intro to lit theory

poesizing:

1. Authorship: Barthes, Death of the Author; Foucault, What is an Author?
2. Formalism: Eichenbaum, The Theory of the “Formal Method”;  Brooks, from The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
3. Structuralism: Saussure, Course in General Linguistics ; Barthes, from Mythologies
4. Psychoanalysis: Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; Lacan, The Mirror Stage & The Significance of the Phallus
5. Ideology: Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses; Foucault, Truth and Power
6. Feminism & Queer: Sedgwick, from Between Men; Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa; Wittig, One Is Not Born a Woman; Butler, Gender Trouble
7. Deconstruction: Derrida, from Of Grammatology;
8. Postcolonial: Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth; Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?
9. Cultural Materialism: Adorno & Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception; Williams, Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory  

these are about 2/3 of the readings for my intro to lit theory course, if you’ve ever wondered what one studies on such courses, the links lead to free pdfs