1.What is Literary Theory?
2.Humanist Literary Theory
Plato
Aristotle
Horace
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Francis Bacon
Joseph Addison
Edmund Burke
Samuel Johnson
Sir Joshua Reynolds
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Keats
Edgar Allan Poe
Matthew Arnold
3.Structuralism
Ferdinand de Saussure
Claude Levi-Strauss and The Structural Study of Myth
Interlude: Humanism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism
4.Deconstruction
Binary Opposition
The Role of the Center
Bricolage
5.Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Jacques Lacan
Interlude: Self to Subject
6.Feminism
Pre-poststructuralist Feminist Literary Theory
Poststructuralist Feminist Literary Theory
Helene Cixous and The Laugh of the Medusa
Luce Irigaray and This Sex Which Is Not One
7.Queer Theory
Flexible Sexuality?
Gay/Lesbian Studies
Interlude: History to Historicism
Humanist History
New Historicism
8.Ideology and Discourse
Marxist Theory: a Few Basics
Louis Althusser and Ideology
Mikhail Bakhtin and Discourse in the Novel
Michel Foucault: Discourse, Power/Knowledge,and the Author Function
9.Race and Postcolonialism
Colonialism and English
Henry Louis Gates, Jr and The Signifying Monkey
Postcolonialism and Orientalism
Homi Bhaba and The Location of Culture
Gloria Anzaldua and Borderlands/La Frontera
10.Postmodernism
Modernity
Jean Baudrillard
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Coda: What Now?
Index