Literary Theory

Julie Rivkin is Professor of English at Connecticut College, USA, where she teaches on American literature, contemporary women writers, and literary theory.  She is the author of False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James’s Fiction (1996). With Michael Ryan, she is the  author of Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction(Wiley Blackwell, 3rd edition, 2016).Michael Ryan is Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University, USA. He is the author of several books, two novels, and co-editor of the journal Politics and Culture. With Julie Rivkin, he is the author of Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction (Wiley Blackwell, 3rd edition, 2016).

• Preface ix A Short History of Theory xiPart One Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Poetics1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Formalisms 32 Viktor Shklovsky, Art as Technique 83 Cleanth Brooks, The Formalist Critics 154 Cleanth Brooks, Keats’ Sylvan Historian: History Without the Footnotes 215 Monroe Beardsley and W. K. Wimsatt, The Intentional Fallacy 296 Sean O’ Sullivan, Broken on Purpose: Poetry, Serial Television, and the Season 427 Herman Rapaport, Tools for Reading Poetry 558 Theory in Practice: Michael Holahan, “Look, Her Lips”: Softness of Voice, Construction of Character in King Lear 809 Theory in Practice: C. K. Doreski, Romantic Rhetorics (from Elizabeth Bishop: The Restraints of Language) 105Part Two Structuralism, Linguistics, Narratology1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, The Implied Order: Structuralism 1312 Jonathan Culler, The Linguistic Foundation 1343 Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics 1374 Claude Lévi]Strauss, The Structural Study of Myth 1785 Roland Barthes, Mythologies 1966 Mikhail Bakhtin, Discourse in the Novel 2057 Michel Foucault, What Is an Author? 2178 David Herman, Scripts, Sequences, and Stories: Elements of a Postclassical Narratology 2309 Michael Newman, From Beats to Arcs: Towards a Poetics of Television Narrative 24810 Theory in Practice: Bridget Gellert Lyons, The Subplot as Simplification in King Lear 27011 Theory in Practice: Susan Lohafer, The Stories of “Passion”: An Empirical Study 283Part Three Phenomenology, Reception, Ethics1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Situations of Knowledge/Relations with Others 2972 Immanuel Kant, Transcendental Aesthetic 2993 Georges Poulet, The Phenomenology of Reading 3054 Kathleen McCormick, Teaching, Studying, and Theorizing the Production and Reception of Literary Texts 3185 Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction 3316 Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and the Face 3487 Kuisma Korhonen, Levinas and Literary Interpretation: Facing Baudelaire’s “Eyes of the Poor” 3668 Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity: The Narrative Imagination 3829 Theory in Practice: Kent Lehnhof, Relation and Responsibility: A Levinasian Reading of King Lear 40210 Theory in Practice: Naomi Morgenstern, The Baby or the Violin: Ethics and Femininity in the Fiction of Alice Munro 422Part Four Post-Structuralism1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan,The Class of 1968 – Post]Structuralism par lui]même 4452 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power 4663 Gilles Deleuze, What Is Becoming? 4714 Jacques Derrida, Différance 4745 Jacques Derrida, That Dangerous Supplement 4966 Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author 5187 Roland Barthes, From Work to Text 5228 Barbara Johnson, Writing 5289 Theory in Practice: John Joughin, Lear’s After]Life 53610 Theory in Practice: Miriam Marty Clark, Allegories of Reading in Alice Munro’s “Carried Away” 555Part Five Psychoanalysis and Psychology1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Strangers to Ourselves: Psychoanalysis 5672 Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams 5753 Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny 5924 Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego 6155 Jacques Lacan, The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience 6186 D.W. Winnicott, Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena 6247 Lisa Hinrichsen, Trauma Studies and the Literature of the US South 6368 Theory in Practice: Jeffrey Stern, King Lear: The Transference of the Kingdom 6509 Theory in Practice: Lee Zimmerman, The Weirdest Scale on Earth: Elizabeth Bishop and Containment 66010 Theory in Practice: Ildiko de Papp Carrington, The Uncontrollable: The Underground Stream 677Part Six Marxism, Critical Theory, History1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Starting with Zero 7112 