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Alternative Table of Contents | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction to Theory and Criticism | |
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From Encomium of Helen | |
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Ion | |
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Republic | |
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from Book II | |
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from Book III | |
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from Book VII | |
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from Book X | |
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from Phaedrus | |
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Poetics | |
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Rhetoric | |
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Book I | |
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from Chapter 2 | |
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from Chapter 3 | |
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Book II | |
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from Chapter 1 | |
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Book III | |
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from Chapter 2 | |
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Ars Poetica | |
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from On Sublimity | |
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Institutio Oratoria | |
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Book 8 | |
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from Chapter 5 | |
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from Chapter 6 | |
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Book 9 | |
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from Chapter 1 | |
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from Chapter 2 | |
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Book 12 | |
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From Chapter 2 | |
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Fifth Ennead | |
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Eighth Tractate. On the Intellectual Beauty | |
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On Christian Doctrine | |
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from Book One | |
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from Book Two | |
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from Book Three | |
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The Trinity | |
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Book Fifteen | |
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from Chapter 9 | |
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from Chapter 10 | |
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from Chapter 11 | |
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Commentary on the Dream of Scipio | |
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Chapter III | |
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The Didascalicon | |
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from Book One | |
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from Book Three | |
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from Book Five | |
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from Book Six | |
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The Guide of the Perplexed | |
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[Introduction to the First Part] | |
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Poetria Nova | |
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I. General Remarks on Poetry/Divisions of the Present Treatise | |
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from II. Ordering the Material | |
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from III. Amplification and Abbreviation | |
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from IV. Ornaments of Style | |
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Summa Theologica | |
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from Question I | |
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Il Convivio | |
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Book Two | |
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Chapter 1 | |
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from The Letter to Can Grande | |
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Genealogy of the Gentile Gods | |
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Book 14 | |
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V. Other Cavillers at the Poets and Their Imputations | |
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VII. The Definition of Poetry, Its Origin, and Function | |
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XII. The Obscurity of Poetry Is Not Just Cause For Condemning It | |
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The Book of the City of Ladies | |
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from Part One | |
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from Part Two | |
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From Discourse on the Composition of Romances | |
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The Defence and Illustration of the French Language | |
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Book I | |
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Chapters I-VII | |
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Book II | |
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Chapters III-IV | |
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from A Brief on the Art of French Poetry | |
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On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante | |
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from Introduction and Summary | |
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An Apology for Poetry | |
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Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place | |
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from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | |
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from Preface to Troilus and Cressida | |
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from Preface to Sylvae | |
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The Dutch Lover | |
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Epistle to the Reader | |
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Preface to The Lucky Chance | |
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from The New Science | |
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The Spectator, No. 62 | |
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[True and False Wit] | |
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The Spectator, No. 412 | |
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[On the Sublime] | |
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from Conjectures on Original Composition | |
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An Essay on Criticism | |
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The Rambler, No. 4 | |
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[On Fiction] | |
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia | |
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Chapter X. Imlac's History Continued. A Dissertation upon Poetry | |
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from Preface to Shakespeare | |
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Lives of the English Poets | |
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From Cowley | |
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[On Metaphysical Wit] | |
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Of the Standard of Taste | |
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Critique of Judgment | |
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from Introduction | |
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from Book I. Analytic of the Beautiful | |
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from Book II. Analytic of the Sublime | |
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful | |
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Introduction on Taste | |
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Part I. Section VII. Of the Sublime | |
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Part III. Section XXVII. The Sublime and Beautiful Compared | |
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From Laocoon | |
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On the Aesthetic Education of Man | |
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Second Letter | |
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Sixth Letter | |
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Ninth Letter | |
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
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from Chapter II. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed | |
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From Essay on Fictions | |
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On Literature Considered in Its Relationship to Social Institutions | |
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On Women Writers (2.4) | |
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Hermeneutics | |
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Outline of the 1819 Lectures | |
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Introduction | |
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Part Two. The Technical Interpretation | |
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Phenomenology of Spirit | |
