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	*Michel Foucault: ''Discipline and Punish'' (1979)		*Michel Foucault: ''Discipline and Punish'' (1979)
	*'''Stephen Greenblatt''': '''"The Improvisation of Power" ~~(1980)~~'''~~; '''''Renaissance Self-Fashioning''~~ (1980)~~'''~~		*'''Stephen Greenblatt''': ''Renaissance Self-Fashioning'' ['''"The Improvisation of Power"'''] (1980)
	*Louis Adrian Montrose: "'Eliza, Queene of Shepheardes' and the Pastoral of Power" (1980); "Renaissance Literary Studies and the Subject of History" (1986)		*Louis Adrian Montrose: "'Eliza, Queene of Shepheardes' and the Pastoral of Power" (1980); "Renaissance Literary Studies and the Subject of History" (1986)
	*H. Aram Veeser (Ed): ''The New Historicism'' (1989)		*H. Aram Veeser (Ed): ''The New Historicism'' (1989)

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	*'''Terry Eagleton: ''Marxism and Literary Criticism'' (1976)'''		*'''Terry Eagleton: ''Marxism and Literary Criticism'' (1976)'''
	*Raymond Williams: ''Marxism and Literature'' ["Dominant, Residual and Emergent"; "Structures of Feeling"] (1977)		*Raymond Williams: ''Marxism and Literature'' ["Dominant, Residual and Emergent"; "Structures of Feeling"] (1977)
	*Frederic Jameson: ''The Political Unconscious'' ["On Interpretation"] (1981); "Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism" (1986), ''Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'' (1991)		*'''Frederic Jameson''': ''The Political Unconscious'' ["On Interpretation"] (1981); "Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism" (1986), ''Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'' ['''"The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"'''](1991)

	===Psychoanalysis, Anthropology===		===Psychoanalysis, Anthropology===

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	*Pierre Bourdieu, "The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed" (1983)		*Pierre Bourdieu, "The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed" (1983)
	*Frederic Jameson, "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (1984)		*Frederic Jameson, "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (1984)
	*Judith Butler, ''Gender ~~Trouble''~~ (1990)		*Judith Butler, "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire" (1990)
	*Kwame Anthony Appiah: "Is the 'Post-' in 'Postcolonial' the 'Post-' in 'Postmodern'?" (1991)		*Kwame Anthony Appiah: "Is the 'Post-' in 'Postcolonial' the 'Post-' in 'Postmodern'?" (1991)

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	*Simon Eliot, Andrew Nash, and Ian Willison: ''Literary Cultures and the Material Book'' (2007)		*Simon Eliot, Andrew Nash, and Ian Willison: ''Literary Cultures and the Material Book'' (2007)
	*Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose: ''A Companion to the History of the Book'' (2007; repr. 2008)		*Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose: ''A Companion to the History of the Book'' (2007; repr. 2008)

			===Digital Humanities===
			*Franco Moretti, ''Graphs, Maps, Trees'' (2007), ''Distant Reading'' (2013)

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	*Roman Jakobson, "Linguistics and Poetics" (1958)		*Roman Jakobson, "Linguistics and Poetics" (1958)
	*Jacques Derrida, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (1966)		*Jacques Derrida, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (1966)
	*Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author" (~~1977~~)		*Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author" (1967)
			*Michel Foucault, "What is an Author?" (1968)
	*Edward Said, "The Scope of Orientalism" (1978)		*Edward Said, "The Scope of Orientalism" (1978)
	*Michel Foucault, "What is an author?" (1980)
	*Stephen Greenblatt, "The Improvisation of Power" (1980)		*Stephen Greenblatt, "The Improvisation of Power" (1980)
	*Pierre Bourdieu, "The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed" (1983)		*Pierre Bourdieu, "The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed" (1983)

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	A preliminary list of literary theory and criticism		A preliminary list of literary theory and criticism. For a rough overview, see [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf].

