Includes Index

Introduction: Formalisms / Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan --
Introduction to the formal method / Boris Eichenbaum --
Art as technique / Viktor Shklovsky --
Thematics / Boris Tomashevsky --
Morphology of the folktale / V. Propp --
Discourse in the novel / Mikhail Bakhtin --
Rabelais and his world / Mikhail Bakhtin --
The formalist critics / Cleanth Brooks --
The language of paradox / Cleanth Brooks --
The canonization / John Donne --
Introduction: The linguistic foundation / Jonathan Culler --
Course in general linguistics / Ferdinand de Saussure --
Two aspects of language / Roman Jakobson --
How to do things with words / J.L. Austin --
The structural study of myth / Claude Lévi-Strauss --
Introduction: Strangers to ourselves: psychoanalysis / Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan --
The interpretation of dreams / Sigmund Freud --
On narcissism / Sigmund Freud --
The uncanny / Sigmund Freud --
Beyond the pleasure principle / Sigmund Freud --
Group psychology and the analysis of the ego / Sigmund Freud --
The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience / Jacques Lacan --
The symbolic order (from The function and field of speech and language in psychoanalysis) / Jacques Lacan --
The instance of the letter in the unconscious or reason since Freud / Jacques Lacan --
The anti-Oedipus / Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari --
The psychological birth of the human infant / Margaret Mahler --
Two primary configurations of psychopathology / Sidney J. Blatt, Shula Shichman --
Triangular desire / René Girard --
Introduction: Starting with zero: basic Marxism / Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan --
Dialectics (from The science of logic) / G.W.F. Hegel --
Grundrisse / Karl Marx --
The German ideology / Karl Marx --
The manifesto of the communist party / Karl Marx --
Wage labor and capital / Karl Marx --
Capital / Karl Marx --
Hegemony (from The formation of the intellectuals) / Antonio Gramsci --
Marxism and the philosophy of language / V.N. Vološinov --
The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin --
The historical novel / Georg Lukács --
Ideology and ideological state apparatuses / Louis Althusser --
Culture, ideology, interpellation / John Fiske --
The sublime object of ideology / Slavoj Žižek --
White guys happiest, study finds / Ronald Kotulak --
Nike told of worker abuses in Vietnam factories / Verena Dobnik --
Introduction: The class of 1968 --
post-structuralism par lui-mem̂e / Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan --
On truth and lying in an extra-moral sense / Friedrich Nietzsche --
The will to power / Friedrich Nietzsche --
Being and time / Martin Heidegger --
Identity and difference / Martin Heidegger --
Heterology / George Bataille --
The order of things / Michel Foucault --
Différence / Jacques Derrida --
The system of objects / Jean Baudrillard --
The archeology of knowledge / Michel Foucault --
Plato's pharmacy / Jacques Derrida --
Revolution in poetic language / Julia Kristeva --
Discipline and punish / Michel Foucault --
Symbolic exchange and death / Jean Baudrillard --
The postmodern condition / Jean-François Lyotard --
A thousand plateaus / Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari --
Introduction: Feminist paradigms / Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan --
The traffic in women: notes on the political economy of sex / Gayle Rubin --
On the politics of literature / Judith Fetterley --
The power of discourse and the subordination of the feminine / Luce Irigaray --
Commodities amongst themselves / Luce Irigaray --
Sorties / Hélène Cixous --
Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey --
The madwoman in the attic / Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar --
The voice of the shuttle is ours / Patricia Klindienst --
Age, race, class, and sex: women redefining difference / Audre Lorde --
Notes toward a politics of location / Adrienne Rich --
Representation, reproduction, and women's place in language / Margaret Homans --
Mama's baby, papa's maybe: an American grammar book / Hortense Spillers --
Introduction: Contingencies of gender / Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan --
Sexual transformation (from Thinking sex: notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality) / Gayle Rubin --
The history of sexuality / Michel Foucault --
Introduction to Guy Hocquengham's Homosexual desire / Jeffrey Weeks --
Between men / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick --
The technology of gender / Teresa de Lauretis --
Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler --
Homographesis / Lee Edelman --
A small boy and others: sexual disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth Anger, and David Lynch / Michael Moon --
F2M: the making of female masculinity / Judith Halberstam --
Heterosexuality as a compromise formation / Nancy Chodorow --
Introduction: Professing the renaissance: the poetics and politics of culture / Louis Montrose --
Invisible bullets / Stephen Greenblatt --
Cultural materialism, Othello, and the politics of plausibility / Alan Sinfield --
Melville, Delany, and new world slavery / Eric Sundquist --
Introduction: English without shadows, literature on a world scale / Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan --
The rule of darkness / Patrick Brantlinger --
The souls of black folk / W.E.B, . DuBois --
Orientalism / Edward Said --
Borderlands/La frontera / Gloria Anzaldua --
The blackness of blackness: a critique on the sign and the signifying monkey / Henry Louis Gates --
Playing in the dark / Toni Morrison --
The location of culture / Homi Bhabha --
Topologies of nativism / Anthony Appiah --
Mandarin ducks and butterflies: an exercise in popular readings / Rey Chow --
The black Atlantic / Paul Gilroy --
The repeating island / Antonio Benítez-Rojo --
Migratory subjectivities / Carole Boyce Davies --
A small place / Jamaica Kincaid --
Introduction: The politics of culture / Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan --
Distinction / Pierre Bourdieu --
The culture industry as mass deception / Max Horkhiemer, Theodor Adorno --
Reading the romance / Janice Radway --
The rediscovery of ideology / Stuart Hall --
Subculture: the meaning of style / Dick Hebdige --
Punk and history / Malcolm McLaren --
All-consuming images: the politics of style in contemporary culture / Stuart Ewen --
Television culture / John Fiske --
Material girl: the effacements of postmodern culture / Susan Bordo.