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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction: Falling into Theory | |
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Why We Read: The University, the Humanities, and the Province of Literature | |
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What We Have Loved, Others Will Love | |
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Disliking Books at an Early Age | |
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The Rise of English | |
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Introduction to Masks of Conquest | |
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The "Banking" Concept of Education | |
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Toward a Revolutionary Feminist Pedagogy | |
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The New Advocacy and the Old | |
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The Function of English at the Present Time | |
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Teaching Culture | |
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The Demise of Disciplinary Authority | |
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A Fortunate Fall? | |
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What We Read: The Literary Canon and the Curriculum after the Culture Wars | |
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Masterpiece Theater: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation | |
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Contingencies of Value | |
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Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon | |
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What Is a Minor Literature? | |
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Canon-Formation, Literary History, and the Afro-American Tradition: From the Seen to the Told | |
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From Epistemology of the Closet | |
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The Politics of Knowledge | |
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Introduction to A Feeling for Books | |
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Telling Our Story about Teaching Literature | |
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The Canon as Cultural Capital | |
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Elegiac Conclusion | |
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How We Read: Interpretive Communities and Literary Meaning | |
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The Death of the Author | |
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Actual Reader and Authorial Reader | |
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How to Recognize a Poem When You See One | |
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Do We Write the Text We Read? | |
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The Female Swerve | |
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From Sexual/Textual Politics | |
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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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Black Matter(s) | |
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An Image of Africa | |
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The Frontier on Which Heart of Darkness Stands | |
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Imperialism and Sexual Difference | |
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Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, and for What? | |
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The Literary Imagination | |
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Wanted Dead or Alive: Browning's Historicism | |
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Reclaiming the Aesthetic | |
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Aesthetics and the Literal Imagination | |
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Appendix | |
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Index | |