alternative contents
preface and acknowledgements
abbreviations of works cited
julian wolfreys: introduction
1 r. brandon kersbner: mikhail bakhtin and bakhtinian criticism
notes towards a reading of a portrait of the artist as a young man
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
2 k. m. newton: roland barthes and structuralist criticism
notes towards a reading of middlernarch
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
3 ruth robbins: will the real feminist theory please stand up?
notes towards readings of middlemarch and mrs dalloway
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
4 moyra haslett: the politics of literature: marxist literary theories
notes towards a reading of mrs dalloway
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
5 martin mcquillan: there is no such thing as reader-response theory
notes towards a reading of mrs dalloway
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
6 jill barker: the self, the other and the text: psychoanalytic criticism
notes towards a reading of the tempest
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
7 julian wolfreys: deconstruction, what remains unread
notes towards a reading of in memoriam a.h.h.
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
8 mark currie: criticism and creativity: poststructuralist theories
notes towards a reading of mrs dalloway
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
9 john brannigan: history, power and politics
in the literary artifact: new historicism
notes towards readings of the tempest and in memoriam a.h.h.
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
10 john brannigan: conflict and contradiction: cultural materialism
notes towards readings of the tempest and in memoriam a.h.h.
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
11 gall ching-liang low and julian wolfreys: postcolonialism
and the difficulty of difference
notes towards readings of the tempest and
the swimming-pool library
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
12 jane goldman and julian wolfreys: works on the wild(e) side -
performing, transgressing, queering: gay studies/queer theories
notes towards a reading of the swimming-pool library
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
13 kenneth womack: theorizing culture, reading ourselves:
cultural studies
notes towards readings of the swimming-pool library
and prospero's books
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
14 arkady plotnitsky: postmodernism and postmodernity."
literature, criticism, philosophy, culture
notes towards a reading of the tempest
questions for further consideration
annotated bibliography
supplementary bibliography
glossary
notes on contributors
index of proper names