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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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New Criticism | |
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How to Interpret: Key Concepts from New Criticism | |
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Historicizing the New Criticism: Rethinking Literary Unity | |
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The Intentional Fallacy and the Affective Fallacy | |
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How to Interpret: A New Critical Example | |
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Structuralism | |
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Structuralism in Cultural and Literary Studies | |
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The Structuralist Study of Narrative: Narratology | |
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Narrative Syntax, Metaphor and Metonymy | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Writing, Speech, and Differance | |
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Deconstruction beyond Derrida | |
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Deconstruction, Essentialism, and Identity | |
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How to Interpret: More Deconstructive Examples | |
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Psychoanalysis | |
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The Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Mind | |
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How to Interpret: Models of Psychoanalytic Interpretation | |
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From the Interpretation of Dreams to the Interpretation of Literature | |
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Feminism | |
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Early Feminist Criticism | |
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Sex and Gender | |
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Feminisms | |
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How to Interpret: Feminist Examples | |
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Feminism and Visual Pleasure | |
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Queer Studies | |
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How to Interpret: A Queer Studies Example | |
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Queer Studies and History | |
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Outing: Writers, Characters, and the Literary Closet | |
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Homosociality and Heterosexual PanicHow to Interpret: Another Queer Studies Example | |
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Marxism | |
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Contemporary Marxism, Ideology, and Agency | |
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How to Interpret: Marxist Examples | |
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Historicism and Cultural Studies | |
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New Historicism | |
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Michel FoucaultCultural Studies | |
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How to Interpret: Cultural Studies, Historicism, and Literature | |
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Postcolonial and Race Studies | |
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Postcolonialism | |
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From Orientalism to Deconstruction | |
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Race Studies: Postcolonial Theory and the Construction of Race | |
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How to Interpret: Postcolonial and Race Studies Examples | |
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Reader Response | |
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Afterword | |
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Works Cited | |
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Further Reading | |
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Index | |