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[The Master-Slave Dialectic] | |
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Lectures on Fine Art | |
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From Introduction | |
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Preface to Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems (1802) | |
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From The Statesman's Manual | |
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Biographia Literaria | |
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from Chapter 1 | |
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from Chapter 4 | |
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from Chapter 13 | |
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Chapter 14 | |
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The Four Ages of Poetry | |
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from A Defence of Poetry, or Remarks Suggested by an Essay Entitled "The Four Ages of Poetry" | |
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from The American Scholar | |
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The Poet | |
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The Philosophy of Composition | |
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from Preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin | |
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from Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 | |
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from The German Ideology | |
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from The Communist Manifesto | |
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from Grundrisse | |
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from Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy | |
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Capital, Volume 1 | |
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from Chapter 1. Commodities | |
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from Chapter 10. The Working-Day | |
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from Letter from Friedrich Engels to Joseph Bloch | |
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The Painter of Modern Life | |
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from I. Beauty, Fashion, and Happiness | |
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from III. The Artist, Man of the World, Man of the Crowd, and Child | |
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IV. Modernity | |
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from IX. The Dandy | |
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XI. In Praise of Cosmetics | |
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The Function of Criticism at the Present Time | |
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Culture and Anarchy | |
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from Chapter 1. Sweetness and Light | |
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance | |
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Preface | |
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Conclusion | |
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Crisis in Poetry | |
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The Art of Fiction | |
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On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense | |
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from The Birth of Tragedy | |
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Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray | |
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from The Critic as Artist | |
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The Interpretation of Dreams | |
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from Chapter V. The Material and Sources of Dreams | |
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from Chapter VI. The Dream-Work | |
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The "Uncanny" | |
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Fetishism | |
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Course in General Linguistics | |
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Introduction | |
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Chapter III. The Object of Linguistics | |
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General Principles | |
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Chapter I. Nature of the Linguistic Sign | |
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Synchronic Linguistics | |
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Chapter IV. Linguistic Value | |
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Chapter V. Syntagmatic and Associative Relations | |
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Criteria of Negro Art | |
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On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry | |
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Literature and Revolution | |
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The Formalist School of Poetry and Marxism | |
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A Room of One's Own | |
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[Shakespeare's Sister] | |
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[Chloe Liked Olivia] | |
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[Androgny] | |
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Realism in the Balance | |
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from The Theory of the "Formal Method" | |
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Tradition and the Individual Talent | |
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The Metaphysical Poets | |
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Criticism, Inc. | |
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Language | |
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The Formation of the Intellectuals | |
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Characteristics of Negro Expression | |
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What White Publishers Won't Print | |
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | |
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from Discourse in the Novel | |
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Dialectic of Enlightenment | |
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from The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception | |
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Marxism and Literature | |
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from Linguistics and Poetics | |
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Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances | |
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V. The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles | |
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Kinds of Criticism | |
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The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience | |
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from The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious | |
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The Signification of the Phallus | |
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The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain | |
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Phenomenology of Reading | |
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What Is Literature? | |
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Why Write? | |
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The Well Wrought Urn | |
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Chapter 11. The Heresy of Paraphrase | |
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The Formalist Critics | |
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The Intentional Fallacy | |
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The Affective Fallacy | |
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The Second Sex | |
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Chapter XI. Myth and Reality | |
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Tristes Tropiques | |
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Chapter 28. A Writing Lesson | |
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Performative Utterances | |
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The Archetypes of Literature | |
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Mythologies | |
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Soap-powders and Detergents | |
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The Brain of Einstein | |
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Photography and Electoral Appeal | |
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The Death of the Author | |
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From Work to Text | |
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A Letter on Art in Reply to Andre Daspre | |
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From Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses | |
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Semiology and Rhetoric | |
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The Return to Philology | |
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History and the Novel | |
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From Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory | |
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Marxism and Literature | |
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Part 1. Chapter 3. Literature | |
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The Wretched of the Earth | |
