Literary Theory and Criticism

  • Aristotle

    Assigned: Aristotle. Poetics (99-127); from Rhetoric, Books I, II, and III(127-31). Also read the editors’ introduction (95-99). Poetics (circa 330 B.C.E.) 1. On 99 (“The art of poetry, both…”), Aristotle...

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  • Arendt, Hannah

    Assigned: Arendt, Hannah. From The Human Condition, from Ch. 24. “The Disclosure of the Agent in Speech and Action” and Ch. 25. “The Web of Relationships and the Enacted Stories”...

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  • Aquinas, Thomas

    Assigned: Aquinas, Saint Thomas. From Summa Theologica (191-94). Also read the editors’ introduction (188-90). From Summa Theologica (1265-73) Question 1, Ninth Article 1. On 191 (“Obj. 1. It seems that...

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  • Anzaldúa, Gloria

    Assigned: Anzaldúa, Gloria. From Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Chapter 7. “La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness”(1986-97). Also read the editors’ introduction (1983-86). From Borderlands/La Frontera: The New...

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  • Anderson, Benedict

    Assigned: Anderson, Benedict. From Imagined Communities, Ch. 3. “The Origins of National Consciousness” (1832-39). Also read the editors’ introduction (1830-32). From Imagined Communities (1983/2006) Chapter 3. The Origins of National...

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  • Althusser, Louis

    Assigned: Althusser, Louis. From “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)” (1285-1311). Also read the editors’ introduction (1282-85). From Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)...

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  • Alighieri, Dante

    Assigned: Alighieri, Dante. From Il Convivio (196-98); “The Letter to Can Grande” (198-99). Also read the editors’ introduction (194-96). From Il Convivio (1306-09) From Book 2, Chapter 1 1. On...

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  • Agamben, Giorgio

    Assigned: Agamben, Giorgio. From Means Without End: Notes on Politics, “What Is a Camp?” (1968-72); from Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, from Part Three: “The Camp as Biopolitical...

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  • Adūnīs

    Assigned: Adūnīs. From An Introduction to Poetics, from Chapter 1. “Poetics and Orality in the Jāhiliyya” and from Chapter 4. “Poetics and Modernity” (1552-71). Also read the editors’ introduction (1547-51)....

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  • Addison, Joseph

    Assigned: Addison, Joseph. The Spectator, No. 62 “True and False Wit” (360-64); from The Spectator, No 412 “On the Sublime” (365-67). Also read the editors’ introduction (358-60). The Spectator, No....

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