Critical Theory Reading List - University of Kentucky

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Critical Theory Reading List

Aim for inclusive coverage from all categories.

Theory Before "Theory"

1. Plato 2. Aristotle 3. Horace 4. Longinus 5. Samuel Johnson 6. David Hume 7. Immanuel Kant 8. William Wordsworth 9. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 10. G. W. F. Hegel 11. Matthew Arnold 12. Friedrich Nietzsche

13. T.S. Eliot 14. Mikhail Bakhtin 15. Virginia Woolf 16. Kenneth Burke 17. Jean-Paul Sartre 18. Simone de Beauvoir 19. Northrop Frye 20. Erich Auerbach 21. Hans-Georg Gadamer

Formalisms

22. Victor Schlovsky 23. Cleanth Brooks

Republic, Book X Poetics Ars Poetica On the Sublime Preface to Shakespeare "Of the Standard of Taste" from Critique of Judgment Preface to Lyrical Ballads from Biographia Literaria Introduction to The Philosophy of Art "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" from The Birth of Tragedy, "On Truth and Lies in an Extramoral Sense" "Tradition and the Individual Talent" from Discourse in the Novel Shakespeare's Sister from A Room of One's Own "Literature as Equipment for Living" "Why Write?" "Myths: Of Women in Five Authors" (Second Sex) "Archetypes of Literature" (Anatomy of Criticism) "Odysseus' Scar" (Mimesis) The Elevation of the Historicality of Understanding to the Status of the Hermeneutical Principle

"Art as Technique" "Irony as a Principle of Structure"

Structuralism, Semiotics, and Deconstruction

24. Ferdinand de Saussure 25. Claude L?vi-Strauss 26. Roman Jakobson 27. Vladimir Propp 28. G?rard Genette 29. Jacques Derrida 30. Roland Barthes 31. Kaja Silverman 32. Michel Foucault 33. Paul de Man 34. Cynthia Chase 35. Barbara Johnson

"Nature of the Linguistic Sign" "The Structural Study of Myth" from Style in Language Morphology of the Folktale "Frontiers of Narrative" Of Grammatology (including Spivak introduction) S/Z from The Subject of Semiotics "What is an Author?" "Semiology and Rhetoric" from Decomposing Figures from The Critical Difference

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36. Jonathan Culler 37. Geoffrey Hartman

On Deconstruction, 1-3 Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy

Intentionality and Speech Act Theory

38. Wimsatt and Beardsley

"The Intentional Fallacy"

39. E.D. Hirsch

from Validity in Interpretation

40. John Searle

from Speech Acts

41. J. L. Austin

How To Do Things With Words

42. Stanely Cavell

from Must We Mean What We Say?

43. Jacques Derrida

Limited Inc.

44. Knapp and Michaels

"Against Theory"

45. Stanley Fish

"There's No Such Thing as Free Speech"

46. Judith Butler

"Sovereign Performatives"

Reader-Response Criticism

47. Wolfgang Iser

48. Stanley Fish 49. Jane Tompkins

"The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach" "Is There a Text in this Class?" from Sensational Designs

Psychoanalytic Theory

50. Sigmund Freud

51. Paul Ricoeur 52. Harold Bloom

53. Jacques Lacan 54. Jane Gallop 55. Deleuze and Guattari 56. Jacqueline Rose 57. Neil Hertz

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Civilization and its Discontents Freud and Philosophy: An Essay in Interpretation Anxiety of Influence, introduction ("A Meditation upon Priority Ecrits from Reading Lacan from Anti-Oedipus from The State of Fantasy The End of the Line: Essays on Psychoanalysis and the Sublime

Marxist Criticism

58. Karl Marx 59. Walter Benjamin

60. George Luk?cs 61. Theodor Adorno

62. Antonio Gramsci 63. Louis Althusser

64. Raymond Williams

65. E.P. Thompson

Capital (Part I of Vol. I), The German Ideology "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" "The Ideology of Modernism" "Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment," Minima Moralia The Prison Notebooks "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," excepts from Reading Capital "Pastoral and Counter-pastoral" from The Country and the City; Culture and Society, chapter 1 "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism"

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66. Perry Anderson 67. Terry Eagleton 68. Fredric Jameson 69. Pierre Bourdieu 70. J?rgen Habermas 71. Martin Jay 72. Laclau and Mouffe

73.Hardt and Negri

In the Tracks of Historical Materialism, chapter 1 Criticism and Ideology The Political Unconscious, chapter 1 from Outline of a Theory of Practice from The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity from Marxism and Totality from Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

"The Political Constitution of the Present" (Empire)

New Historicism and Cultural Studies

74. Pierre Bourdieu 75. Clifford Geertz 76. Edward W. Said 77. Stephen Greenblatt 78. D.A. Miller 79. Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard 80. Fredric Jameson

81. Constance Penley

82. Stuart Hall 83. Michel de Certeau 84. Stallybrass and White 85. Dick Hebdige 86. Andrew Ross

"The Market of Symbolic Goods," "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" Introduction to Orientalism "Invisible Bullets" The Novel and the Police, Chapter 1 Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge "Postmodernism; Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" New Left Review 146 (1984) "Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Study of Popular Culture" "Encoding, Decoding" "Walking in the City" from The Politics and Poetics of Transgression "From Culture to Hegemony" Introduction and Chapter One of No Respect

Feminist Literary Criticism / Gender Studies and Queer Theory

87. Gilbert and Gubar

88. Laura Mulvey 89. H?l?ne Cixous 90. Michel Foucault 91. Julia Kristeva 92. Luce Irigaray 93. Teresa de Lauretis 94. Gayle Rubin 95. David Halperin 96. Judith Butler 97. Ann Laura Stoler 98. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

99. Leo Bersani

100.

Michael Warner

"Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship" "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" "The Laugh of the Medusa" The History of Sexuality, Vol. I from Powers of Horror "This Sex Which Is Not One" Technologies of Gender "Thinking Sex" "One Hundred Years of Homosexuality" Gender Trouble from The Education of Desire Epistemology of the Closet, "Introduction: Axiomatic" "Is the Rectum a Grave?" Homos from The Trouble with Normal

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Multiculturalism and the Canon Wars

101.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"Writing, 'Race,' and the Difference It

Makes"

102.

John Guillory

Cultural Capital, chapter 1

103.

Barbara Christian

"The Race for Theory"

104.

Homi K. Bhabha "The Location of Culture"

105.

Cornel West

"The New Cultural Politics of Difference"

106.

Chandra Mohanty Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism

Postcolonial Theory

107.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

108.

George Lamming

109.

Chinua Achebe

110.

Gayatri Spivak

111.

Paul Gilroy

112.

Homi Bhabha

113.

Arjun Appuradai

114.

Mary Louise Pratt

115.

Simon Gikandi

116.

Anne McClintock

Decolonizing the Mind "The Occasion for Speaking" from The Pleasures of Exile "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism," "Can the Subaltern Speak?" The Black Atlantic, Introduction "Signs Taken for Wonders," in Location of Culture "Playing with Modernity The Decolonization of Indian Cricket," from Modernity at Large from Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Tranculturation Maps of Englishness, Introduction from Imperial Leather

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