Stephan Flores
Some collected resources and references for critical theory:
Review of Initial Concepts from Critical Terms for Literary Study
Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory: The Basics (Routledge, 2001)—this
text's historical survey begins with practical and new criticism, formalism
and early structuralism, French structuralism, the political "reading"
modes of the 1970s-80s, the poststructuralist revolution following Derrida,
deconstruction, and postmodernism, then Foucault, Lacan, and French feminism,
new historicism and cultural materialism, postcolonial criticism and theory,
and sexuality, literature, and culture.
Bennett, Andrew and Nicholas Royle. Introduction to Literature, Criticism
and Theory, third edition. (Longman, 2004)—this text is comprised of
thirty-two short chapters on such terms and topics as author, text and world,
the uncanny, narrative, voice, figures and tropes, laughter, the tragic, history,
ghosts, sexual difference, God, ideology, desire, creative writing, moving pictures,
queer, racial difference, the performative, pleasure, war, the end.
Barry, Peter. See Barry's interesting essay on textuality and theory
Belsey, Catherine. Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2002)
Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 1997)
Sarup, Madan. An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism, second edition (U.Georgia P, 1993), esp. chapters on Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault--to be placed on library reserve, listed under this course.
Selden, Raman, Peter Widdowson, Peter Brooker. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. Fifth edition. (Pearson/Longman, 2005)
Literary Theory: An Anthology. Eds. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. (Blackwell, 1998)
Critical Theory Since Plato, third edition. Eds. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle. [includes Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play" along with other excerpts from his work, Lacan's "The Mirror Stage," excerpt from Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," excerpt from Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet, Greenblatt's "Resonance and Wonder," Butler's "Imitation and Gender Insubordination," and Laclau's "Subject of Politics, Politics of the Subject." On library reserve.
Davis, Robert Con. Contemporary Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies (Longman, four editions 1989, 1991, 1994, 1998)--early edition on library reserve.
Montrose, Louis. "New Historicisms." Redrawing
the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies.
Eds. Stephen Greenblatt and Giles Gunn. New York: Modern Language Association,
1992. On library reserve.
Tompkins, Jane. "A
Short Course in Post-Structuralism." College English 50.7 (1988): 733-47.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-0994%28198811%2950%3A7%3C733%3AASCIP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D
Derrida, Jacques. "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences." Writing and Difference. Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1978. 279-93. On library reserve.
Derrida, Jacques. “Différance”
[excerpt from "Différance"]: http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/diff.html
Derrida, Jacques. "Signature Event Context"
Baudrillard, Jean. "Simulacra and Simulations"
tp://www.charlesbaxter.com/published_works/gryphon_main.htm
Ellman, Maud. "Introduction." Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism. Longman, 1994. 1-35.
France, Alan W. "Dialectics
of Self: Structure and Agency as the Subject of English."
College English, 63.2 ( 2000):145-165.
Wolfreys, Julian, Ruth Robbins and Kenneth Womack. Key Concepts in Literary Theory. Edinburgh UP, 2002.
Wolfreys, Julian. Introducing Criticism at the 21st Century. Edinburgh UP, 2002.
Wolfreys, Julian, ed. Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh UP, 1999.
Wolfreys, Julian. Readings: Acts of Close Reading in Literary Theory. Edinburgh UP, 2000.
What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism
Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”
Mary Klages on Humanism and Literary Theory
Mary Klages on Claude Lévi-Strauss
Mary Klages on Poststructuralism/Derrida
Mary Klages on Homi Bhaba/Race and Postcolonialism
Mary Klages on Postmodernism (via Sarup)
Mary Klages on Postmodernism II (via Lyotard/Baudrillard)
Klages, Mary. Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum Press, 2007)
Dr. Barry Laga's Intro to Theory Website
Professor Lye's theory course/summary explanations
Professor Lye's Advice on Analyzing Literature
Professor Lye's useful review-essay on Contemporary Literary Theory
Professor Wyrick's contemporary theory course
Jack Lynch's site/theory sources
Dino Felluga's Introduction to Critical Theory