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Introduction: A Preliminary Guide to Literary Criticism and CulturalStudies. I. WHAT IS LITERARY STUDIES? Tradition and the IndividualTalent, T. S. Eliot. The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,Northrop Frye. Minority Discourse and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation,Cornel West. Introduction: The Humanist Myth, Gerald Gaff. Lessons ofHistory, Gauri Viswanathan. II. WHAT IS LITERARY THEORY? The Resistanceto Theory, Paul de Man. The Search for Grounds in Literary Study, J.Hillis Miller. Postmodern Blackness, Bell Hooks. Literary Theory and`Third World Literature': Some Contexts, Aijaz Ahmad. The Politics ofKnowledge, Edward Said. III. RHETORIC AND READER RESPONSE. Interpretingthe Variorum, Stanley Fish. Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theoryof Reading, Patrocinio Schweichkart. Apostrophe, Animation, andAbortion, Barbara Johnson. Rhizome and Resistance: Hypertext and Dreamsof New Culture, Stuart Mouthrop. IV. STRUCTURALISM AND SEMIOTICS.Selections from Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure.What is Criticism? Roland Barthes. Disneyland: A Degenerate Utopia,Louis Marin. Semiotics and Experience, Teresa de Lauretis. V.DECONSTRUCTION AND POSTSTRUCTURALISM. Convention and Meaning: Derridaand Austin, Jonathan Culler. The Principle of Reason: The University inthe Eyes of its Pupils, Jacques Derrida. What is an Author? MichelFoucault. Constructing the Subject: Deconstructing the Text, CatherineBelsey. VI. PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS. The Mirror Stage, JacquesLacan. Pschoanalysis and Education: Teaching Terminable toInterminable, Shoshana Felman. Two Ways to Avoid the Real of Desire,Slavoj Zizek. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Laura Mulvey. VII.HISTORICAL CRITICISM. Discourse in Life and Discourse in Art, MikhailBakhtin (V.N. Volosinov). Base and Superstructure in Marxist CulturalTheory, Raymond Williams. Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority andIts Subversion, Stephen Jay Greenblatt. The Occidental Alice, NancyArmstrong. VIII. FEMINISM AND GENDER STUDIES. Reading Like a Feminist,Diana Fuss. Pandora's Box: Subjectivity, Class and Sexuality inSocialist Feminist Criticism, Cora Kaplan. Homo-Narcissism; orHeterosexuality, Michael Warner. IX. CULTURAL STUDIES. From Culture toHegemony, Dick Hebdige. Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms, Stuart Hall.The Translations of Cultures, James Clifford. A Cyborg Manifesto:Science, Technology, Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,Donna Haraway.