Literary theory:a guide for the perplexed

　　1.What is 'Literary Theory?'
　　2.Humanist Literary Theory
　　 Plato
　　 Aristotle
　　 Horace
　　 Sir Philip Sidney
　　 Sir Francis Bacon
　　 Joseph Addison
　　 Edmund Burke
　　 Samuel Johnson
　　 Sir Joshua Reynolds
　　 William Wordsworth
　　 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
　　 John Keats
　　 Edgar Allan Poe
　　 Matthew Arnold
　　3.Structuralism
　　 Ferdinand de Saussure
　　 Claude Levi-Strauss and 'The Structural Study of Myth'
　　 Interlude: Humanism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism
　　4.Deconstruction
　　 Binary Opposition
　　 The Role of the Center
　　 Bricolage
　　5.Psychoanalysis
　　 Sigmund Freud
　　 Jacques Lacan
　　 Interlude: 'Self' to 'Subject'
　　6.Feminism
　　 'Pre-poststructuralist' Feminist Literary Theory
　　 Poststructuralist Feminist Literary Theory
　　 Helene Cixous and 'The Laugh of the Medusa'
　　 Luce Irigaray and 'This Sex Which Is Not One'
　　7.Queer Theory
　　 Flexible Sexuality?
　　 Gay/Lesbian Studies
　　 Interlude: History to Historicism
　　 Humanist History
　　 New Historicism
　　8.Ideology and Discourse
　　 Marxist Theory: a Few Basics
　　 Louis Althusser and Ideology
　　 Mikhail Bakhtin and 'Discourse in the Novel'
　　 Michel Foucault: Discourse, Power/Knowledge,and the Author Function
　　9.Race and Postcolonialism
　　 Colonialism and 'English'
　　 Henry Louis Gates, Jr and 'The Signifying Monkey'
　　 Postcolonialism and Orientalism
　　 Homi Bhaba and 'The Location of Culture'
　　 Gloria Anzaldua and 'Borderlands/La Frontera'
　　10.Postmodernism
　　 Modernity
　　 Jean Baudrillard
　　 Jean-Francois Lyotard
　　 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
　　 Coda: What Now?
　　Index