| Plato: |
Ion
Republic (Books III and X)
|
| Aristotle: |
Poetics |
Sidney:
|
An Apology for Poetry |
| Dryden: |
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy |
Pope:
|
An Essay on Criticism |
| Johnson: |
"Preface to Shakespeare" |
| Wordsworth: |
"Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads" |
| Coleridge: |
Biographia Literaria sections of Chapters XII, XIII, and XIV |
Shelley:
|
A Defense of Poetry |
| Arnold: |
The Study of Poetry |
| Taine: |
"Introduction to History of English Literature" |
| Freud: |
"Creative Writers and Daydreaming" |
| Hulme: |
"Romanticism and Classicism"
|
| Eliot: |
"Tradition and the Individual Talent"
"The Function
of Criticism at the Present Time"
|
| Auerbach: |
Mimesis |
| Wimsatt and Beardsley: |
"The Intentional Fallacy" |
| Brooks: |
"The Heresy of Paraphrase" from The Well Wrought Urn |
| Frye: |
The Anatomy of Criticism |
| Eagleton: |
Marxism and Literary Criticism |
| Hirsch: |
Validity in Interpretation |
| Todorov: |
Mikhail Bakhtin: Dialogical Principle |
| Barthes: |
"The Structuralist Activity" |
| Showalter: |
"Toward a Feminist Poetics” |
| Kolodny: |
"Dancing through the Minefield" |
| Derrida: |
"Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human
Sciences" |
| Kristeva: |
"The Bounded Text" |
| Christian: |
Race for Theory |
| Booth: |
The Rhetoric of Fiction
The Company We Keep |
