What is Literature? : A Critical Anthology (Paperback)

Introduction
Mark Robson

From Hamburg Dramaturgy (1769)
G. E. Lessing

‘Of the Standard of Taste’ (1777)
David Hume

From Critique of Judgment (1790)
Immanuel Kant

From On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795)
Friedrich Schiller

From On the Study of Greek Poetry (1797) and Philosophical Fragments (1798-1800)
Friedrich Schlegel

From Lectures on Dramatic Art (1811)
A. W. Schlegel

Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)
William Wordsworth

From Biographia Literaria (1817)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From Aesthetics (1835)
G. W. F. Hegel

‘The Function of Criticism at the Present Time’ (1864)
Matthew Arnold

From The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
Friedrich Nietzsche

‘The Art of Fiction’ (1884)
Henry James

‘Crisis of Verse’ (1897)
Stéphane Mallarmé

‘Art as Technique’ (1917)
Viktor Shklovsky

From ‘The Uncanny’ (1919)
Sigmund Freud

‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ (1919) and ‘The Function of Criticism’ (1923)
T. S. Eliot

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

‘The Storyteller’ (1936)
Walter Benjamin

‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’ (1944)
Jorge Luis Borges

From What is Literature? (1948)
Jean-Paul Sartre

‘Literature and the Right to Death’ (1948)
Maurice Blanchot

‘Language’ (1950)
Martin Heidegger

‘Trying to Understand Endgame’ (1958)
T. W. Adorno

‘The Meridian’ (1960)
Paul Celan

‘What is an Author?’ (1969)
Michel Foucault

From ‘Sorties’ (1975)
Hélène Cixous

From ‘What is a Minor Literature?’ (1975)
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

‘Literature and Life’ (1993)
Gilles Deleuze

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

From Orientalism (1978)
Edward Said

‘Autobiography as De-facement’ (1979)
Paul de Man

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

‘Signs Taken for Wonders’ (1986)Homi K. Bhabha

‘What is the History of Literature?’ (1997)
Stephen Greenblatt

From A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

‘Literature for the Planet’ (2001)
Wai Chee Dimock

‘The Politics of Literature’ (2003)
Jacques Rancière

‘Close Reading in an Age of Global Writing’ (2013)
Rebecca L. Walkowitz