1.What is 'Literary Theory?' 2.Humanist Literary Theory Plato Aristotle Horace Sir Philip Sidney Sir Francis Bacon Joseph Addison Edmund Burke Samuel Johnson Sir Joshua Reynolds William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats Edgar Allan Poe Matthew Arnold 3.Structuralism Ferdinand de Saussure Claude Levi-Strauss and 'The Structural Study of Myth' Interlude: Humanism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism 4.Deconstruction Binary Opposition The Role of the Center Bricolage 5.Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud Jacques Lacan Interlude: 'Self' to 'Subject' 6.Feminism 'Pre-poststructuralist' Feminist Literary Theory Poststructuralist Feminist Literary Theory Helene Cixous and 'The Laugh of the Medusa' Luce Irigaray and 'This Sex Which Is Not One' 7.Queer Theory Flexible Sexuality? Gay/Lesbian Studies Interlude: History to Historicism Humanist History New Historicism 8.Ideology and Discourse Marxist Theory: a Few Basics Louis Althusser and Ideology Mikhail Bakhtin and 'Discourse in the Novel' Michel Foucault: Discourse, Power/Knowledge,and the Author Function 9.Race and Postcolonialism Colonialism and 'English' Henry Louis Gates, Jr and 'The Signifying Monkey' Postcolonialism and Orientalism Homi Bhaba and 'The Location of Culture' Gloria Anzaldua and 'Borderlands/La Frontera' 10.Postmodernism Modernity Jean Baudrillard Jean-Francois Lyotard Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari Coda: What Now? Index