The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Vincent B. Leitch et al (eds)

Double Agent: The Critic and Society Morris Dickstein

The Theory Mess: Deconstruction in Eclipse Herman Rapaport

10 Who Did

Aristotle (384-322 BC)
The Poetics

Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430)
The Book of the City of Ladies

G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831)
Introduction to the Philosophy of Fine Arts

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Tradition and the Individual Talent"

Roman Jakobson (1896-1982)
From "Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances"

Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)
"An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness"

Stuart Hall (b. 1932)
"Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies"

Helene Cixous (b. 1937)
"The Laugh of the Medusa"

Stanley Fish (b. 1938)
"Interpreting the Variorum"

Homi K. Bhabha (b. 1949)
"The Commitment to Theory"

10 Who Didn't

John of Salisbury (c. 1110-80)
From Metalogicon

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78)
From "Essay on the Origin of Language"

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59)
"The Minute on Indian Education"

I. A. Richards (1893-1979)
Poetries and Sciences

F. R. Leavis (1895-1978)
From The Great Tradition

C. L. R. James (1901-89)
"Popular Art and Cultural Tradition"

Richard Rorty (b. 1931)
"Professionalized Philosophy and Transcendentalist Culture"

Jerome J. McGann (b. 1937)
From "Keats and the Historical Method in Literary Criticism"

Teresa de Lauretis (b. 1938)
"Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation"

Aijaz Ahmad (b. 1945)
From In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures

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