[eBook Code] What is Literature? (eBook Code, 1st)

Introduction 1

1 Hamburg Dramaturgy (1769) 8
G. E. Lessing

2 Of the Standard of Taste (1777) 32
David Hume

3 Critique of Judgment (1790) 45
Immanuel Kant

4 On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795) 65
Friedrich Schiller

5 On the Study of Greek Poetry (1797) and Philosophical Fragments (1798–1800) 74
Friedrich Schlegel

6 Lectures on Dramatic Art (1811) 88
A. W. Schlegel

7 Preface to Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems (1802) 104
William Wordsworth

8 Biographia Literaria (1817) 124
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

9 Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art (1835) 134
G. W. F. Hegel

10 The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1864) 148
Matthew Arnold

11 The Birth of Tragedy (1872) 166
Friedrich Nietzsche

12 The Art of Fiction (1884) 188
Henry James

13 Crisis of Verse (1897) 202
Stéphane Mallarmé

14 Art as Technique (1917) 210
Viktor Shklovsky

15 The Uncanny (1919) 226
Sigmund Freud

16 Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919) and The Function of Criticism (1923) 252
T. S. Eliot

17 A Room of One’s Own (1929) 265
Virginia Woolf

18 The Storyteller (1936): Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov 282
Walter Benjamin

19 Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote 299
Jorge Luis Borges

20 What is Literature? (1948) 306
Jean-Paul Sartre

21 Literature and the Right to Death (1948) 320
Maurice Blanchot

22 Language (1950) 349
Martin Heidegger

23 Trying to Understand Endgame (1958) 363
Theodor W. Adorno

24 The Meridian (1960) 389
Paul Celan

25 What is an Author? (1969) 398
Michel Foucault

26 Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays (1975) 411
Hélène Cixous

27 What is a Minor Literature? (1975) 426
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

28 Literature and Life (1993) 437
Gilles Deleuze

29 The Literary Absolute (1978) 441
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy

30 Orientalism (1978) 459
Edward W. Said

31 Autobiography as De-facement (1979) 479
Paul de Man

32 Che cos’è la poesia? (1988) and Before the Law (1982) 489
Jacques Derrida

33 Signs Taken for Wonders (1986): Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 1817 519
Homi K. Bhabha

34 What is the History of Literature? (1997) 538
Stephen Greenblatt

35 A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999) 558
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

36 Literature for the Planet (2001) 576
Wai Chee Dimock

37 The Politics of Literature (2003) 596
Jacques Rancière

38 Close Reading in an Age of Global Writing (2013) 609
Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Index 621