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The Critical Tradition: Shorter Edition
Third Edition| ©2016 David H. Richter
This compact, portable edition of the bestselling anthology of literary criticism presents major documents from Plato to the present. Chronologically arranged, classic texts and a broad survey of contemporary theoretical movements combine with strong editorial support praised for its effectiveness i...
This compact, portable edition of the bestselling anthology of literary criticism presents major documents from Plato to the present. Chronologically arranged, classic texts and a broad survey of contemporary theoretical movements combine with strong editorial support praised for its effectiveness in introducing students to these challenging readings.
For instructors seeking a text that is more affordable and compact than other chronologically comprehensive (hardback) anthologies, and more representative of the sweep of literary criticism than other paperback anthologies, The Critical Tradition, Shorter Third Edition, delivers. Students will appreciate having a smaller, less expensive text that facilitates their learning of literary theory and criticism.
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A shorter version of the “indispensable anthology for introducing a new generation of students” to literary criticism and theory.
This compact, portable edition of the bestselling anthology of literary criticism presents major documents from Plato to the present. Chronologically arranged, classic texts and a broad survey of contemporary theoretical movements combine with strong editorial support praised for its effectiveness in introducing students to these challenging readings.
For instructors seeking a text that is more affordable and compact than other chronologically comprehensive (hardback) anthologies, and more representative of the sweep of literary criticism than other paperback anthologies, The Critical Tradition, Shorter Third Edition, delivers. Students will appreciate having a smaller, less expensive text that facilitates their learning of literary theory and criticism.Features
More portable and affordable than other volumes on the market, without sacrificing scope. With a third to a half of the selections found in comprehensive hardback competitors, the shorter Critical Tradition still offers an impressive range of more than 90 readings from Plato to the present—effectively the most frequently assigned selections in the canon of criticism. The text stands apart from similar offerings in paperback, as it represents the whole tradition of literary criticism and theory.An indispensable selection of classic texts. Part One is a chronologically arranged anthology spanning classical times to the mid-twentieth century, with 38 diverse readings from Plato and Aristotle to Karl Marx, W.E.B. DuBois, Simone de Beauvoir and Susan Sontag.A wide-ranging survey of contemporary critical trends. Part Two includes 55 selections in 9 chapters that represent major critical movements from the twentieth century to the present, ranging from formalism and structuralism to gender studies and postcolonialism.Thorough, balanced, and classroom-proven editorial matter. Widely praised for its evenhanded and accessible tone, the editorial apparatus includes:
- A general introduction that surveys the history of criticism
- Headnotes to each selection that provide biographical and contextual background
- Chapter-opening essays that introduce contemporary critical schools and movements
- Glosses that explain difficult terms, allusions, and concepts
New to This Edition
The Critical Tradition is an indispensable anthology for anyone who wishes to introduce a new generation of students to the continuing relevance of the questions posed by literary criticism and theory.
--Pericles Lewis, Yale University/Yale NUS CollegeRichter is gifted at distilling massive amounts of information into engaging and relevant summaries—he is a great storyteller as well as an impressive scholar.
--Lisa Schnell, University of VermontThe book is amazingly thorough and excerpts very carefully when it does so. The introductions provide excellent overviews and the structure of the whole is effective.
--Ashley J. Cross, Manhattan CollegeFirst-rate: relevant, cogent, fair, and clear.
--David Halliburton, Stanford University"The chapter introductions are superb. I don’t see much way to improve these, and they are one of the main reasons I use the text."
--James Perrin Warren, Washington and Lee University

