Resources in Critical Theory
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Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem or essays from The Portable Hannah Arendt
Aristotle. Poetics
Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis
Austin, J.L. How to do Things with Words
Bakhtin, Mikhail. Rabelais & His World
Barthes, Roland. S/Z.
– Le Plaisir du texte.
Bataille, Georges. La littérature et le mal
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction." In Illuminations.
Benveniste, Émile. Essays on Pronouns and verb tenses from Problèmes de linguistique générale I
Curtius, E.R., European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
Bible (yes): First 5 books of Old Testament, Song of Solomon, Book of Ruth, Isaiah; New Testament: 4 Gospels, Acts. Use the RSV if you are reading it in English.
Brooks, Cleanth. The Well-Wrought Urn
Deleuze et Guattari, Anti-Oedipe
De Man "Rhetoric of Temporality" from Blindness and Insight
Derrida, Jacques. "Structure, signe, jeu dans les sciences humaines." In L'Écriture et la différance.
– "La Pharmacie de Platon" & "La Double Séance." In Dissémination
Empson, William. Seven Types of Ambiguity
Foucault, Michel. Les Mots et les choses.
– Histoire de la sexualité, vol. 1
– "What is an Author?" In Language, Counter-memory, Praxis.
Freud, S. Interpretation of Dreams
– Three Case Studies (Ratman, Schreber, Wolfman)
– Civilization and its discontents.
Genette, Gérard. Selected essays from Figures I & II; essay on Proust from Figures III
Girard, René. Mensonge romantique, vérité romanesque.
Goldmann, Lucien. Le Dieu caché
Hämburger, Käte. The Logic of Literature
Hegel, G. Master-Slave dialectic from the beginning of the Phenomenology; also Kojève on Hegel
Heidegger, Martin. Essays from Basic Writings (Harper and Row)
Jakobson, Roman. Essay on shifters in Essais de linguistique générale.
Kristeva, Julia. Essays from The Kristeva Reader or The Portable Kristeva
Lacan, Jacques. "Séminaire sur la lettre volée." In Écrits
Laplanche, Jean. Vie et Mort en psychanalyse
– & Pontalis, J.B., Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse (reference work)
Lessing, Gotthold. Laocoön
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes tropiques; several essays from Structural Anthrolpology I or Le Cru et le cuit.
Lukács, Georg. The Historical Novel.
Lyotard, Jean-François. Essays from Toward the Postmodern and The Lyotard Reader
Marin, Louis. Essay on Disneyland from Utopiques; several essays from Études sémiologiques, Le Récit est un piège and/or Food for Thought
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Le Visible et l'invisible
Plato. Republic, Apology, Symposium
Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale
Richard, Jean-Pierre. Littérature et sensation
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Qu'est-ce que c'est que la littérature?
Serres, Michel. Selected essays from Hermes I-IV, Parasite
Shklovsky, Victor. Selections from Theory of Prose
Starobinski, Jean. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: La Transparence et l'obstacle
Todorov, Tzvetan. The Fantastic
Watt, Ian The Rise of the Novel
Weinrich, Harald. Le Temps