	==Short List==		==Short List==

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	*Barbara Smith: "Towards a Black Feminist Criticism" (1977)		*Barbara Smith: "Towards a Black Feminist Criticism" (1977)
	*Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar: ''The Madwoman in the Attic'' (1979) [Chapters 1-3, 10]		*Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar: ''The Madwoman in the Attic'' (1979) [Chapters 1-3, 10]
	*Elaine Showalter: ''A Literature of Their Own'' (1977) [Ch. 1, 4, 10]; "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness" (1980); ''Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin the		*Elaine Showalter: ''A Literature of Their Own'' (1977) [Ch. 1, 4, 10]; "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness" (1980); ''Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin the Siècle'' (1992)
	Siècle'' (1992)
	*Adrienne Rich: "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (1980)		*Adrienne Rich: "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (1980)
	*bell hooks: ''Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism'' (1981)		*bell hooks: ''Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism'' (1981)
	*Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: ''Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire'' (1985); ''Epistemology of the Closet'' (1990) ["Axiomatic"]		*Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: ''Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire'' (1985); ''Epistemology of the Closet'' (1990) ["Axiomatic"]
	*Judith Butler: ''Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity'' (1989); ''Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"''(1993)		*Judith Butler: ''Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity'' (1989); ''Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"'' (1993)
	*Christopher Castiglia: "Rebel Without a Closet" (1990)		*Christopher Castiglia: "Rebel Without a Closet" (1990)
	*Wayne Koestenbaum: ''Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism'' (1990)		*Wayne Koestenbaum: ''Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism'' (1990)

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A preliminary list of literary theory and criticism

==Short List==
20th century literary theory and criticism
*Sigmund Freud, "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" [Dora] (1905)
*Viktor Shklovsky, "Art as Technique" (1917)
*T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919)
*Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, "Epic and Novel" (1941)
*Roman Jakobson, "Linguistics and Poetics" (1958)
*Jacques Derrida, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (1966)
*Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author" (1977)
*Edward Said, "The Scope of Orientalism" (1978)
*Michel Foucault, "What is an author?" (1980)
*Stephen Greenblatt, "The Improvisation of Power" (1980)
*Pierre Bourdieu, "The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed" (1983)
*Frederic Jameson, "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (1984)
*Judith Butler, ''Gender Trouble'' (1990)

