Classical

Plato: Symposium; Ion; Republic; Phaedrus

Aristotle: Rhetoric; Poetics

Horace: Epistle to the Pisos (The Art of Poetry)

Longinus: On the Sublime

Lucretius: On the Nature of Things

Quintilian: Institutio Oratorio

Renaissance/Restoration/Eighteenth Century

Dryden: Essay on Dramatic Poesy; Preface to Fables

Pope's "Essay on Criticism" & Sidney's "Defense of Poetry"

Burke: A Philosophical Inquiry into Our Ideas of the Origin of the Sublime and the Beautiful

Lessing: Laocoön

Vico: The New Science

Johnson: "Preface to Shakespeare"; "Preface to the Dictionary"; Rambler essays (4, 8, 14, 196); Idler essays (3, 14, 23, 84, 103); Lives of Milton, Savage.

Kant: Critique of Aesthetic Judgement

Schiller: Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man; Naive and Sentimental Poetry

Rousseau: On the Origin of Language

Hume: Four Dissertations

M. Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women

A. Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Hurd: Letters on Chivalry and Romance

Nineteenth Century

W. Wordsworth: Prefaces 1800 and 1815

S. T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria

G. F. W. Hegel: Phenomenology of Mind

P. B. Shelley: "A Defense of Poetry"

T. Carlyle: Sartor Resartus; Past & Present

R. W. Emerson: Essays, First and Second Series

S. Kierkegaard: Either/Or; Fear and Trembling

J. Ruskin: Modern Painters, vol. I; Stones of Venice; Sesame and Lilies

K. Marx: Manifesto of the Communist Party (with Engels); The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte; Capital (vol. I); On Literature and Art (with Engels)

C. Baudelaire: "The Painter of Modern Life"

J. S. Mill: Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Dissertations on Poetry

M. Arnold: Culture and Anarchy; Essays in Criticism

W. Pater: Studies in the History of the Renaissance

F. Nietzsche: Beyond Good & Evil; Genealogy of Morals; "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life"

H. Bergson: Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory

A. Manzoni: On the Historical Novel

O. Wilde: The Artist as Critic

Twentieth Century

W. James: Pragmatism

S. Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents; Totem and Taboo; The Interpretation of Dreams; "The Uncanny"

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk

V. Woolf: A Room of One's Own

G. Lukács: The Historical Novel

W. Benjamin: Illuminations

L. Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations

M. Heidegger: "The Origin of the Work of Art"

E. Husserl: Logical Investigations

E. Auerbach: Mimesis

M. Bakhtin: The Dialogic Imagination

C. Levi-Strauss: Structural Anthropology

G. G. Gadamer: Truth and Method

Wimsatt and Beardsley: "The Intentional Fallacy" & "The Affective Fallacy"

K. Burke: Attitudes Toward History

A. Fletcher: Allegory

N. Frye: Anatomy of Criticism

J. Habermas: Theory and Practice; Philosophical Discourse of Modernity

H. White: Metahistory

H. R. Jauss: Towards an Aesthetics of Reception

F. Saussure: Course in General Linguistics

R. Jakobson: "Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbance"

R. Barthes: S/Z; The Pleasure of the Text

J. Derrida: Of Grammatology; Disseminations; Margins of Philosophy

M. Foucault: The Order of Things; Discipline and Punish

R. Williams: The Country and the City

P. de Man: Blindness and Insight; Allegories of Reading

S. Greenblatt: Renaissance Self-Fashioning; "Invisible Bullets"

H. Foster, ed.: The Anti-Aesthetic

PART II

Feminist Criticism

G. Anzaldua: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

H. Carby: Reconstructing Womanhood

N. Chodorow: The Reproduction of Mothering

J. Gallop: The Daughter's Seduction

Gilbert and Gubar: The Madwoman in the Attic

D. Haraway: "A Cyborg Manifesto"

b. hooks: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

M. Poovey: Uneven Developments

E. Showalter: The New Feminist Criticism

Postcolonial Theory

A. Ahmed: In Theory: Classes, Nations, Cultures

B. Anderson: Imagined Communities

A. Appiah: In My Father's House

H. Bhabha: Nation and Narration; The Location of Culture

F. Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks; The Wretched of the Earth

