Chapter
Part One: Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Poetics
Chapter 1 Introduction: Formalisms
Chapter 2 Art as Technique
Chapter 3 The Formalist Critics
Chapter 4 Keats’ Sylvan Historian:: History Without the Footnotes
Chapter 5 The Intentional Fallacy
Chapter 6 Broken on Purpose: Poetry, Serial Television, and the Season
Prosodic Structures in Television Serials
A Case Study of the Sonnet-Season: Season 1 of The Sopranos
Chapter 7 Tools for Reading Poetry
Sound Poetry/Concrete Poetry
Chapter 8 Theory in Practice: “Look, Her Lips”: Softness of Voice, Construction of Character in King Lear
Chapter 9 Theory in Practice: Romantic Rhetorics (from Elizabeth Bishop: The Restraints of Language)
Part Two: Structuralism, Linguistics, Narratology
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Implied Order: Structuralism
Chapter 2 The Linguistic Foundation
Chapter 3 Course in General Linguistics
PART ONE General Principles
Chapter I: nature of the linguistic sign
Chapter II: immutability and mutability of the sign
Chapter III: static and evolutionary linguistics
PART TWO Synchronic Linguistics
Chapter II: the concrete entities of language
Chapter III: identities, realities, values
Chapter IV: linguistic value
Chapter V: syntagmatic and associative relations
Chapter 4 The Structural Study of Myth
Chapter 6 Discourse in the Novel
Chapter 7 What Is an Author?
Chapter 8 Scripts, Sequences, and Stories:: Elements of a Postclassical Narratology
Sequences: Classical Accounts and Postclassical Perspectives
The Problem of Narrativity: A Thought Experiment
Scripts and Literary Interpretation
Chapter 9 From Beats to Arcs:: Towards a Poetics of Television Narrative
“From Beats to Arcs” 2015 Postscript
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: The Subplot as Simplification in King Lear
Chapter 11 Theory in Practice: The Stories of “Passion”: An Empirical Study
Part Three: Phenomenology, Reception, Ethics
Chapter 1 Introduction: Situations of Knowledge/Relations with Others
Chapter 2 Transcendental Aesthetic
General Observations on Transcendental Aesthetic
Conclusion of the Transcendental Aesthetic
Chapter 3 The Phenomenology of Reading
Chapter 4 Teaching, Studying, and Theorizing the Production and Reception of Literary Texts
Classes and Classifications
Embodied Social Structures
Knowledge without Concepts
Advantageous Attributions
The Classification Struggle
The Reality of Representation and the Representation of Reality
Chapter 6 Ethics and the Face
4. Discourse Founds Signification
5. Language and Objectivity
6. The Other and the Others
7. The Asymmetry of the Interpersonal
Chapter 7 Levinas and Literary Interpretation:: Facing Baudelaire’s “Eyes of the Poor”
Chapter 8 Cultivating Humanity:: The Narrative Imagination
Literature and the Compassionate Imagination
Compassion in the Curriculum: A Political Agenda?
World Citizenship, Relativism, and Identity Politics
Chapter 9 Theory in Practice: Relation and Responsibility: A Levinasian Reading of King Lear
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: The Baby or the Violin: Ethics and Femininity in the Fiction of Alice Munro
Part Four: Post-Structuralism
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Class of 1968 – Post-Structuralism par lui-même
Chapter 2 The Will to Power
Chapter 3 What Is Becoming?
Chapter 5 That Dangerous Supplement
From/Of Blindness to the Supplement
The Exorbitant. Question of Method
Chapter 6 The Death of the Author
Chapter 7 From Work to Text
Chapter 9 Theory in Practice: Lear’s After-Life
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice Allegories of Reading in Alice Munro’s “Carried Away”
Part Five: Psychoanalysis and Psychology
Chapter 1 Introduction: Strangers to Ourselves: Psychoanalysis
Chapter 2 The Interpretation of Dreams
The Dream of the Botanical Monograph
Chapter 4 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
Chapter 5 The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience
Chapter 6 Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena
A Study of the First Not-me Possession
Clinical Description of a Transitional Object
Chapter 7 Trauma Studies and the Literature of the US South
Trauma and the U.S. South
Chapter 8 Theory in Practice: King Lear: The Transference of the Kingdom
Chapter 9 Theory in Practice: The Weirdest Scale on Earth: Elizabeth Bishop and Containment
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: The Uncontrollable: The Underground Stream
Part Six: Marxism, Critical Theory, History
Chapter 1 Introduction: Starting with Zero
Chapter 2 The Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts of 1844
Private Property and Communism
Chapter 3 The German Ideology
Chapter 4 Theses on the Philosophy of History
Chapter 5 Structures and the Habitus
A False Dilemma: Mechanism and Finalism
Structures, Habitus and Practices
The Dialectic of Objectification and Embodiment
Chapter 6 Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
Ideology is a “Representation” of the Imaginary Relationship of Individuals to their Real Conditions of Existence
Ideology Interpellates Individuals as Subjects
Chapter 7 Right of Death and Power over Life
PART ONE The Logic of Sovereignty
Chapter 9 New Historicisms
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: Reason and Need: King Lear and the Crisis of the Aristocracy
Chapter 11 Theory in Practice: Social Class in Alice Munro’s “Sunday Afternoon” and “Hired Girl”
Chapter 12 Theory in Practice: Elizabeth Bishop, Modernism, and the Left
Part Seven: Gender Studies and Queer Theory
Chapter 1 Introduction: Feminist Paradigms/Gender Effects
Chapter 2 The Traffic in Women
Deeper into the Labyrinth
Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents
The Political Economy of Sex
Chapter 3 Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience
Chapter 4 The Laugh of the Medusa
Chapter 5 Imitation and Gender Insubordination
Chapter 6 Global Identities:: Theorizing Transnational Studies of Sexuality
Chapter 7 Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts
Gender and Work: Historical and Ideological Transformations
Housewives and Homework: The Lacemakers of Narsapur
Immigrant Wives, Mothers, and Factory Work: Electronics Workers in the Silicon Valley
Daughters, Wives, and Mothers: Migrant Women Workers in Britain
Common Interests/Different Needs: Collective Struggles of Poor Women Workers
Chapter 8 “I Would Rather Be a Cyborg Than a Goddess”:: Becoming Intersectional in Assemblage Theory
Intersectionality and Its Discontents
Cyborgs and Other Companionate Assemblages
Re-reading Intersectionality as Assemblage
Chapter 9 Epistemology of the Closet
Chapter 10 Queers, Read This
A Leaflet Distributed at Pride March in NY Published anonymously by Queers June, 1990
An Army of Lovers cannot Lose
Get Up, Wake Up Sisters!!