==Long List==
===Historical===
*Plato: ''Symposium'' (385 BCE); ''Ion''; ''Republic'' (380 BC) [Book 3, 10]; ''Phaedrus'' (370 BC)
*Aristotle: ''Rhetoric'' (4th century BC); ''Poetics'' (350 BC)
*Plotinus: ''On the Intellectual Beauty'' (c. 270 BC)
*Horace: ''Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones'' (18 BC)
*St. Augustine: ''De Ordine''; ''De Musica''; ''On Christian Doctrine'' (397 CE)
*Longinus: ''On the Sublime'' (1st century CE)
*Boethius: ''The Consolation of Philosophy'' (524 CE)
*Al-Jahiz: ''Kitab al-Bayan wa al-Tabyin (The Book of eloquence and demonstration)''; ''Kitab al-Hayawan (Book of Animals)''
*ibn al-Mu'tazz: ''Kitab al-Badi''
*Dante Alighieri: "Letter to Can Grande della Scala"
*Leonardo da Vinci: ''Notebooks''
*Marsilio Ficino: ''Commentary on Plato's Symposium''
*Giovanni Boccaccio: ''The Definition of Poetry''
*Christine de Pisan: "Querrelle della Rose"
*Sir Philip Sidney: ''Defence of Poesie'' (1595)
*Huet: ''A Treatise of Romances and their Original'' (1672)
*Nicholas Boileau: ''The Art of Poetry'' (1683)
*John Dryden: "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy"; "Defense of the Essay of Dramatic Poetry"; "Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy"; "Heads of an Answer to Rymer"; "Parallel Betwixt Poetry and Painting"
*Alexander Pope: "An Essay on Criticism" (1711); Preface to his edition of Shakespeare; "Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry" (1727)
*Samuel Johnson: ''Rasselas'' [Book 10]; "Life of Cowley"; "Preface to Shakespeare"; "Milton"; "Life of Dryden"; "Life of Pope"; "Life of Gray"
*Giambattista Vico: ''The New Science'' [Books 1-3]
*Gotthold Lessing: ''Laocoön'' [Chapters 2,3,16]
*Edmund Burke: ''A Philosophical Enquiry into Our Ideas of the Sublime and of the Beautiful'' (1757)
*Jean-Jacques Rousseau: ''Essay on the origin of language'' (1781)
*Immanuel Kant: ''Critique of Judgement'' [Part I] (1790)
*Mary A. Wollstonecraft: ''A Vindication of the Rights of Women'' (1792)
*Friedrich Schiller: "On the Aesthetic Education of Man"; "On Naive and Sentimental Poetry"
*G.W.F. Hegel: ''Introduction to The Philosophy of Fine Art'' ["Introduction"; "The Master-Slave Relationship"; "Scepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness"; "Spirit in Self-estrangement"; "The Beautiful Soul"]
*Madame de Stael: "Essay on Fiction"
*William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads
*Samuel T. Coleridge: ''Biographia Literaria'' [Chapters 1, 4, 5, 7, 12-15, 17-20]
*Percy B. Shelley: ''Defense of Poetry''
*Victor Hugo: Preface to Cromwell
*Charles Baudelaire: The Salon of 1859; Painter of Modern Life; "On the Essence of Laughter"
*Arthur Schopenhauer: ''The World as Will and Representation'' (1819)
*David Hume: "Of the Standard of Taste"
*Joseph Addison: "The Pleasures of Imagination" [In: ''Spectator'' Nos. 411-421 (1712)]
*John Ruskin: ''Modern Painters'' (1843); ''Sesame and Lilies'' (1864-1865); ''Lectures on Art'' (1870)
*Matthew Arnold: "Science and Poetry", "Culture and Anarchy"; "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"; "Preface to Poems" (1853); "Wordsworth"; "Shelley"; "Sweetness and Light"; "Literature and Science"
*Friedrich Nietzsche: ''The Birth of Tragedy'' (1872); "On Truth and Lies in their Non-Moral Sense"; ''On the Genealogy of Morals'' (1887)
*Walter Pater: ''The Renaissance'' ["Conclusion"] (1873)
*Henry James: "The Art of Fiction" (1888); Prefaces to The American, Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors
*Oscar Wilde: ''Intentions'' ["The Critic as Artist"; "The Decay of Lying"] (1891)
*Stephen Mallarmé: "Crise de vers" (1895)
*Leo Tolstoy: ''What Is Art?'' (1897)
*Gertrude Stein: ''Writings and Lectures'' ("Composition as Explanation", "What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them", "Poetry and Grammar"); ''The Making of Americans in Selected Writings'' (1934)
*Erich Auerbach: ''Scenes from the Drama of European Literature'' ["Figura"]; ''Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature'' [Chapter 1] (1946)
*Marcel Proust: ''Contre Sainte-Beuve'' (1954)

===Positivism===
*Auguste Comte: "Discours sur l'esprit positif" (1844)
*Hippolyte Adolphe Taine: ''History of English Literature'' [Introduction] (1863)
*T.H. Huxley: "The Scientific Aspect of Positivism", "On the Physical Basis of Life" (1869)

