Literary Theory and Criticism

  • Maimonides, Moses

    Assigned: Maimonides, Moses. From The Guide of the Perplexed (180-88). Also read the editors’ introduction (177-80). From The Guide of the Perplexed (1190) From [Introduction to the First Part] 1....

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  • Marx and Engels

    Assigned: Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. From Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (655-59); from The German Ideology (659-60); from The Communist Manifesto (661-64); from Grundrisse (665-66); from “Preface” to...

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  • Mazzoni, Giacopo

    Assigned: Mazzoni, Giacopo. From On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante (238-59). Also read the editors’ introduction (236-38). From On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante (1587) 1....

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  • McGurl, Mark

    Assigned: McGurl, Mark. From “The Program Era: Pluralisms of Postwar American Fiction” (2588-2603). Also read the editors’ introduction (2586-88). “The Program Era: Pluralisms of Postwar American Fiction” (2005) 1. Getting...

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  • Lessing, Gotthold

    Assigned: Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. From Laocoön (476-92). Also read the editors’ introduction (473-76). From Laocoön (1766) From Preface 1. On 476 (“The first person to compare painting…”), what, according to...

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  • Lacan, Jacques

    Assigned: Lacan, Jacques. “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience” (1111-17); from “The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious” (1117-29);...

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  • Latour, Bruno

    Assigned: Latour, Bruno. “Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern” (2115-36). Also read the editors’ introduction (2111-15). “Why Has Critique Run Out...

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  • Leavis, F. R.

    Assigned: Leavis, F. R. From The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, from I. “The Great Tradition” (1052-63). Also read the editors’ introduction (1050-52). From The Great Tradition:...

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  • Kaplan, E. Ann

    Assigned: Kaplan, E. Ann. From Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media, from Chapter 1. “Why Trauma Now?: Freud and Trauma Studies” (1856-65). Also read the editors’...

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  • Kōjin, Karatani

    Assigned: Kōjin, Karatani. From Origins of Modern Japanese Literature, from Chapter 1. “The Discovery of Landscape,” 2, 6 (1929-38). Also read the editors’ introduction (1925-28). From Origins of Modern Japanese...

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