Literary Theory and Criticism

  • Horkheimer and Adorno

    Assigned: Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno. “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1033-50). Also read the editors’ introduction (1030-32). From Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947) The...

  • Horace

    Assigned: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). Ars Poetica (133-44). Also read the editors’ introduction (131-33). Ars Poetica (circa 10 B.C.E.) 1. On 133-135 (“Imagine a painter wanting to attach…”), Horace, writing...

  • Hooks, Bell

    Assigned: hooks, bell. “Postmodern Blackness” from Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (2318-25). Also read the editors’ introduction (2316-18). “Postmodern Blackness” from Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (1990) 1....

  • Herman, David

    Assigned: Herman, David. “Narrative Theory after the Second Cognitive Revolution” (2552-69). Also read the editors’ introduction (2549-51). “Narrative Theory after the Second Cognitive Revolution” (2010) 1. On 2552-53 (“In parallel...

  • Heidegger, Martin

    Assigned: Heidegger, Martin. “Language” (914-27). Also read the editors’ introduction (912-13). “Language” (1950) 1. On 914-15 (“Man speaks. We speak when we are awake…”), Martin Heidegger writes that the expected...

  • Hegel, Georg

    Assigned: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. From Phenomenology of Spirit, “The Master-Slave Dialectic” (549-55) and from Lectures on Fine Art, from Introduction. “The Work of Art as a Product of Human...

  • Hebdige, Dick

    Assigned: Hebdige, Dick. From Subculture: The Meaning of Style, Chapter 6. “Subculture: The Unnatural Break” (2309-16). Also read the editors’ introduction (2305-08). From Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979) Chapter...

  • Hayles, N. Katherine

    Assigned: Hayles, N. Katherine. “How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine” (2073-94). Also read the editors’ introduction (2071-73). “How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine” (2010) 1. On 2073-75 (“The evidence is...

  • Hayek, Friedrich

    Assigned: Hayek, Friedrich A. From The Constitution of Liberty, Chapter 6. “Equality, Value, and Merit”(1081-95). Also read the editors’ introduction (1079-81). From The Constitution of Liberty (1960) Chapter 6. Equality,...

  • Harvey, David

    Assigned: Harvey, David. From A Brief History of Neoliberalism, “Introduction” and from Chapter 6. “Neoliberalism on Trial” 877 (1774-79). Also read the editors’ introduction (1772-73). From A Brief History of...