===Marxism===
*Karl Marx: ''The German Ideology'' (1845); "Consciousness Derived from Material conditions"; "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte"
*Georg Lukács: ''Theory of the Novel'' (1916) [Part I, 1-5; Part II, 4]; ''The Historical Novel'' (1937) [Chapter 1]; "Realism in the Balance" (1938)
*Louis Althusser: ''Reading Capital'' (1965); "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: Notes Toward an Investigation"
*Walter Benjamin: ''Illuminations'' ["The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", "Author as Producer", "Theses on the Philosophy of History"] (1969, posthumously)
*Theodor Adorno: "Lyric Poetry and Society" (1974); with Max Horkheimer: ''Dialectic of Enlightenment'' (1944)
*Raymond Williams: ''Marxism and Literature'' ["Dominant, Residual and Emergent"; "Structures of Feeling"] (1977)
*Frederic Jameson: ''The Political Unconscious'' ["On Interpretation"] (1981); ''Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'' (1991)

===Psychoanalysis, Anthropology===
*Sigmund Freud: "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" [Dora] (1905); "The Relation of the Poet to Day-Dreaming" (1908); "The Dynamics of Transference" (1912); "Repression" (1915); "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis" [Wolf-Man] (1918); "The Uncanny" (1919); ''Beyond the Pleasure Principle'' (1920); "Medusa's Head" (1922); "A Note upon the 'Mystic Writing-Pad'" (1925); "Fetishism" (1927); ''Civilization and Its Discontents'' (1930); "Femininity" (1933)
*Carl Gustav Jung: ''Modern Man in Search of a Soul'' ["Psychology and Literature"] (1933)
*Jacques Lacan: ''Ecrits: A Selection'' [Chapters 1, 5, 8, and 9] (1966); "Seminar on ''The Purloined Letter''"
*Julia Kristeva: ''Desire in Language'' ["The Bounded Text", "Word, Dialogue, and Novel", "The Novel as Polylogue"] (1969); ''Revolution in Poetic Language'' ["Part 1: The Semiotic and the Symbolic"] (1974); ''Tales of Love'' ["Stabat Mater"] (1983)
*Shoshana Felman: "To Open The Question" (1977)
*René Girard: ''Violence and the Sacred'' [Chapters 1 and 2] (1972; engl. 1977); ''Le Bouc émissaire'' (1985)
*Eric Gans, ''The Origin of Language'' (1981)
*Slavoj Žižek: ''Interrogating the Real'' (2005)

===(Russian) Formalism===
*Viktor Shklovsky: "Art as Technique" (1917)
*Vladimir Propp: ''The Morphology of the Folktale'' (1928)
*Yurii Tynyanov and Roman Jakobson: "Problems in the Study of Language and Literature" (1928; engl. 1971)

===New Criticism===
*T.S. Eliot: "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919); "The Metaphysical Poets"; "Hamlet and His Problems"
*I.A. Richards: ''Principles of Literary Criticism'' (1924)
*F. R. Leavis: ''For Continuity'' ["The Literary Mind"] (1933); ''The Great Tradition'' ["The Great Tradition"] (1948)
*Kenneth Burke: ''The Philosophy of Literary Form'' ["The Philosophy of Literary Form"] (1939); ''A Grammar of Motives'' ["The Problem of the Intrinsic", "The Four Master Tropes"] (1945)
*René Wellek and Austin Warren: ''Theory of Literature'' [Part 1, Chs. 1-4; Part 3, Introduction and Chs. 7-11; Part 4, Introduction and Chs. 12, 17, 18] (1949)
*W. K. Wimsatt: ''The Verbal Icon'' [Parts 1 and 4] (1954)
*Wayne Booth: ''The Rhetoric of Fiction'' (1961)

