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No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers.  \nMary Klages has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nISBN: 0-8264-9072-7 (hardback)  \nISBN: 978-0-8264-9072-8 (hardback)  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nA catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress  \nTypeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Manchester Printed and bound in Great Britain  \nCONTENTS  \n1. What is ‘Literary Theory?’ 1  \n2. Humanist Literary Theory 10  \nPlato 12  \nAristotle 14  \nHorace 17  \nSir Philip Sidney 18  \nSir Francis Bacon 19  \nJoseph Addison 20  \nEdmund Burke 21  \nSamuel Johnson 21  \nSir Joshua Reynolds 23  \nWilliam Wordsworth 24  \nSamuel Taylor Coleridge 25  \nJohn Keats 27  \nEdgar Allan Poe 27  \nMatthew Arnold 28  \n3. Structuralism 31  \nFerdinand de Saussure 34  \nClaude Levi-Strauss and ‘The Structural Study of Myth’ 41  \nInterlude: Humanism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism 47  \n4. Deconstruction 53  \nBinary Opposition 54  \nThe Role of the Center 55  \nBricolage 60  \n5. Psychoanalysis 63  \nSigmund Freud 63  \nCONTENTS  \nJacques Lacan 73  \nInterlude: ‘Self’ to ‘Subject’ 88  \n6. Feminism 91  \n‘Pre-poststructuralist’Feminist Literary Theory 93  \nPoststructuralist Feminist Literary Theory 95  \nHélène Cixous and ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ 98  \nLuce Irigaray and ‘This Sex Which Is Not One’ 106  \n7. Queer Theory 111  \nFlexible Sexuality? 113  \nGay/Lesbian Studies 116  \nInterlude: History to Historicism 121  \nHumanist History 122  \nNew Historicism 123  \n8. Ideology and Discourse 126  \nMarxist Theory: a Few Basics 126  \nLouis Althusser and Ideology 131  \nMikhail Bakhtin and ‘Discourse in the Novel’ 135  \nMichel Foucault: Discourse, Power/Knowledge, 142  \nand the Author Function  \n9. Race and Postcolonialism 147  \nColonialism and ‘English’ 148  \nHenry Louis Gates, Jr and ‘The Signifying Monkey’ 149  \nPostcolonialism and Orientalism 152  \nHomi Bhaba and ‘The Location of Culture’ 157  \nGloria Anzaldúa and ‘Borderlands/La Frontera’ 162  \n10. 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