Literary Theory and Criticism

  • Gilbert and Gubar

    Assigned: Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. From The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, from Chapter 2: “Infection in the Sentence . . .”...

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  • Gates Jr., Henry Louis

    Assigned: Gates Jr., Henry Louis. “Talking Black: Critical Signs of the Times.” (2244-52). Also read the editors’ introduction (2242-44). “Talking Black: Critical Signs of the Times” (1988) 1. On 2245-47...

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  • Frye, Northrop

    Assigned: Frye, Northrop. “The Archetypes of Literature” (1250-62). Also read the editors’ introduction (1248-50). “The Archetypes of Literature” (1951) I 1. On 1250-51 (“Every organized body of knowledge…”), why, according...

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  • Freud, Sigmund

    Assigned: Freud, Sigmund. From The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapters V-VI (789-99); from “The ‘Uncanny’” (799-816); from “Fetishism” (816-20). Also read the editors’ introduction (783-88). From The Interpretation of Dreams (1900/1929)...

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  • Foucault, Michel

    Assigned: Foucault, Michel. “What Is an Author?” (1394-1409); from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1409-21);from The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, An Introduction(1421-40); from “Society Must Be...

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  • Fish, Stanley

    Assigned: Fish, Stanley E. From Is There a Text in this Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities, Chapter 14. “How to Recognize a Poem When You See One” (1898-1909). Also...

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  • Fanon, Frantz

    Assigned: Fanon, Frantz. From Black Skin, White Masks (1353-60);from The Wretched of the Earth, “On National Culture” (1361-67). Also read editors’ introduction (1351-53). From Black Skin, White Masks (1952) From...

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  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo

    Assigned: Emerson, Ralph Waldo. From The American Scholar (622-25); “The Poet” (625-40). Also read the editors’ introduction (619-22). From The American Scholar (1837/1849) 1. On 622-23 (“The next great influence...

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  • Eliot, T. S.

    Assigned: Eliot, T. S. “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (885-90); “The Metaphysical Poets” (891-98). Also read the editors’ introduction (881-84). “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919) Section I 1. On...

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  • Eagleton, Terry

    Assigned: Eagleton, Terry. From Literary Theory: An Introduction, from Chapter 1. “The Rise of English” (2015-21); from Culture and the Death of God, from Chapter 6. “Modernism and After” (2021-27)....

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