===Structuralism, Semiotics===
*Roman Jakobson: ''Fundamentals of Language'' ["The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles"] (1956); ''Style in Language'' ["Linguistics and Poetics" (1958)] (1960)
*Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin: ''The Dialogic Imagination'' ("Epic and Novel" (1941), "Discourse in the Novel"); ''Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics'' ["The Hero, and the Position of the Author with Regard to the Hero in Dostoevsky's Art"]; ''Speech Genres and Other Late Essays'' ["The Problem of Speech Genres"]
*Ferdinand de Saussure: ''Course in General Linguistics'' (1916, posthumously)
*Claude Lévi-Strauss: ''Structural Anthropology'' ["The Structural Study of Myth"; "Four Winnebago Myths"; "History and Dialectic"] (1958)
*Roland Barthes: ''Mythologies'' (1957) ["Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature", "Myth Today"]; ''Image, Music, Text'' (1977) ["Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives," "The Struggle with the Angel"]
*Umberto Eco: ''Theory of Semiotics'' (1975; engl. 1976)
*Tzvetan Todorov: ''The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre'' (1970); ''The Poetics of Prose'' (1971) ["Narrative-Men", "The Typology of Detective Fiction", "The Secret of Narrative"]
*Gérard Genette: ''Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method'' (1972)
*Jonathan Culler: ''Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature'' (1975); ''The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction'' [Chapters 1 and 5] (1980)
*Mary Louise Pratt: ''Towards a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse'' (1977)
*Teresa de Lauretis: ''Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema'' (1984) [Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, 5, 6]

===Post-Structuralism===
*Roland Barthes: ''Mythologies'' (1958); ''S/Z'' (1970); ''The Pleasure of the Text'' (1975); ''Image, Music, Text'' ["The Death of the Author", "From Work to Text"] (1977)
*Jacques Derrida: "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (1966); ''Of Grammatology'' (1967) [Part 1, Chs. 1, 2; Part 2, Ch. 2]; ''Margins of Philosophy'' ["Differance", "White Mythology", "Signature Event Context"]; ''Writing and Difference'' (1972) [Chapters 1, 2, 7, 9, 10]; ''Disseminations'' (1972) ["Plato's Pharmacy", "The Double Seance", "Hymen"]
*Michel Foucault: "What is an Author?" (1970); ''The Order of Discourse'' (1971)
*Deleuze and Guattari: ''Capitalism and Schizophrenia 1: Anti-Oedipus'' (1972); ''Capitalism and Schizophrenia 1: A Thousand Plateaus'' (1980) ["Introduction: Rhizome")
*Jean-François Lyotard: ''The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge'' (1979) ["Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?"]
*Jean Baudrillard: "Precession of Simulacra"; ''L'échange symbolique et la mort'' (1976); ''Simulacra and Simulation'' (1981) ["The Process of Simulacra", "Hypermarket and Hypercommodity", "The Implosion of Meaning In the Media" and "Clone Story"]
*Paul de Man: ''Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust'' (1979) ["Excuses (''Confessions'')"]; ''The Rhetoric of Romanticism'' (1984) ["Autobiography As De-Facement"]
*Richard Rorty: ''The Consequences of Pragmatism'' (1982) [Introduction, Chapters 6-8]
*Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: ''The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism'' (1989)

===Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reader Response, Pragmatism===
*Martin Heidegger: ''Poetry, Language, Thought'' ["Being, Dwelling, Thinking"]; ''Being and Time'' (1927) [sections 31-33]
*Georges Poulet: ''The Interior Distance'' ["Marivaux", "Mallarme"]
*Hans-Georg Gadamer: ''Truth and Method'' ["Foundations of a Theory of Hermeneutical Experience"]
*E.D. Hirsch: ''Validity in Interpretation'' ["Objective Interpretation"]
*Paul Ricoeur: ''The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur'' [Section 3: "Language and Hermeneutics", Section 4: "Freud and Psychoanalysis"]; ''Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences'' [Part 1: "Studies in the History of Hermeneutics", Part 2: "Studies in the Theory of Interpretation", Part 3, Ch. 8: "The Model of the Text"]
*Norman Holland: ''The Dynamics of Literary Response'' (1968); ''5 Readers Reading'' (1975)
*Harold Bloom: ''A Map of Misreading'' (1975)
*Wolfgang Iser: "The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach"; ''The Implied Reader'' [Chapter 11]; ''The Act of Reading: : A Theory of Aesthetic Response'' (1978)
*Stanley Fish: "Interpreting the Variorum"; ''Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities'' (1980)
*Hans Robert Jauss: ''Towards an Aesthetics of Reception'' ["Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory"]

