All articles in Modern Criticism and Theory, ed. David Lodge and Nigel Wood, 3rd ed. (Harlow: Longman, 2008):
- Roman Jakobson, ‘Linguistics and poetics’ and ‘The metaphoric and metonymic poles’
- Virginia Woolf, ‘Chapter Two of A Room of One’s Own’
- Simone de Beauvoir, ‘Myth and reality, and Woman’s situation and character’ (from The Second Sex)
- Jacques Derrida, ‘Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences’
- Mikhail Bakhtin, ‘From the prehistory of novelistic discourse’
- E.D. Hirsch, Jf. ‘In defence of the author’ (from Validity in Interpretation)
- Michel Foucault, ‘What is an author?’
- Wolfgang Iser, ‘The reading process: a phenomenological approach
- Roland Barthes, ‘The Death of the author’
- Raymond Williams, ‘Country and City’ (from The Country and the City)
- Edward Said, ‘Crisis’ [in orientalism]
- Stanley Fish, ‘Interpreting the Variorum’
- J. Hillis Miller, ‘The critic as host’
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, ‘The beast in the closet’
- Fredric Jameson, ‘Postmodernism and consumer society’
- Stephen Greenblatt, ‘The circulation of social energy’
- Jerome McGann, ‘The textual condition’
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Questions of multiculturalism, and The post-colonial critic’
- Judith Butler, ‘Critically queer’ (from Bodies That Matter)
- Terry Eagleton, ‘The rise and fall of theory’ (from After Theory)