When Anyone Assaults You for being Queer, It is Queer Bashing. Right?
Rules of Conduct for Straight People
1. There Is Nothing More Public Than Privacy
2. Normativity and Sexual Culture
4. Tweaking and Thwacking
Chapter 12 Naturally Queer
Queerying Sexual Difference
Chapter 13 Cruising Utopia:: “Introduction” and “Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism”
Chapter 14 Theory in Practice: Queer Lear: A Gender Reading of King Lear
Chapter 15 Theory in Practice Elizabeth Bishop’s “Queer Birds”: Vassar, Con Spirito, and the Romance of Female Community
Part Eight: Ethnic, Indigenous, Post-Colonial, and Transnational Studies
Chapter 1 Introduction: English Without Shadows: Literature on a World Scale
Chapter 3 An Image of Africa:: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Chapter 4 Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism
Chapter 5 Playing in the Dark
Chapter 7 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Chapter 8 Cultural Identity and Diaspora
Chapter 9 Translation, Empiricism, Ethics
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: National Messianism and English Choreography in King Lear
I. Nation, Nature and Natio: “The King Falls from Bias of Nature”
II. Topography, Topos and Telos: Kent and National Messianism
III. Alba, Albion and Albany: “Wherefore to Dover?”
IV. The Duke of Albany and Macbeth: “Is This the Promised End?”
Chapter 11 Theory in Practice Elizabeth Bishop’s “Brazil, January 1, 1502” and Max Jacob’s “Etablissement d’une communauté au Brésil”: A Study of Transformative Interpretation and Influence
Chapter 12 Theory in Practice: Annals of Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro
Chapter 1 Introduction: In the Body of the Text
Chapter 2 Embodied Literature: A Cognitive-Poststructuralist Approach to Genre
Chapter 3 Narrative Empathy
A Theory of Narrative Empathy
Empathetic Narrative Techniques
How Narrative Empathy Works: Authors and Audiences
Chapter 4 Affective Economies
Fear, Bodies, and Objects
Chapter 5 Human Nature and Literary Meaning
The Challenge to a Darwinian Literary Criticism
The Emerging Paradigm in Darwinian Psychology
The Cognitive Behavioral System
A Diagram of Human Nature
Meaning and Point of View in Literary Representations
Human Nature, Human Universals, Culture, and Individual Differences
Life History Analysis and Cognitive Style in Pride and Prejudice
The Value of a Darwinian Literary Criticism
Chapter 6 Literary Brains:: Neuroscience, Criticism, and Theory
The Goals of Literary Criticism and Theory and Their Relation to Neuroscience
A Concluding Note on the Distinctness of Literary Study
Chapter 7 Digital Humanities: Theorizing Research Practices
Chapter 8 Planet Hollywood
Chapter 9 Theory in Practice: According to My Bond: King Lear and Re-Cognition
1 Metaphor and Schematised Bodily Experience
2 The King’s Account-books
4 On Description and Explanation
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: Skinned: Taxidermy and Pedophilia in Munro’s “Vandals”
Part Ten: Animals, Humans, Places, Things
Chapter 1 Introduction: Matters Pertinent to a Theory of Human Existence
Chapter 2 Non-Representational Theory: Life, But Not as We Know It
Non-Representational Theory
Chapter 4 On Actor Network Theory: A Few Clarifications
Chapter 5 The Animal Turn, Literary Studies, and the Academy
Chapter 6 The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification
The Roots of Ecocriticism
The First Wave – Reinstating the ‘Real’
The Second Wave – Debating ‘Nature’
Slow Violence – Towards a Global Ecocriticism
Eco-Cosmopolitics and the Third Wave
The Fourth Wave – Material Ecocriticism: Post-Human and Post-Nature
Shared Materiality and Post-Humanism
‘Thing Power’: Ethical Challenges
The Future of Ecocriticism – Despair, Excitement and ‘Slow Reading’
Chapter 8 Eating Things: Food, Animals, and Other Life Forms in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books
Chapter 9 Theory in Practice: The Autumn King: Remembering the Land in King Lear
Chapter 10 Theory in Practice: Elizabeth Bishop’s “Pink Dog”
‘Pink Dog’ and Non-human Knowledge
Literary Theory
：An Anthology
( Blackwell Anthologies )
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