===New Historicism===
*Michel Foucault: ''Discipline and Punish'' (1979)
*Stephen Greenblatt: "The Improvisation of Power" (1980); ''Renaissance Self-Fashioning'' (1980)
*Louis Adrian Montrose: "'Eliza, Queene of Shepheardes' and the Pastoral of Power" (1980); "Renaissance Literary Studies and the Subject of History" (1986)
*H. Aram Veeser (Ed): ''The New Historicism'' (1989)

===Cultural Studies===
*Raymond Williams: ''Culture and Society'' (1958); ''Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society'' (1976)
*Michel Foucault: ''The History of Sexuality'' [''The Will to Knowledge'', Vol.1, 1976]; ''The Archeology of Knowledge'' (1969), ''Discipline and Punish'' (1979)
*Clifford Geertz: ''The Interpretation of Culture'' (1973) [Chapter 1]

===Feminism, Gender Theory, Queer Studies===
*Virginia Woolf: "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" (1924); ''A Room of One's Own'' (1929)
*Simone de Beauvoir: ''The Second Sex'' (1949; engl. 1953)
*Susan Sontag: "Notes On 'Camp'" (1964); ''Against Interpretation and Other Essays'' (1966)
*Kate Millett: ''Sexual Politics'' (1970) [Ch. 2]
*Gayle Rubin: "The Traffic in Women" (1975)
*Luce Irigaray: ''Speculum of the Other Woman'' ["The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry"]; ''This Sex Which is Not One'' (1977; engl. 1985) ["This Sex Which Is Not One", "The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine", "The Mechanics of Fluids", "When Our Lips Speak Together", "When the Goods Get Together"]
*Hélène Cixous: "The Laugh of the Medusa"; "Sorties: Out & Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays"; with Catherine Clément: ''The Newly Born Woman''
*Barbara Smith: "Towards a Black Feminist Criticism" (1977)
*Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar: ''The Madwoman in the Attic'' (1979) [Chapters 1-3, 10]
*Elaine Showalter: ''A Literature of Their Own'' (1977) [Ch. 1, 4, 10]; "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness" (1980); ''Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin the
Siècle'' (1992)
*Adrienne Rich: "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (1980)
*bell hooks: ''Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism'' (1981)
*Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: ''Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire'' (1985); ''Epistemology of the Closet'' (1990) ["Axiomatic"]
*Judith Butler: ''Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity'' (1989); ''Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"''(1993)
*Christopher Castiglia: "Rebel Without a Closet" (1990)
*Wayne Koestenbaum: ''Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism'' (1990)
*Judith Roof: ''A Lure of Knowledge'' (1991)
*Lee Edelman: ''Homographesis'' (1994)

===Postcolonial Theory===
*Frantz Fanon: ''Black Skin, White Masks'' (1952; engl. 1967); ''The Wretched of the Earth'' (1961; engl. 1963) ["On National Culture"]
*Edward Said: ''Orienalism'' (1978); ''Culture and Imperialism'' (1993)
*Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: ''In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics'' (1987); ''Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture'' (1988) "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
*Kwame Anthony Appiah: "Is the 'Post-' in 'Postcolonial' the 'Post-' in 'Postmodern'?" (1991); ''In My Father's House'' (1992)
*Sara Suleri: ''The Rhetoric of English India'' (1992)
*Aijaz Ahmad: ''In Theory: Classes, Nations and Literatures'' (1992)
*Paul Gilroy: ''The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness'' (1993)
*Homi Bhabha: The Location of Culture (1994) ["Of Mimicry and Men: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse"]
*Arjun Appadurai: ''Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization'' (1996)
*Graham Huggan: ''The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins'' (2001)

