HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):
  
Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):
  
Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

   Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):
  
Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:
  
Romanticism (1785-1830):
     
Romantic Literature
   Mid-Century/Fin de Siècle (1830-1900)
:
     
'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:
  
Analytic Philosophy

   Continental Theory:
     
Idealism

      Marxism

      Phenom., Existent., Hermeneutics

      Psychoanalysis

      (Post-)Structuralisms:

         Deconstruction

         Deleuzean Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)

         Foucauldian Discourse Theory

         Semiology / Structuralism

         Structuralist Marxism

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis

   Modernism, Myth & New Criticism

   Pragmatism

 

   Feminist Theory

   Post-colonial Theory

 

   Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

   Central Asia

   East Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

   Central Europe

   Eastern Europe:

      Russia:

        Literature

   Northern Europe:

      Literature

   Southern Europe:

      Greece:

         Literature

      Italy:

         Literature

      Spain:

         Literature

   Western Europe:

      France:

         Literature

      Germany:

         Literature

      UK and Eire:

         Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

   Arabic/Islamic Thought:

      Literature

   Israeli/Jewish Thought:

      Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

   African American Thought:

      Literature

   Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

   Architecture
   Arts, Visual and Plastic

   Film

   Literature:

      Author

      Literary Form & Genre:

         Drama

         Poetry

         Prose

      Literary History, Intertextuality, Canon.

      Metaliterature

      Reader

      Representation

   Music
   Other Media (e.g. Photography)

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

   Discourse Studies
   Philosophy of Language & Logic

   Linguistics

   Rhetoric & Argumentation Theory

   Semiotics

 

   Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

   Medical Humanities
  
Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

   Psychology

 

   Gender

   Race

   Sexuality

 

   Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

THE AUTHOR
THE 'EXPRESSIVE' POLE


SUB-PAGES

Feminist:

Post-colonial:


ASSOCIATIONS

  • Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)

CONFERENCES

COURSES

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:
    • General:
      • Baldwin, Anna, and Sarah Hutton, eds.  Platonism and the English Imagination.  Cambridge: CUP, 1994.
      • Biriotti, Maurice, and Nicola Miller, eds.  What is an Author?  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1993.
      • Burke, Sean, ed.  Authorship from Plato to the Postmodern: a Reader.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1995.
      • Caughie, John, ed.  Theories of Authorship: a Reader.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
    • Intentionality:
      • Iseminger, Gary, ed.  Intention Interpretation.  Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1995.
      • Newton-Da Molina, David, ed.  On Literary Intention.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1976.
    • Symbolism:
      • Beebe, Maurice, ed.  Literary Symbolism.  San Francisco: Wadsworth, 1960.
      • Strelka, Joseph, ed.  Perspectives in Literary Symbolism.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1968.
      • West, T. G.  Symbolism: an Anthology.  London: Methuen, 1980.
  • Selected Individual Works:
    • General:
      • Altieri, Charles.  Subjective Agency: a Theory of First-Person Expressivity and its Social Implications.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
      • Altieri, Charles.  Act and Quality: a Theory of Literary Meaning and Humanistic Understanding.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1981.
      • Benedetti, Carla.  The Empty Cage: Inquiry into the Mysterious Disappearance of the Author.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2005.
      • Collins, A. S.  Authorship in the Days of Johnson.  New York: Dutton, 1929.
      • Crewe, Jonathan.  Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1990.
      • Ede, Lisa, and Andrew Lunsford.  Singular Text / Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990.
      • Ellmann, Maud.  The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.  Brighton: Harvester, 1987.
      • Engell, James.  The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1981.
      • Kamuf, Peggy.  Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.
      • Levin, Richard.  "The Poetics and Politics of Bardicide."  PMLA 105 (1990): 491-504.
      • Lewis, C. S., and E. M. W. Tillyard.  The Personal Heresy: a Debate.  Oxford: OUP, 1939.
      • Meltzer, Françoise.  Hot Property: the Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality.  1994.
      • Minnis, Alastair.  Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages.  London: Scolar Press, 1984.
      • Nitzsche, Jane Chance.  The Genius Figure in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.  New York: Columbia UP, 1975.
      • Quaint, David.  Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1983.
      • Rose, Mark.  Authors and Owners.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1993.
      • Simpson, David.  Irony and Authority in Romantic Poetry.  Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1979.
      • Stillinger, Jack.  Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius.  Oxford: OUP, 1991.
      • Woodmansee, Martha, and Peter Jaszi, eds.  The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation and Law in Literature.  Durham: Duke UP, 1994.
      • Wyrick, Jed.  The Ascension of Authorship: Attribution and Canon Formation in Jewish, Hellenistic and Christian Traditions.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004.
    • Intentionality:
      • Anscombe, G. E. M.  Intention.  Oxford: OUP, 1963.
      • Booth, Wayne.  The Rhetoric of Fiction.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1961.
      • Cain, William E.  "Authors and Authority in Interpretation."  Georgia Review 34 (1980): 617-634.
      • Cioffi, Frank.  "Intention and Interpretation in Criticism."  On Literary Intention.  Ed. David Newton-Da Molina.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1976.
      • Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.  "Intention."  American Bookman 1 (1944): 41-48.
      • Davis, Walter A.  The Act of Interpretation: a Critique of Literary Reason.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1978.
      • Gang, T. M.  "Intention."  Essays in Criticism 7 (1957): 175-186.

      • Hancher, Michael.  "Three Kinds of Intention."  Modern Language Notes 87 (1972): 829-835.

