Introduction: the prehistory and rise of "theory"
Introduction continued: theory and functionalization
Ways in and out of the hermeneutic circle
Configurative reading
The idea of the autonomous artwork
The new criticism and other western formalisms
Russian formalism
Semiotics and structuralism
Linguistics and literature
Deconstruction I: Jacques Derrida
Deconstruction II: Paul de Man
Freud and fiction
Jacques Lacan in theory
Influence
The postmodern psyche
The social permeability of reader and text
The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
The political unconscious
The new historicism
The classical feminist tradition
African American criticism
Postcolonial criticism
Queer theory and gender performativity
The institutional construction of literary study
The end of theory? Neo-pragmatism
Conclusion: who doesn't hate theory now?
Appendix: passages referenced in lectures
The varieties of interpretation: a guide to further reading in literary theory, by Stefan Esposito.
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Theory of literature by Paul H. Fry. ISBN 9780300180831. Published by Yale University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