===History of the Book===
*David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery: ''An Introduction to Book History'' (2005); ''The Book History Reader'' (2002; repr. 2008)
*Simon Eliot, Andrew Nash, and Ian Willison: ''Literary Cultures and the Material Book'' (2007)
*Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose: ''A Companion to the History of the Book'' (2007; repr. 2008)

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	===Feminism, Gender Theory, Queer Studies===		===Feminism, Gender Theory, Queer Studies===
	*Virginia Woolf: "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" (1924); ''A Room of One's Own'' (1929)		*'''Virginia Woolf: "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" (1924)'''; ''A Room of One's Own'' (1929)
	*Simone de Beauvoir: ''The Second Sex'' (1949; engl. 1953)		*Simone de Beauvoir: ''The Second Sex'' (1949; engl. 1953)
	*Susan Sontag: "Notes On 'Camp'" (1964); ''Against Interpretation and Other Essays'' (1966)		*'''Susan Sontag: "Notes On 'Camp'" (1964)'''; ''Against Interpretation and Other Essays'' (1966)
	*Kate Millett: ''Sexual Politics'' (1970) [Ch. 2]		*Kate Millett: ''Sexual Politics'' (1970) [Ch. 2]
	*Gayle Rubin: "The Traffic in Women" (1975)		*Gayle Rubin: "The Traffic in Women" (1975)
	*Luce Irigaray: ''Speculum of the Other Woman'' ["The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry"]; ''This Sex Which is Not One'' (1977; engl. 1985) ["This Sex Which Is Not One", "The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine", "The Mechanics of Fluids", "When Our Lips Speak Together", "When the Goods Get Together"]		*Luce Irigaray: ''Speculum of the Other Woman'' ["The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry"]; ''This Sex Which is Not One'' (1977; engl. 1985) ["This Sex Which Is Not One", "The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine", "The Mechanics of Fluids", "When Our Lips Speak Together", "When the Goods Get Together"]
	*Hélène Cixous: "The Laugh of the Medusa"; "Sorties: Out & Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays"; with Catherine Clément: ''The Newly Born Woman''		*Hélène Cixous: "The Laugh of the Medusa"; "Sorties: Out & Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays"; with Catherine Clément: ''The Newly Born Woman''
	*Barbara Smith: "Towards a Black Feminist Criticism" (~~1977~~)		*'''Barbara Smith: "Towards a Black Feminist Criticism" (1978)'''
	*Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar: ''The Madwoman in the Attic'' (1979) [Chapters 1-3, 10]		*Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar: ''The Madwoman in the Attic'' (1979) [Chapters 1-3, 10]
	*Elaine Showalter: ''A Literature of Their Own'' (1977) [Ch. 1, 4, 10]; "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness" (1980); ''Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin the Siècle'' (1992)		*Elaine Showalter: ''A Literature of Their Own'' (1977) [Ch. 1, 4, 10]; "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness" (1980); ''Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin the Siècle'' (1992)
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	*Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: ''Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire'' (1985); ''Epistemology of the Closet'' (1990) ["Axiomatic"]		*Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: ''Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire'' (1985); ''Epistemology of the Closet'' (1990) ["Axiomatic"]
	*Hazel Carby, ''Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist'' [Chapter 1] (1987)		*Hazel Carby, ''Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist'' [Chapter 1] (1987)
	*Judith Butler: ''Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity'' (1993; esp. "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire"); ''Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"'' (1993)		*Donna Haraway: ''The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies'' (1989)
			*'''Judith Butler''': ''Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity'' (1993; esp. '''"Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire"'''); ''Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"'' (1993)
	*Christopher Castiglia: "Rebel Without a Closet" (1990)		*Christopher Castiglia: "Rebel Without a Closet" (1990)
	*Wayne Koestenbaum: ''Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism'' (1990)		*Wayne Koestenbaum: ''Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism'' (1990)