Literary Theory and Criticism

  • Du Bois, W. E. B.

    Assigned: Du Bois, W. E. B. From The Souls of Black Folk, from Chapter I. “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” (845-46); “Criteria of Negro Art” (847-53). Also read the editors’ introduction...

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  • Du Bellay, Joachim

    Assigned: Du Bellay, Joachim. From The Defence and Enrichment of the French Language (227-36). Also read the editors’ introduction (224-26). From The Defence and Enrichment of the French Language (1549)...

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  • Dryden, John

    Assigned: Dryden, John. From “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” (308-10). Also read the editors’ introduction (307-08). From “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” (1668/1684) 1. On 308-09 (“To begin, then, with...

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  • Derrida, Jacques

    Assigned: Derrida, Jacques. “Plato’s Pharmacy”from Dissemination (1608-36); From Specters of Marx (1636-45); from The Animal That Therefore I Am, from Chapter 1 (1645-54). Also read the editors’ introduction (1602-07). From...

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  • Deleuze and Guattari

    Assigned: Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. From Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, from Chapter 3. “What Is a Minor Literature?” (1371-74); from A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, from “Introduction:...

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  • De Staël, Germaine

    Assigned: De Staël, Germaine Necker. From “Essay on Fictions” and “On Women Writers” (517-30). Also read the editors’ introduction (515-17). From “Essay on Fictions” (1795) Introduction 1. On 517-18 (“Man’s...

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  • De Saussure, Ferdinand

    Assigned: De Saussure, Ferdinand. From Course in General Linguistics (824-40). Also read the editors’ introduction (820-23). From Course in General Linguistics (1906-13/1916) From Introduction, Chapter III: The Object of Linguistics...

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  • De Pizan, Christine

    Assigned: De Pizan, Christine. “Christine’s Reaction to Jean de Montreuil’s Treatise on the Roman de la Rose (211-18);from Book of the City of Ladies (218-24). Also read the editors’ introduction...

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  • De Man, Paul

    Assigned: De Man, Paul. From Allegories of Reading, “Semiology and Rhetoric” (1314-26). Also read the editors’ introduction (1311-13). From Allegories of Reading (1973/1979) Semiology and Rhetoric 1. On 1314-15 (“To...

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  • De Beauvoir, Simone

    Assigned: De Beauvoir, Simone. From The Second Sex, Vol. 1, Part 3 “Myths,” Ch. 3. (1214-21). Also read the editors’ introduction (1211-13). From The Second Sex (1949) Vol. 1, Part...

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