Literary Theory and Criticism

  • Davis, Lennard

    Assigned: Davis, Lennard J. From Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body, from Chapter 6. “Visualizing the Disabled Body: The Classical Nude and the Fragmented Torso” (2173-91). Also read the...

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  • Dabashi, Hamid

    Assigned: Dabashi, Hamid. From The World of Persian Literary Humanism, from “Conclusion: Literary Humanism as an Alternative Theory to Modernity” (2292-2305). Also read the editors’ introduction (2290-92). From The World...

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  • Corneille, Pierre

    Assigned: Corneille, Pierre. “Of the Three Unities of Action, Time and Place” (295-306). Also read the editors’ introduction (291-94). “Of the Three Unities of Action, Time and Place” (1660) 1....

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  • Coleridge, S. T.

    Assigned: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. From Biographia Literaria, from Vol. 1, Chs. 1, 4, 13; from Vol. 2, Ch. 14 (590-97). Also read the editors’ introduction (587-89). From Biographia Literaria (1817)...

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  • Cixous, Hélène

    Assigned: Cixous, Hélène. “The Laugh of the Medusa” (1869-86). Also read the editors’ introduction (1865-68). “The Laugh of the Medusa” (1975/1976) 1. On 1869-70 (“I shall speak about women’s…”), Hélène...

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  • Chow, Rey

    Assigned: Chow, Rey. From Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Film: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility, from “Introduction” (2471-87). Also read the editors’ introduction (2468-71). From Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese...

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  • Butler, Judith

    Assigned: Butler, Judith. “Preface” and selection from Ch. 3. “Subversive Bodily Acts” in Gender Trouble (2375-88). Also read the editors’ introduction (2372-75). From Gender Trouble (1990) From Preface 1. On...

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  • Burke, Edmund

    Assigned: Burke, Edmund. From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, from Part I, Sections I-VIII, from Part III, Section XXVII (467-73). Also...

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  • Brooks, Cleanth

    Assigned: Brooks, Cleanth. “The Heresy of Paraphrase” from The Well Wrought Urn (1183-95). Also read the editors’ introduction (1179-82). From The Well Wrought Urn (1947) The Heresy of Paraphrase 1....

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  • Braidotti, Rosi

    Assigned: Braidotti, Rosi. From The Posthuman, from “Introduction” and from Chapter 1. “Post-Humanism: Life beyond the Self” (2329-52). Also read the editors’ introduction (2325-28). From The Posthuman (2013) From Introduction...

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