconscious, from Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory 628 40 Jeffrey Weeks 641 The sphere of the intimate and the values of everyday life, from Invented Moralities 643 41 Lawrence Buell 665 Place, from The Environmental Imagination 667 42 Slavoj Zizek 692 Fantasy as a political category: a Lacanian approach 695 43 Meyda Yegenoglu 706 The battle of the veil: woman between orientalism and nationalism, from Colonial Fantasies 707 44 David Scott Kastan 729 From codex to computer; or, presence of mind, from Shakespeare and the Book 731 45 Alexander Stille 751 Writing and the creation of the past, from The Future of the Past 752
fvliii Contents 46 Valentine Cunningham 771 Touching reading, from Reading After Theory 772 47 Jacqueline Rose 790 Daddy 792 48 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 165 9 Bertolt Brecht 169 Study of the first scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus 172 12 Tzvetan Todorov 225 The typology of detective fiction 226 13 Mikhail Bakhtin 233 From the prehistory of novelistic discourse 235 17 Roland Barthes 311 The death of the author 313 Textual analysis: Poe's 'Valdemar' 317 19 Julia Kristeva 348 The ethics of linguistics* 349 28 UmbertoEco 460 Casablanca: Cult movies and intertextual collage 462 29 Michael Riffaterre 471 Transposing presuppositions on the semiotics of literary translation 473 42 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
Contents 11 Jacques Derrida 210 Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences 211 23 J. Hillis Miller 401 The critic as host 402 24 Jean-Francois Lyotard 410 What is postmodernism? 412 25 Jean Baudrillard 421 Simulacra and simulations 423 26 Paul de Man 431 The resistance to theory 432 27 Geoffrey Hartman 447 The interpreter's Freud 448 33 Fredric Jameson 541 Postmodernism and consumer society 542 42 Slavoj Zizek 692 Fantasy as a political society: a Lacanian approach 695 45 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 62 10 Jacques Lacan 184 The insistence of the letter in the unconscious 186 20 Helene Cixous 358 Sorties* 359 27 Geoffrey Hartman 447 The interpreter's Freud 448 32 Luce Irigaray 531 The bodily encounter with the mother 532 39 Malcolm Bowie 626 Freud and the European unconscious 628 42 Slavoj Zizek 692 Fantasy as a political category: a Lacanian approach 695 47 Jacqueline Rose 790 'Daddy' 792 ix
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 127 18 Raymond Williams 337 Country and city 339 A problem of perspective 344 21 Edward Said 366 Crisis (in orientalism) 368 34 Stephen Greenblatt 555 The circulation of social energy 557 36 Stuart Hall 581 New ethnicities 583 37 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ' 592 Questions of multiculturalism 594 The post-colonial critic 600 41 Lawrence Buell 665 Place 667 43 Meyda Yegenoglu 706 Gender The battle of the veil: woman between orientalism and nationalism 707 5 Virginia Woolf 81 A Room of One's Own 83 6 Simone de Beauvoir 93 Myth and reality 95 Woman's situation and character 102 20 Helene Cixous 358 Sorties 359 30 Patrocinio P. Schweickart 484 Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading 485 31 Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick 506 The beast in the closet 508 32 Luce Irigaray 531 The bodily encounter with the mother 532
f 1 Contents xi j 38 Judith Butler 607 Critically queer 609 40 Jeffrey Weeks 641 The sphere of the intimate and the values of everyday life 643 43 Meyda Yegenoglu 706 The battle of the veil: woman between orientalism and nationalism 707 47 Jacqueline Rose 790 Daddy 792 The reader, the author and the text 8 Roman Jakobson 140 Linguistics and Poetics 141 12 Tzvetan Todorov ; 225 The typology of detective fiction 226 13 Mikhail Bakhtin 233 From the Prehistory of novelistic discourse 235 14 E.D. Hirsch, Jr. 264 In defense of the author 265 15 Michel Foucault 280 What is an author? 281 16 Wolfgang Iser 294 The reading process: a phenomenological approach 295 17 Roland Barthes 311 The death of the author 313 Textual analysis: Poe's 'Valdemar' 317 22 Stanley Fish 382 Interpreting the Variorum 383 30 Patrocinio P. Schweickart 484 Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading 485 31 Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick 506 The beast in the closet 508 35 Jerome McGann 572 The textual condition 574 44 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
jxlij Contents 44 David Scott Kastan 729 From codex to computer, or, presence of mind 731 45 Alexander Stille 751 Writing and the creation of the past 752 46 Valentine Cunningham 771 Touching reading 772 48 Terry Eagleton 821 The rise and fall of theory 824