Acknowledgements

Preface

General Introduction

PART ONE Origins and Foundations

Section One: Seminal Texts

The German Ideology ([1846] 1966)

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1916)

Course in General Linguistics (1915)

The Second Sex ([1953] 1972)

Section Two: Formalism and Structuralism

`Art as Technique' (1917)

`The Language of Paradox' (1947)

Narrative Discourse (1980)

`To Write: An Intransitive Verb?' (1966)

`Analysis and Interpretation of the Realist Text' (1980)

Section Three: Marxism

The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (1972)

`On Lyric Poetry and Society' (1991)

Marxism and Literature (1977)

`Literature as an Ideological Form' (1978)

Section Four: Feminism

`Towards a Feminist Poetics' (1979)

The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)

`Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism' (1980)

The Marxist-Feminist Collective, From `Women Writing: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Aurora Leigh' (1978)

PART TWO After Deconstruction

Section One: Seminal Texts

`The Death of the Author' (1968)

`The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience' (1949)

`Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences' 91966)

`The Order of Discourse' (1971)

`Women's Time' (1981)

Section Two: Subjectivity and Gender

`Sorties' (1975)

`Sexual Difference' (1977)

Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault (1991)

Bodies That Matter (1993)

Section Three: Histories and Textuality

`Discourse in the Novel' (1934)

`The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality' (1987)

`The Resistance to Theory' (1982)

`The Text, the Poem, and the Problem of Historical Method' (1985)

`Resonance and Wonder' (1990)

Section Four: Postmodernism

`Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?' (1986)

Simulations (1983)

The Illusions of Postmodernism (1997)

`Postmodernism and Feminism' (1998)

Section Five: Postcolonialism

`Postmodern Blackness' (1991)

Culture and Imperialism (1993)

`Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse' (1983)

The Post-Colonial Critic (1990)

PART THREE Critical Debates and Issues

Section One: Canonicity and Value

Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)

The Western Canon (1995)

Section Two: Criticism and Ethics

Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (1990)

Totality and Infinity (1969)

Section Three: Criticism and the Institution

Political Correctness (1995)

`Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies and Community' (1985)

Section Four: Criticism and Knowledge

`Texts and Lumps' (1991)

`A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s' (1990)

Select Bibliography

Index