P. Gilroy: The Black Atlantic; There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack

A. McClintock: Imperial Leather

T. T. Min-ha: Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

E. Said: Orientalism; Culture and Imperialism

G. Spivak: A Critique of Postcolonial Reason

African-American Criticism

H. Baker: Blues, Ideology, and African-American Literature

H. L. Gates, ed.: "Race," Writing, and Difference

H. L. Gates: The Signifying Monkey

P. Gilroy: The Black Atlantic

W. Lubiano, ed.: The House That Race Built

D. McDowell: The Changing Same

T. Morrison: Playing in the Dark

H. Spillers: "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book"

C. Tate: Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race

M. Wallace: Invisibility Blues

Gender and Sexuality

J. Butler: Gender Trouble; Bodies that Matter

D. Crimp, ed.: AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism

M. Foucault: The History of Sexuality, vol. I

E. Goffman: Stigma: Notes on the Management of a Spoiled Identity

D. A. Miller: The Novel and the Police

A. Rich: "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence"

G. Rubin: "The Traffic in Women" & "Thinking Sex"

E. K. Sedgwick: Between Men; Epistemology of the Closet; Tendencies

S. Stryker, ed.: GLQ: The Transgender Issue

M. Warner, ed.: Fear of a Queer Planet

Psychoanalytic Criticism

Abel, Christian, and Moglen, eds.: Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism

H. Cixous: Hélène Cixous Reader

Deleuze and Guattari: Anti-Oedipus; A Thousand Plateaus

S. Felman: Literature and Psychoanalysis

E. Grosz: Volatile Bodies

L. Irigaray: This Sex Which Is Not One; Speculum of the Other Woman

J. Kristeva: Desire in Language; Black Sun

J. Lacan: Ecrits; "The Insistence of the Letter"; The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

J. Laplanche: Life and Death in Psychoanalysis

S. Zizek: The Sublime Object of Ideology

Film Theory

J.-L. Baudry: "Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematic Apparatus" & "The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema"

A. Bazin: What is Cinema? (2 vols.)

W. Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

T. de Lauretis: Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema

M. Diawara: "Theorizing the Black Spectator"

M. A. Doane: "Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator"

S. Eisenstein: Film Form

C. MacCabe: "Realism and the Cinema: Notes on Some Brechtian Theses"

L. Mulvey: "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"

G. Studlar: "Masochism and the Perverse Pleasures of Cinema"

Marxist Criticism

Aesthetics and Politics

T. Adorno: Aesthetic Theory (selections)

Adorno and Horkheimer: "The Culture Industry"

L. Althusser: "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"

A. Gramsci: Selections from Prison Notebooks

T. Eagleton: Ideology

F. Jameson: The Political Unconscious; Marxism and Form

Laclau and Mouffe: Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

G. Lukács: The Historical Novel; History and Class Consciousness

P. Macherey: A Theory of Literary Production

Cultural Studies

P. Bourdieu: Distinction

M. de Certeau: The Practice of Everyday Life

S. Hall: "Notes on Deconstructing 'the Popular'" & "Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms"

D. Hebdige: Subculture: The Meaning of Style

R. Hoggart: The Uses of Literacy

K. Mercer: Welcome to the Jungle

J. Radway: Reading the Romance G. Turner: British Cultural Studies

R. Williams: Culture and Society

P. Willis: Learning to Labor

Textual Criticism

F. Bowers: "Textual Criticism"

D. C. Greetham: Theories of the Text

W. W. Greg: "The Rationale of Copy-Text"

J. Grigely: Textualterity

B. Harkness: "Bibliography and the Novelistic Fallacy"

P. Maas: Textual Criticism, trans. Barbara Flower

J. McGann: A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism; "The Rationale of Hypertext"; The Textual Condition; "The Monks and the Giants"

D. F. McKenzie: Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts

L. Patterson: "The Logic of Textual Criticism and the Way of Genius"

P. Shillingsburg: Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age

G. T. Tanselle: "The Editorial Problem of Final Authorial Intention"; A Rationale of Textual Criticism; "The Varieties of Scholarly Editing"