      • Harris, Wendell V.  Beyond Poststructuralism: the Speculations of Theory and the Experience of Reading.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1996.

      • Harris, Wendell V.  Interpretive Acts: in Search of Meaning.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.

      • Harris, Wendell V.  Literary Meaning: Reclaiming the Study of Literature.  New York: New York UP, 1996.

      • Hix, H. L.  Morte d'Author: an Autopsy.  Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1990.
      • Juhl, P. D.  Interpretation: an Essay in the Philosophy of Literary Criticism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.
      • Kuhn, Richard.  "Criticism and the Problem of Intention."  Journal of Philosophy 57 (1960): 5-23.
      • Livingston, Paisley.  Art and Intention: a Philosophical Study.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.
      • Miller, Karl.  Authors.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.
      • Mitchell, Kaye.  Intention and Text: Towards an Intentionality of Literary Form.  London: Continuum, 2008.
      • Olsen, Stein Haugom.  "Interpretation and Intention."  The End of Literary Theory.  Cambridge: CUP,1987.  [1977]
      • Olsen, Stein Haugom.  "Authorial Intention."  The End of Literary Theory.  Cambridge: CUP,1987.  [1973]
      • Peckham, Morse.  "The Intentional Fallacy?"  On Literary Intention.  Ed. David Newton-Da Molina.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1976.  [1969]
      • Raval, Suresh.  "Intention and Contemporary Literary Theory."  Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 38 (1980): 262-277.
      • Skinner, Quentin.  "Motives, Intentions and the Interpretation of Texts."  New Literary History 3 (1972): 393—408.
        • Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and his Critics.  Ed. James Tully. Cambridge: Polity, 1988.  68-78. 

        • On Literary Intention.  Ed. David Newton-Da Molina.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1976.
      • Sontag, Susan.  Against Interpretation.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964.
      • Tanselle, G. Thomas.  "The Editorial Problem of Final Authorial Intention."  Studies in Bibliography 29 (1976): 167-211.
      • Wimsatt, W. K., and Monroe Beardsley.  "The Intentional Fallacy."  The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry.  Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1954.  [1946]
      • Wimsatt, W. K., and Monroe Beardsley.  "Intention."  Dictionary of World Literature.  Ed. J. T. Shipley.  New York: Philosophical Library, 1943.
      • Wimsatt, W. K.  "Genesis: an Argument Revisited."  Day of the Leopards.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1976. 
    • Symbolism:
      • Bellow, Saul.  "Deep Readers of the World, Beware!"  Literary Symbolism.  Ed. Maurice Beebe.  San Francisco: Wadsworth, 1960. 
      • Carlisle, Thomas.  "Symbols."  Sartor Resartus.  [1833-1834]
      • Coleridge, S. T.  The Statesman's Manual.  [1816]
      • Levin, Harry.  "Symbolism and Fiction."  Contexts of Criticism.  New York: Athenaeum, 1963.
      • McCarthy, Mary.  "Settling the Colonel's Hash."  Literary Symbolism.  Ed. Maurice Beebe.  San Francisco: Wadsworth, 1960.
      • Stevens, Wallace.  Opus Posthumous.  New York, 1957.
      • Todorov, Tzvetan.  1978.
        • Symbolism and Interpretation.  Trans. Catherine Porter.  Ithaca: Cornell UP 1982.
      • Wheelwright, Philip.  The Burning Fountain.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1954.
      • Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks.  "Symbolism."  Literary Criticism: a Short History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.  583-609.
      • Yeats, W. B.  "The Symbolism of Poetry."  Essays and Introductions.  New York: Macmillan, 1961.  [1900]

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:
    • Engelberg, Edward, ed.  The Symbolist Poem.  1967.
    • Stromberg, Roland, ed.  Realism, Naturalism and Symbolism: Modes of Thought and Expression in Europe, 1848-1914.  New York: Walker, 1968.
  • Selected Individual Works:
    • General:
      • Bennett, Andrew.  The Author.  London: Routledge, 2005.
      • Burke, Sean.  The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1992.
      • Harris, Wendell V.  "Author."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  15-20.
      • Pease, Donald E.  "Author."  Critical Terms for Literary Studies.  Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.  105-117.
    • Intentionality:
      • Harris, Wendell V.  "Intention."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  163-172.
      • Patterson, Annabel.  "Intention."  Critical Terms for Literary Studies.  Ed. Frank Lentricchia, and Thomas McLaughlin.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.  135-146.
    • Symbolism:

      • Adams, Hazard.  Philosophy of the Literary Symbolic.  Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1983.
      • Balakian, Anna E.  The Symbolist Movement: a Critical Appraisal.  New York: Random House, 1967.

      • Boon, James.  From Symbolism to Structuralism.  New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

      • Bowra, C. M.  The Heritage of Symbolism.  London: Macmillan, 1983.

      • Chadwick, C.  Symbolism.  London: Methuen, 1971.

      • Chiari, Joseph.  Symbolism from Poe to Mallarmé.  Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Library, 1956.
      • Cornell, Keith.  The Symbolist Movement.  1951.
      • Harland, Richard.  "Naturalism, Symbolism and Modernism."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  96-124.
      • Harris, Wendell V.  "Symbol."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  398-405.
      • Lehmann, A. G.  The Symbolist Aesthetic in France, 1885-1895.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1968.
      • Olson, Elder.  "A Dialogue on Symbolism."  Critics and Criticism.  Ed. R. S. Crane.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.

      • Symons, Arthur.  The Symbolist Movement in Literature.  London: Heinemann, 1899.

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