Karl Marx, The Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts of 1844 7173 Karl Marx, The German Ideology 7304 Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History 7365 Pierre Bourdieu, Structures and the Habitus 7456 Louis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses 7687 Michel Foucault, Right of Death and Power over Life 7788 Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer 7929 Louis Montrose, New Historicisms 80910 Theory in Practice: Rosalie Colie, Reason and Need: King Lear and the Crisis of the Aristocracy 83211 Theory in Practice: Isla Duncan, Social Class in Alice Munro’s “Sunday Afternoon” and “Hired Girl” 85812 Theory in Practice: Betsy Erkkila, Elizabeth Bishop, Modernism, and the Left 869Part Seven Gender Studies and Queer Theory1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Feminist Paradigms/Gender Effects 8932 Gayle Rubin, The Traffic in Women 9013 Adrienne Rich, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience 9254 Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa 9405 Judith Butler, Imitation and Gender Insubordination 9556 Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan, Global Identities: Theorizing Transnational Studies of Sexuality 9637 Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts 9768 Jasbir Puar, “I Would Rather Be a Cyborg Than a Goddess”: Becoming Intersectional in Assemblage Theory 10009 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet 101410 Queer Nation, Queers, Read This 102411 Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, Sex in Public 103412 Myra Hird, Naturally Queer 105013 José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: “Introduction” and “Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism” 105414 Theory in Practice: Michael Ryan, Queer Lear: A Gender Reading of King Lear 106615 Theory in Practice: Betheny Hicok, Elizabeth Bishop’s “Queer Birds”: Vassar, Con Spirito, and the Romance of Female Community 1079Part Eight Ethnic, Indigenous, Post-Colonial, and Transnational Studies1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, English Without Shadows: Literature on a World Scale 10992 Edward Said, Orientalism 11073 Chinua Achebe, An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness 11374 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism 11475 Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark 11636 Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place 11747 Arjun Appadurai, Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy 11808 Stuart Hall, Cultural Identity and Diaspora 11919 Lawrence Venuti, Translation, Empiricism, Ethics 120210 Theory in Practice: Jaecheol Kim, National Messianism and English Choreography in King Lear 121011 Theory in Practice: Sylvia Henneberg, Elizabeth Bishop’s “Brazil, January 1, 1502” and Max Jacob’s “Etablissement d’une communauté au Brésil”: A Study of Transformative Interpretation and Influence 122712 Theory in Practice: Katie Trumpener, Annals of Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro 1239Part Nine Cognition, Emotion, Evolution, Science1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, In the Body of the Text 12552 F. Elizabeth Hart, Embodied Literature: A Cognitive]Poststructuralist Approach to Genre 12653 Suzanne Keane, Narrative Empathy 12844 Sara Ahmed, Affective Economies 13125 Joseph Carroll, Human Nature and Literary Meaning 13296 Patrick Colm Hogan, Literary Brains: Neuroscience, Criticism, and Theory 13607 Ted Underwood, Digital Humanities: Theorizing Research Practices 13738 Franco Moretti, Planet Hollywood 13809 Theory in Practice: Donald C. Freeman, According to My Bond: King Lear and Re]Cognition 138910 Theory in Practice: Carrie Dawson, Skinned: Taxidermy and Pedophilia in Munro’s “Vandals” 1405Part Ten Animals, Humans, Places, Things1 Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Matters Pertinent to a Theory of Human Existence 14192 Nigel Thrift, Non]Representational Theory: Life, But Not as We Know It 14233 John Urry, Complexity 14524 Bruno Latour, On Actor Network Theory: A Few Clarifications 14585 Jennifer McDonell, The Animal Turn, Literary Studies, and the Academy 14716 Tobin Siebers, The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification 14867 Pippa Marland, Ecocriticism 15078 Michael Parrish Lee, Eating Things: Food, Animals, and Other Life Forms in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books 15299 Theory in Practice: Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Richard Marggraf Turley, and Howard Thomas, The Autumn King: Remembering the Land in King Lear 154710 Theory in Practice: Kim Fortuny, Elizabeth Bishop’s “Pink Dog” 1567Glossary of Terms 1581