| New Criticism and Reader Response Theory |
| Keats, John. "Ode on a Grecian Urn."  Brooks, Cleanth. "Keats's Sylvan Historian: History Without Footnotes." In The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry. New York, NY: Mariner Books, 1956. ISBN: 9780156957052.
Wimsatt, William Kurtz. "The Intentional Fallacy." In The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1954. ISBN: 9780813101118. Wimsatt, William Kurtz, and M. C. Beardsley. "The Affective Fallacy." The Sewanee Review 57, no. 1 (1949): 31-55. Milton, John. Sonnets XVIII-XX. Mailloux, Steven. "Stanley Fish's 'Interpreting the Variorum': Advance or Retreat?" Critical Inquiry 3, no. 1 (1976): 31-55. Fish, Stanley. Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780674467262. |
| Structuralism 1 |
Bremond, Claude. "Morphology of the French Folktale." Semiotica 2, no. 3 (1970): 247-276. Saussure, Ferdinand De. Course in General Linguistics. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780231157278. The Brothers Grimm. "Rapunzel." Greimas, A. J., and F. Rastier. "The Interaction of Semiotic Constraints." Yale French Studies, no. 41 (1968): 86-105. Notes 4 (PDF)
Notes on overview of Saussure |
| Structuralism 2 |
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. New York, NY: Prestwick House, 2005. ISBN: 9781580495936. [Download a version from the Internet Classics Archive] Levi-Strauss, Claude. "The Structural Study of Myth." In Structural Anthropology. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780226474915. Foucault, Michel. "What is an Author?" In The Foucault Reader. New York, NY: Pantheon, 1984. ISBN: 9780394713403. |
| Derrida and Deconstruction 1 |
Derrida, Jacques. "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences." In Writing and Difference. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 9780415255370. Levi-Strauss, Claude. Elementary Structures of Kinship. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780807046692. ———. "The Writing Lesson." In Tristes Tropiques. New York, NY: Penguin, 1992. ISBN: 9780140165623. Notes 5 (PDF)
Notes on extract from "Elementary Structures" Notes 6 (PDF)
Notes on Structure, Sign and Play |
| Derrida and Deconstruction 2 |
Dinesen, Isak. "The Blank Page." In Last Tales. New York, NY: Vintage, 1991. ISBN: 9780679736400. Austin, John Langshaw. How To Do Things With Words. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975, lecture I. ISBN: 9780674411524. Johnson, B. "Nothing Fails Like Success." In World of Difference. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780801837456. Culler, Jonathan. On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007, pp. 110-134. ISBN: 9780801474057. |
| Psychoanalysis |
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. vii-xv, and 3-19. ISBN: 9780199538843. Lacan, Jacques. "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience." Ecrits, A Selection (1949): 1-7. |
| Psychoanalysis and Jacques Lacan 1 |
Zizek, Slavoj. Chapter 1 in Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415772594. Lacan, J. Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN: 9780393329254. Zizek, Slavoj. The Sublime Object of Ideology. Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 1997. ISBN: 9780860919711. Notes (PDF)
Notes on Zizek's graphs |
| Psychoanalysis and Jacques Lacan 2 |
Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Purloined Letter." Lacan, Jacques. "The seminar on The Purloined Letter." Yale French Studies 48 (1972): 39-72. Felman, Shoshana. "The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida." In Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780801827549. |
| Michel Foucault |
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction. New York, NY: Vintage, 1990. ISBN: 9780679724698. ———. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York, NY: Vintage, 1995, pp. 135-195. ISBN: 9780679752554. Davidson, Arnold I. "Foucault Revolutionizes History." In Foucault and His Interlocutors. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press Journals, 1998. ISBN: 9780226137148. Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York, NY: Tribeca Books, 2011. ISBN: 9781936594191. |
| Badiou, Deleuze |
Deleuz, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. Chapter 6 in Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780816614028. Badios, Alain. Chapter 1 in Infinite Thought. New York, NY: Continuum, 2005. ISBN: 9780826479297. ———. Chapter 6 in Theoretical Writings. New York, NY: Continuum, 2006. ISBN: 9780826493248. |
