Category: Literary Theory and Criticism

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  • Rich, Adrienne

    Assigned: Rich, Adrienne. From “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” (1515-34). Also read the editors’ introduction (1513-15). From “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” (1980/1986) Foreword (1983) 1. On 1515-17 (“I want...

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  • Ross, Andrew

    Assigned: Ross, Andrew. From The Mental Labor Problem (2413-31). Also read the editors’ introduction (2410-12). From The Mental Labor Problem (2000/2004) Introductory Paragraph and The Cultural Discount 1. On 2412-14...

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  • Rubin, Gayle

    Assigned: Rubin, Gayle. From Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality,Chapter I. “The Sex Wars”; from II. “Sexual Thoughts,” from VI. “The Limits of Feminism”...

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  • Said, Edward

    Assigned: Said, Edward. “Introduction” from Orientalism (1783-1805); from Culture and Imperialism, from Chapter Two. Consolidated Vision” (1805-21). Also read the editors’ introduction (1780-83). From Orientalism (1978) Introduction Section I 1....

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  • Schiller, Friedrich

    Assigned: Schiller, Friedrich von. From On the Aesthetic Education of Man, Letters 2, 6, 9 (494-503). Also read the editors’ introduction (492-94). From On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795)...

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  • Schleiermacher, Friedrich

    Assigned: Schleiermacher, Friedrich. From Hermeneutics, from “Outline of the 1819 Lectures,” Introduction (533-43); Part Two. “The Technical Interpretation” (543-45). Also read the editors’ introduction (531-33). From Hermeneutics (1819/1828, 1959/1974)                             From...

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  • Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

    Assigned: Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. From Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, from “Introduction,” 1. Homosocial Desire (2279-83); from Epistemology of the Closet, from “Introduction: Axiomatic” (2283-90). Also read...

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  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe

    Assigned: Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “A Defence of Poetry” (601-619). Also read the editors’ introduction (598-600). “A Defence of Poetry” (1821/1840) 1. On 601-02 (“Poetry is ever accompanied with…”), Percy Bysshe...

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  • Sidney, Sir Philip

    Assigned: Sidney, Sir Philip. “The Defence of Poesy” (262-91). Also read the editors’ introduction (260-62). “The Defence of Poesy” (1595) 1. On 262 (“When the right virtuous Edward Wotton…”), Sir...

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