Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS iii
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
4. A NOTE ON REFERENCES ix
5. FOREWORD x
6. INTRODUCTION: BORDER CROSSINGS, OR CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE TEXTUAL KIND 1
7. PART 1. STRUCTURALISM
8. INTRODUCTION: NEVER STANDING STILL, OR IS ROLAND BARTHES STRUCTURALISM? 15
9. 1.1. FROM SCIENCE TO LITERATURE 24
10. 1.2. FROM S/Z 30
11. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 42
12. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY 44
13. PART 2. FEMINISM
14. INTRODUCTION: WILL THE REAL FEMINIST THEORY PLEASE STAND UP? 49
15. 2.1. MEDUSA'S VOICE: MALE HYSTERIA IN THE BOSTONIANS 59
16. 2.2. SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER AND THE COUNTERPLOT OF LESBIAN FICTION 72
17. 2.3. MYSELF AND M/OTHERS: COLETTE, WILDE AND DUCHAMP 84
18. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 93
19. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY 95
20. PART 3. MARXIST LITERARY THEORIES
21. INTRODUCTION: THE POLITICS OF LITERATURE 99
22. 3.1. FROM TOWARDS A REVOLUTIONARY CRITICISM 109
23. 3.2. MARXISM AND LITERATURE 116
24. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 132
25. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY 134
26. PART 4. READER-RESPONSE THEORIES
27. INTRODUCTION: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS READER-RESPONSE THEORY 139
28. 4.1. DESCRIBING POETIC STRUCTURES: TWO APPROACHES TO BAUDELAIRE'S 'LES CHATS' 149
29. 4.2. THE POETIC TEXT WITHIN THE CHANGE OF HORIZONS OF READING: THE EXAMPLE OF BAUDELAIRE'S 'SPLEEN II' 162
30. 4.3. THE IMAGINARY 179
31. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 195
32. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY 197
33. PART 5. PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM
34. INTRODUCTION: SCREENING THE OTHER 201
35. 5.1. DIFFERENCE 211
36. 5.2. USING LACAN: READING TO THE LIGHTHOUSE 233
37. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 261
38. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY 263
39. PART 6. DECONSTRUCTION
40. INTRODUCTION: WHAT REMAINS UNREAD 267
41. 6.1. LETTER TO A JAPANESE FRIEND 282
42. 6.2. THOMAS HARDY, JACQUES DERRIDA AND THE 'DISLOCATION OF SOULS' 288
43. 6.3. ON NOT READING: DERRIDA AND BECKETT 298
44. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 310
45. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY 312
46. PART 7. POSTSTRUCTURALISM
47. INTRODUCTION: CRITICISM AND CONCEIT 317
48. 7.1. SEMIOLOGY AND RHETORIC 328
49. 7.2. SCORING LITERATURE 342
50. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 355
51. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY 356
52. PART 8. POSTMODERNISM
53. INTRODUCTION: POSTMODERNISM? NOT REPRESENTING POSTMODERNISM 359
54. 8.1. ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, WHAT IS THE POSTMODERN? 371
55. 8.2. SIMULACRA AND SIMULATIONS 381
56. 8.3. NOSTALGIA FOR THE PRESENT 395
57. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 410
58. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY 412
59. PART 9. NEW HISTORICISM
60. INTRODUCTION: HISTORY, POWER AND POLITICS IN THE LITERARY ARTIFACT 417
61. 9.1. MARXISM AND THE NEW HISTORICISM 428
62. 9.2. 'SHAPING FANTASIES': FIGURATIONS OF GENDER AND POWER IN ELIZABETHAN CULTURE 439
63. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 457
64. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY 459
65. PART 10. POSTCOLONIAL THEORY
66. INTRODUCTION: THE DIFFICULTY OF DIFFERENCE 463
67. 10.1. OF MIMICRY AND MAN: THE AMBIVALENCE OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE 474
68. 10.2. LOAFERS AND STORY-TELLERS 481
69. 10.3. FILM AS ETHNOGRAPHY; OR, TRANSLATION BETWEEN CULTURES IN THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD 499
70. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 517
71. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY 519
72. PART 11. GAY STUDIES/QUEER THEORY
73. INTRODUCTION: WORKS ON THE WILD(E) SIDE - PERFORMING, TRANSGRESSING, QUEERING 525
74. 11.1. QUEER AND NOW 537
75. 11.2. POST/MODERN: ON THE GAY SENSIBILITY, OR THE PERVERT'S REVENGE ON AUTHENTICITY - WILDE, GENET, ORTON, AND OTHERS 553
76. 11.3. CRITICALLY QUEER 570
77. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 587
78. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY 589
79. PART 12. CULTURAL STUDIES
80. INTRODUCTION: THEORISING CULTURE, READING OURSELVES 593
81. 12.1. CULTURAL STUDIES AND READING 604
82. 12.2. CITIES WITHOUT MAPS 611
83. 12.3. ART AS CULTURAL PRODUCTION 626
84. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 642
85. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY 644
86. WORKS CITED 647
87. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 661
88. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 665
89. INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 669