Table of Contents
Introduction 1
1 Hamburg Dramaturgy (1769) 8G. E. Lessing
2 Of the Standard of Taste (1777) 32David Hume
3 Critique of Judgment (1790) 45Immanuel Kant
4 On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795) 65Friedrich Schiller
5 On the Study of Greek Poetry (1797) and Philosophical Fragments (1798–1800) 74Friedrich Schlegel
6 Lectures on Dramatic Art (1811) 88A. W. Schlegel
7 Preface to Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems (1802) 104William Wordsworth
8 Biographia Literaria (1817) 124Samuel Taylor Coleridge
9 Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art (1835) 134G. W. F. Hegel
10 The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1864) 148Matthew Arnold
11 The Birth of Tragedy (1872) 166Friedrich Nietzsche
12 The Art of Fiction (1884) 188Henry James
13 Crisis of Verse (1897) 202Stéphane Mallarmé
14 Art as Technique (1917) 210Viktor Shklovsky
15 The Uncanny (1919) 226Sigmund Freud
16 Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919) and The Function of Criticism (1923) 252T. S. Eliot
17 A Room of One’s Own (1929) 265Virginia Woolf
18 The Storyteller (1936): Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov 282Walter Benjamin
19 Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote 299Jorge Luis Borges
20 What is Literature? (1948) 306Jean-Paul Sartre
21 Literature and the Right to Death (1948) 320Maurice Blanchot
22 Language (1950) 349Martin Heidegger
23 Trying to Understand Endgame (1958) 363Theodor W. Adorno
24 The Meridian (1960) 389Paul Celan
25 What is an Author? (1969) 398Michel Foucault
26 Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays (1975) 411Hélène Cixous
27 What is a Minor Literature? (1975) 426Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
28 Literature and Life (1993) 437Gilles Deleuze
29 The Literary Absolute (1978) 441Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy
30 Orientalism (1978) 459Edward W. Said
31 Autobiography as De-facement (1979) 479Paul de Man
32 Che cos’è la poesia? (1988) and Before the Law (1982) 489Jacques Derrida
33 Signs Taken for Wonders (1986): Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 1817 519Homi K. Bhabha
34 What is the History of Literature? (1997) 538Stephen Greenblatt
35 A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999) 558Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
36 Literature for the Planet (2001) 576Wai Chee Dimock
37 The Politics of Literature (2003) 596Jacques Rancière
38 Close Reading in an Age of Global Writing (2013) 609Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Index 621