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SACHIN KETKAR’S ANTHOLOGY OF LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY

A SHORT READING LIST FOR LITERARY THEORY

Some Anthologies for Literary Theory

1) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin eds. The Post-colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1995

2) Das and Mohanty, ed. Literary Criticism, A Reading, OUP, 1985

3) David Lodge with Nigel Wood, ed. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, Second Edition, New Delhi: Pearson Education Pvt Ltd., ( Fourth Reprint) 2005

4) David Lodge, ed. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader. London and New York: Longman, 1972

5) John Storey. Ed. What is Cultural Studies? A Reader. London: Arnold, 1996.

6) Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, eds. Literary Theory: An Anthology. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1998; India reprint 2002 is distributed by Atlantic Publishers and Distributors

7) K M Newton, Twentieth Century Literary Theory: A Reader, Houndmills etc: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1997

8) Padmini Mongia ed. Contemporary Post Colonial Theory: A Reader. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 1997

9) Paul Bowman, ed. Interrogating Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Practice. London/Sterling, VI: Pluto Press, 2003.

10) Peter Collier and Helga Geyer-Ryan. Ed. Literary Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity, 1990

11) Raman Selden, ed. The Theory of Criticism: From Plato to the Present. London and New York: Longman, 1988.

12) Simon During, ed. The Cultural Studies Reader. Second Edition. London/New York: Routledge, 1999.

13) Vincent B. Leitch et. Al. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, London and NY: WW Norton and Co, 2001

14) VS Seturaman, ed. Contemporary Criticism: An Anthology, Macmillan, 1989

15) VS Seturaman, ed. Indian Aesthetics: An Introduction, Chennai: Macmillan India Ltd., 1992

Some Important Books on Literary Theory

1. Aijaz Ahmad. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1992.

2. Anthony Easthope, Poetry as Discourse. London and New York: Methuen & Co., 1983

3. Anthony Easthope, Literary into Cultural Studies. London/New York: Routledge, 1991.

4. Catherine Belsey, and Jane Moore, eds. The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism

5. David Daiches, Critical Approaches to Literature, second edition, OL, 1989

6. Derek Attridge ed. Acts of Literature, Jacques Derrida, N.Y, London, Routledge, 1992

7. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, London, 1991

8. Guerin et al, ed. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Fourth Ed., Oxford University Press, 1999

9. Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, OUP, New York, 1973

10. Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and the Schools of the Ages, Harcourt Brace and Co., New York, 1994

11. Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Manchester, 1984

12. John Brannigan. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, and London: Macmillan Press Ltd.1998

13. Jonathan Culler, Framing the Sign: Criticism, its Institutions. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988

14. ____________, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, 1997

15. ____________, Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., 1975

16. ______________, The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., 1981

17. Northrop Frye. The Anatomy of Criticism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957

18. MH Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms, seventh ed., Harcourt India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2000

19. Paul de Man, Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism, London: OUP, 1971

20. ___________ Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke and Proust, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979

21. Rene Wellek and Austin Warren, Theory of Literature, Penguin Books, 1963

22. Richard Appignanesi and Chris Garrat et. Al, Introducing Postmodernism, Icon Books, UK, 1995

23. Susan Bassnett, Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. Oxford UK and Cambridge USA: Blackwell, 1993

24. Wimsatt Jr. and Brooks, Literary Criticism: A Short History, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. 1957