LITERATURE: PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE / LITERARY THEORY

SUB-PAGES

• Definitions

Feminist:

• Feminist Perspectives on Literature

Post-colonial:

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Literature

ASSOCIATIONS

• Asociacion Espanola de Teoria y Literatura Comparada

• Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC)

• International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media

• International Association of Literary Semantics

• Society for Critical Exchange

• Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics

CONFERENCES

2008:

• 11th International Conference, International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media, University of Memphis, July 8-11
• Global Arts, Local Knowledge, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Melbourne, June 30-July 6
• Philosophy and Literature / Literature and Philosophy, Inaugural Conference, Centre for Literature and Philosophy, University of Sussex, June 12-14
• Character and Emotions, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Université de Genevè, April 25
• Philosophy of Literature, Ratio Conference 2008, University of Reading, April 12

2007:

• Poets Reading Philosophy / Philosophers Reading Poetry, Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts , University of Warwick, October 26-28

2006:

• Future Literature, Future Art: Probing the Boundaries of Criticism, Cracow, Poland, November 30-December 2
• Textual Scholarship and the Material Book: Comparative Approaches, European Society for Textual Scholarship, Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, November 23-25
• 2006 Conference, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC), Hotel Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco, California, October 13-15
• In Search of (Non)Sense: Literary Semantics and the Related Fields and Disciplines, International Association of Literary Semantics, Institute of English Philology, Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland, October 12-14
• Unpacking the Library: Literatures and their Archives, English Colloquia Series, University of Westminister, June 10
• Literature, the Literary and the Literal, Department of Philosophy, University of York, June 8
• Con/texts of Invention, Society for Critical Exchange, Case Western Reserve University, April 20-23
• Critical Aesthetics, Cornell University, April 6-8
• New Directions in Critical Theory, University of Arizona, April 6

   

2005:

• Textual Culture, Centre for Textual Culture, Literature and Technology, University of Stirling, July 19-20
• Music, Poetry and Sense Experience, New Languages for Criticism: Cross-currents and Resistances and the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL), École des Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, June 10-11
• Future Literature, Future Criticism, Prague, Czech Republic, March 17-19

• Poetry and Belief, Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick, February 25

• Character and Imagination, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, January 29

2004:

• IV Congreso Internacional de Teoria y Critica Literaria, Centro de Estudios de Teoria y Critica literaria, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina, August 18-20

• Cultures, Theories, Critiques, Department of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham, April

2003:

• Theory Now: a One Day Conference in Memory of Antony Easthope, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, October 4

• Reconciling "Anglistik": Didactic Strategies for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Universität Trier, Germany, October 2-4

• Radicality, Criticism and Reality: Considering the Past, the Present and the Future of Challenging Critiques, Centre for Critical Practice, School of English, University of Central England, September 27

• New Languages for Criticism: In(ter)discipline, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, September 19-21

• Whither Theory?  Université de Paris X (Nanterre) and the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales, Cardiff, June 19-21

2002:

• Theory Now: a Conference in Memory of Antony Easthope, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, June 28-30

2001:

2000:

Annual:

COURSES

Philosophy of Literature

• University of British Columbia: Philosophy of Literature (Lopes)
• University of Cape Town: Philosophy of Art and Literature (Galgut)

• Gonzaga University: Philosophy of Literature (Alfino)

• University of Kent: Philosophy in Literature (Harcourt)

• Lignan University: Philosophy and Literature
• Kansas State University: Introduction to Philosophy of Art and Literature (Hamilton)
• Manchester Metropolitan University: Philosophy of Literature (Haase)

• University of Melbourne: Philosophy and Literature (Cordner)

• Ohio University: Philosophy and Literature (Trachtenberg)

• Staffordshire University: Philosophy, Art and Literature (Shott)

• Tufts University: Philosophy and Literature (Baz)

• University of Wales, Swansea: Philosophy and Literature (Phillips)

• University of Washington: Philosophy in Literature (Hannah)

• Wesleyan University: Philosophy and Literature

Literary Theory:

• University of Alberta:
  • Literary Theory (Zwicker)
  • Literary Theory (Rak)
• University of Birmingham: Contemporary Critical Theory
• Brandeis University: History of Literary Criticism (Rind)
• Brock University:
  • Introduction to Literary Theory (Lye)
  • Contemporary Theory (Lye)
• California State University, Santa Barbara: Seminar in Literary Criticism and Research (Finney)
• University of Cambridge:
  • MPhil in European Literature: Core Course in Critical Theory
  • Modern Critical Theory
• Centenary College: Literary Theory and Criticism: From Plato to the Present (Hendricks)
• University of Colorado, Boulder:
  • Introduction to Literary Theory (Klages)
  • Introduction to Literary Theory (Morton)
  • Modern Critical Thought (Klages)
• Columbia University:
  • Concepts of Criticism: Philosophy and Literary Theory (Sidorsky)
  • Introduction to Theory (Damrosch)
  • Intro to Theory (Gourgouris)
• University of Dundee: Modern Literary Theory (Newton)
• University of East Anglia: Literature and Philosophy (Campbell): 2005 /
• Essex University: Approaches to Texts
• Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan: Literary Criticism Databank
• University of Georgia: Contemporary Literary Theory (Cole)
• Georgian Southern University: Criticism and Theory (Thomson)
• University of Glasgow: Literary Theory

• Goucher University: Critical Methods (Sanders)

• Harvard University:
  • Literary Theory in the Life of Literature (Bhabha)
  • Literary Theory
  • Major Critical Approaches
• Hong Kong University: Literary and Cultural Theory (Wang)
• Humboldt State University: Critical Theory (Eldredge)

