Literary Theory and Criticism

  • Bousquet, Marc

    Assigned: Bousquet, Marc. From “The Waste Product of Graduate Education: Toward a Dictatorship of the Flexible” (2572-85). Also read the editors’ introduction (2569-72). From The Waste Product of Graduate Education:...

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  • Bourdieu, Pierre

    Assigned: Bourdieu, Pierre. From Distinction: a Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, “Introduction” (1586-92); from The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field, Part I, from...

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  • Bordo, Susan

    Assigned: Bordo, Susan. From Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Chapter 5. “The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity” (2096-2111). Also read the editors’ introduction (2094-96). From Unbearable...

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  • Bogost, Ian

    Assigned: Bogost, Ian. “The Rhetoric of Video Games” (2653-72). Also read the editors’ introduction (2650-53). “The Rhetoric of Video Games” (2007) 1. On 2653-54 (“Animal Crossing is an ‘animal…”), Ian...

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  • Boccaccio, Giovanni

    Assigned: Boccaccio, Giovanni. From Genealogy of the Gentile Gods, from Book 14 (202-09). Also read the editors’ introduction (200-02). From Genealogy of the Gentile Gods (1350-62) From Book 14 V....

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  • Bloom, Harold

    Assigned: Bloom, Harold. From The Anxiety of Influence, “Introduction. A Meditation upon Priority, and a Synopsis”(1574-80), “Synopsis: Six Revisionary Ratios” (1580-81), and “Interchapter. A Manifesto for Antithetical Criticism” (1581-82). Also...

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  • Bhabha, Homi

    Assigned: Bhabha, Homi K. “The Commitment to Theory” (2152-71). Also read the editors’ introduction (2150-52). “The Commitment to Theory” (1989) Section I 1. On 2152-53 (“There is a damaging and…”),...

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  • Best and Marcus

    Assigned: Best, Stephen and Sharon Marcus. From “Surface Reading: An Introduction” (2605-19). Also read the editors’ introduction (2603-05). From “Surface Reading: An Introduction” (2009) Reading “The Way We Read Now”...

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  • Berlant and Warner

    Assigned: Berlant, Lauren and Michael Warner. “Sex in Public” (2452-67). Also read the editors’ introduction (2450-52). “Sex in Public” (1998) There Is Nothing More Public Than Privacy                                1. On 2452-53...

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  • Bennett, Jane

    Assigned: Bennett, Jane. From Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, Chapter 1. “The Force of Things” (2434-50). Also read the editors’ introduction (2431-34). From Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology...

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