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from The Pitfalls of National Consciousness | |
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from On National Culture | |
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Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature | |
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From Chapter 3. What Is a Minor Literature? | |
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia | |
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from Introduction: Rhizome | |
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Defining the Postmodern | |
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Michel Foucault (1926-1984) | |
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What Is an Author? | |
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison | |
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The Carceral | |
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1, An Introduction | |
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Part Two: The Repressive Hypothesis | |
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The Incitement to Discourse | |
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The Perverse Implantation | |
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From Truth and Power | |
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Interaction between Text and Reader | |
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Objective Interpretation | |
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The Historical Text as Literary Artifact | |
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from The Precession of Simulacra | |
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society | |
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from Part II. Social Structures of the Public Sphere | |
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Modernity--An Incomplete Project | |
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From Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence | |
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An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness | |
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The Anxiety of Influence | |
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Introduction. A Meditation upon Priority, and a Synopsis | |
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Interchapter. A Manifesto for Antithetical Criticism | |
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste | |
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Introduction | |
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Of Grammatology | |
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Exergue | |
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The Exorbitant. Question of Method | |
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Dissemination | |
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Plato's Pharmacy | |
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Pharmacia | |
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The Father of Logos | |
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The Pharmakon | |
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The Pharmakeus | |
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From 9. Play: From the Pharmakon to the Letter and from Blindness to the Supplement | |
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from The Shaping of a Canon: U.S. Fiction, 1960-1975 | |
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Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies | |
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Contingencies of Value | |
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Chapter 3. Contingencies of Value | |
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The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act | |
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Preface | |
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from Chapter 1. On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act | |
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Postmodernism and Consumer Society | |
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Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance | |
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from Chapter 1. Postindian Warriors | |
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Orientalism | |
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Introduction | |
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One Is Not Born a Woman | |
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination | |
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from Chapter 2. Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship | |
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The Laugh of the Medusa | |
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Taking Cover in Coverage | |
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Interpreting the Variorum | |
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On the Abolition of the English Department | |
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Structural Analysis of Narrative | |
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Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale | |
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Me and My Shadow | |
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Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism | |
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Revolution in Poetic Language | |
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from Part I. The Semiotic and the Symbolic | |
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Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema | |
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A Critique of Postcolonial Reason | |
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From Chapter 3. History | |
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[Can the Subaltern Speak?] | |
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza | |
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Chapter 7. La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness | |
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Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory | |
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Introduction | |
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Literary Theory: An Introduction | |
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from Chapter 1. The Rise of English | |
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Introduction to The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance | |
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The Race for Theory | |
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A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s | |
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Toward a Black Feminist Criticism | |
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from Melville's Fist: The Execution of Billy Budd | |
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What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Literary Criticism | |
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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body | |
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Chapter 5. The Body and the Reproduction of Feminity | |
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The Commitment to Theory | |
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Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body | |
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From Visualizing the Disabled Body: The Classical Nude and the Fragmented Torso | |
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Talking Black: Critical Signs of the Times | |
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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire | |
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from Introduction | |
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Epistemology of the Closet | |
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from Introduction: Axiomatic | |
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Subculture: The Meaning of Style | |
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Chapter 1. From Culture to Hegemony | |
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Against Theory | |
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Postmodern Blackness | |
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Gender Trouble | |
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from Preface | |
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from Chapter 3. Subversive Bodily Acts | |
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You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media | |
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Selected Bibliography of Theory and Criticism | |
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Theory and Criticism Bibliographies | |
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Anthologies of Theory and Criticism | |
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Histories of Criticism and Theory | |
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Glossaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks | |
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Introductions and Guides | |
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Modern and Contemporary Critical Schools and Movements | |
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Permissions Acknowledgments | |
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Author/Title Index | |
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Subject Index | |