Literary Theory and Criticism

  • Kristeva, Julia

    Assigned: Kristeva, Julia.From Revolution in Poetic Language, from Part I. The Semiotic and the Symbolic; from 2. “The Semiotic Chora Ordering the Drives” (1942-48); from 5. “The Thetic: Rupture and/or...

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  • Kant, Immanuel

    Assigned: Kant, Immanuel. From Critique of Judgment, from “Introduction” (429-30); from Book I: “Analytic of the Beautiful” (431-45); from Book II: Analytic of the Sublime (445-63). Also read the editors’...

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  • Johnson, Samuel

    Assigned: Johnson, Samuel. The Rambler, #4 “On Fiction” (387-90); from The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (390-92); from “Preface to Shakespeare” (392-405); “On Metaphysical Wit” from Lives of the...

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  • Jameson, Fredric

    Assigned: Jameson, Fredric. From The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, Preface; from Chapter 1. “On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act”(1734-57); “Postmodernism and Consumer Society” (1758-71)....

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  • James, Henry

    Assigned: James, Henry. “The Art of Fiction” (721-36). Also read the editors’ introduction (719-21). “The Art of Fiction” (1884/1888) 1. On 721-22 (“I should not have affixed so…”), what does...

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  • Jakobson, Roman

    Assigned: Jakobson, Roman. From “Linguistics and Poetics” (1067-74); “Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances,” V. “The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles” (1074-78). Also read the editors’ introduction...

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  • Iser, Wolfgang

    Assigned: Iser, Wolfgang. “Interaction between Text and Reader” (1452-60). Also read the editors’ introduction (1450-52). “Interaction between Text and Reader” (1980) 1. On 1452-53 (“Central to the reading of every…”),...

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  • Hurston, Zora Neale

    Assigned: Hurston, Zora Neale. “Characteristics of Negro Expression” (938-50); “What White Publishers Won’t Print” (950-54). Also read the editors’ introduction (936-37). “Characteristics of Negro Expression” (1934) Drama 1. On 938-39...

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  • Hume, David

    Assigned: Hume, David. “Of the Standard of Taste” (410-424). Also read the editors’ introduction (408-10). “Of the Standard of Taste” (1757) 1. On 410-12 (“The great variety of Taste…”), David...

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  • Hughes, Langston

    Assigned: Hughes, Langston. “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1140-44). Also read the editors’ introduction (1138-40). “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926) 1. On 1140 (“One of...

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