The Critical Tradition: Shorter Edition
Third Edition| ©2016
David H. Richter
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The Critical Tradition: Shorter Edition
Third Edition| 2016
David H. Richter
Table of Contents
PREFACEINTRODUCTIONPart One_____________________________________________________CLASSIC TEXTS IN LITERARY CRITICISMPlatoRepublic, Book XIonAristotleFrom PoeticsHoraceThe Art of PoetryLonginusOn the SublimeDante AlighieriFrom Letter to Can Grande della ScalaChristine de PisanFrom La Querelle de la RoseSir Philip SidneyAn Apology for PoetryAphra BehnAn Epistle to the Reader from The Dutch LoverAlexander PopeAn Essay on CriticismSamuel JohnsonThe Rambler, No. 4Rasselas, Chapter 10Immanuel KantFrom Critique of JudgmentMary WollstonecraftFrom A Vindication of the Rights of WomanWilliam WordsworthPreface to Lyrical BalladsSamuel Taylor ColeridgeFrom Biographia LiterariaPercy Bysshe ShelleyA Defence of Poetry
Karl MarxThe Alienation of Labor from Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844Consciousness Derived from Material Conditions from The German IdeologyOn Greek Art in Its Time from A Contribution to the Critique of Political EconomyMatthew ArnoldThe Function of Criticism at the Present TimeFriedrich NietzscheFrom The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of MusicHenry JamesThe Art of FictionSigmund Freud[Creative Writers and Daydreaming]Medusa’s HeadT. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual TalentCarl Gustav Jung The Principal ArchetypesW. E. B. Du Bois [On Double Consciousness] from The Souls of Black FolkCriteria of Negro ArtMikhail Bakhtin The Topic of the Speaking Person from Discourse in the NovelHeteroglossia in the Novel from Discourse in the NovelFrom Problems in Dostoevsky’s PoeticsVirginia Woolf [Shakespeare's Sister] from A Room of One’s Own [Austen – Brontë – Eliot] from A Room of One’s Own [The Androgynous Vision] from A Room of One’s Own Kenneth Burke Literature as Equipment for LivingSimone de Beauvoir Myths: Of Women in Five Authors Susan Sontag Against Interpretation Part Two______________________________________________________ CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN LITERARY CRITICISM1. Formalisms: Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Neo-AristotelianismVictor Shklovsky Art as TechniqueVladimir Propp [Fairy Tale Transformations]Cleanth Brooks Irony as a Principle of StructureR. S. CraneFrom The Critical Monism of Cleanth BrooksW. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley The Intentional Fallacy 2. Structuralism and DeconstructionFERDINAND DE SAUSSURE Nature of the Linguistic Sign [Binary Oppositions] Claude Lévi-Strauss The Structural Study of MythRoland Barthes From Work to TextThe Death of the AuthorMichel FoucaultWhat Is an Author?Jacques Derrida Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences3. Reader Response Theory Hans Robert Jauss [The Three Horizons for Reading] from Toward and Aesthetics of ReceptionWayne C. Booth Control of Distance in Jane Austen’s EmmaWolfgang Iser The Reading Process: A Phenomenological ApproachStanley Fish How to Recognize a Poem When You See OneJudith Fetterley Introduction to The Resisting ReaderLisa Zunshine Theory of Mind and Experimental Representations of Fictional Consciousness 4. Psychoanalytic Theory and CriticismJacques Lacan The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic ExperienceThe Meaning of the PhallusPeter Brooks Freud's MasterplotLaura Mulvey Visual Pleasure and Narrative CinemaSlavoj ŽižekCourtly Love, or, Woman as Thing 5. Marxist CriticismWalter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionMax Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception from Dialectic of EnlightenmentLouis Althusser From Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Raymond Williams From Marxism and LiteratureFredric Jameson From The Political Unconscious 6. New Historicism and Cultural StudiesHayden WhiteThe Historical Text as Literary ArtifactPierre Bourdieu From Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of TasteStuart HallCultural Studies: Two ParadigmsNancy ArmstrongSome Call It Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity Stephen Greenblatt Introduction to The Power of Forms in the English RenaissanceKing Lear and Harsnett's "Devil-Fiction" John GuilloryFrom Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation7. Feminist CriticismNina Baym Melodramas of Beset ManhoodSandra M. Gilbert and Susan GubarFrom Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of AuthorshipAnnette Kolodny Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary CriticismJulia KristevaWomen’s TimeBarbara Smith Toward a Black Feminist Criticism8. Gender Studies and Queer TheoryMichel Foucault From The History of SexualityMonique WittigOne Is Not Born a WomanHélène Cixous The Laugh of the MedusaGayle RubinFrom The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of SexEve Kosofsky Sedgwick From Between MenFrom Epistemology of the ClosetJudith Butler Imitation and Gender Insubordination9. Postcolonialism and Ethnic StudiesEdward W. Said From the Introduction to OrientalismBenedict AndersonThe Origins of National ConsciousnessGayatri Chakravorty SpivakThree Women’s Texts and a Critique of ImperialismGloria AnzalduaLa conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New ConsciousnessBarbara ChristianThe Race for TheoryHomi K. BhabhaSigns Taken for Wonders: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 1817Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Writing, "Race," and the Difference It MakesRey ChowThe Interruption of Referentiality: Poststructuralism and the Conundrum of Critical MulticulturalismALTERNATIVE CONTENTSINDEX Authors

David H. Richter
David H. Richter (PhD, University of Chicago) is professor and director of graduate studies in the English Department at Queens College and professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Richter publishes in the fields of narrative theory and eighteenth-century literature. Recent titles include The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel (1996); Ideology and Form in Eighteenth-Century Literature (1999); and The Critical Tradition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998), and he is currently at work on two critical books: a cultural history of true crime fiction and an analysis of difficulty in biblical narrative.

The Critical Tradition: Shorter Edition
Third Edition| 2016
David H. Richter
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