• Kalamazoo College: Philosophy and Literature (Latiolais): 2004

• Université Laval: 
  • History of Literary Criticism (Gilchrist)
  • Methodes Critiques (Saint-Gelais)
• Lawrence University: Contemporary Critical Theory (Spurgin)
• Leeds University: Literary Theory: an Introduction (Heath)
• University of London:
  • Birbeck College: Postgraduate Seminar in Critical Theory (Connor)
  • Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies: European Literary and Cultural Theory
  • King's College: Reading Practice / Reading Theory
  • University College: MA Core Course in Literary Theory
• University of Manchester: Critical Theory (Littler)
• Mansfield University: Theory of Literature (Ulrich)
• University of Massachussetts, Dartmouth: Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice (Kamm)
• McGill University: Critique contemporaine et théorie (Lane-Mercier)
• Mesa State College: Critical Reading: Introduction to Theory and Criticism (Laga)
• National University of Singapore: Critical Theory (Phillips and Goh)
• Monash University:
  • Critical Theory: an Approach (Benjamin)
  • Critical Theory: a Survey (Milner)
  • Critical Theory: a Theorist (Ross)
  • Introduction to Critical Theory (Benjamin)
• University of New Mexico: Literary Criticism and Theory (Harrison)
• State University of New York:
  • Albany: Teoria y Critica Literaria y Cultural (Nagy-Zekmi)
  • Buffalo: 
    • Legacies of Critical Theory (Irlam)
    • Introduction to Critical Theory (Irlam)
• North Carolina State University: Contemporary Literary Theory (Wyrick)
• University of Oklahoma: 
  • Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (Leitch)
  • Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism (Leitch)
• University of Oregon: The History of Literary Criticism (Crosswhite)
• University of Pennsylvania:
  • Introduction to Literary Theory
  • Introduction to Literary Theory (English)
  • Literary Theory (Richman)
  • Literary Theory (Copeland)
• University of Queensland: 
  • Literary Theory And Criticism A
  • Literary Theory And Criticism B
  • Literary Theory and Criticism C
• Rice University: The History of Literary Theory (Morris)
• University of Southern California: Introduction to Literary Theory (Pinkus)
• Southern Methodist University: Contemporary Literary Theory (Foster)
• St. Francis Xavier University: Contemporary Critical Theory (Moynagh)
• University of Stirling: Critical Theory (Evans)
• University of Sussex: Semiotics, Ideology and Literature (Roberts)
• Syracuse University:
  • Critical Theory (Klaver)
  • Introduction to Critical Theory (Lambert)
  • Reading and Interpretation (Klaver)
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville: 
  • History of Literary Theory (Anderson)
  • Introduction to Critical Theory (Anderson)

• University of Texas, Arlington: Criticism: the Tradition (Frank)

• Vanderbilt University: Introduction to Literary Theory (Clayton)
• University of Wales, Swansea: Introduction to Contemporary Critical Theory

• University of Washington: History and Theory of Criticism (Halmi)

• Wilfrid Laurier University:
  • Literary Theory (Haslam)
  • Advanced Literary and Cultural Theory (Haslam)

HISTORY OF LITERATURE

• Periods of Literature and Literary Theory

JOURNALS

• Boundary 2 (1972 - )

• Critical Inquiry (1974 - )

• Critical Survey

• Diacritics: a Review of Contemporary Criticism (1971 - )

• Journal of Literary Theory

• LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory

• Literature and Aesthetics

• Mosaic: a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature

• October

• Paragraph: Journal of the Modern Critical Theory Group

• Philosophy and Literature (also here)

• Poetics Today: Journal for the Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication (formerly Poetics and the Theory of Literature -- PTL)

• Poétique

• Qui Parle: an Interdisciplinary Journal

• SubStance: a Review of Theory and Criticism (also here)

• SYMPLOKE: a Journal of Comparative Theory and Literature

• Textual Practice (1987 - )

• Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities (1987 - )

• Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

Philosophers of Literature:

• Monroe C. Beardsley (1915 - 1985)

• Morris Weitz (1916 - )

• Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)

• Richard Wollheim (1923 - 2003)

• Arthur C. Danto (1924 - )

• Stanley Cavell (1926 - ) (see also Pragmatist Literary Theory)

• Noel Carroll (1947 - )

• Martha C. Nussbaum (1947 - )

Literary Theorists:

REGIONS

• Literature and Literary Theory by Region

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

• Humanity: Philosophy and Literary Theory (Ed. Hugh J. Silverman)

• Indiana University Press: Theories of Representation and Difference (Ed. Teresa de Lauretis)

• University of Minnesota Press: Theory and History of Literature (Ed. Wlad Godzich and Jochen Schulte-Sasse)

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Philosophy of Literature:
    • Bolling, Doug, ed.  Philosophy and Literature.  New York: Haven, 1987.
    • Davies, David, and Carl Matheson, eds.  Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Literature.  Peterborough, ONT: Broadview, 2005.
    • Fox, Richard, ed.  Readings in Philosophy and Literature.  Kendall-Hunt, 1971.
    • John, Eileen, and Dominic McIver Lopes, eds.  The Philosophy of Literature: Classic and Contemporary Readings.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
    • Lamarque, Peter, ed.  Philosophy and Fiction: Essays in Literary Aesthetics.  Aberdeen: Aberdeen UP, 1983.
    • Thompson, Peter, ed.  Philosophy and Literature: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Commitment.  Harcourt College, 1969.  Rpt. 2001.
  • Literary Theory:
    • Adams, Hazard, ed.  Critical Theory Since Plato.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971.
    • Adams, Hazard, and Leroy Searle, eds.  Critical Theory Since 1965.  Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1986.
    • Bate, Walter Jackson, ed.  Criticism: the Major Texts.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1952.
    • Bloom, Harold, ed.  The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present.  11 Vols.  New York: Chelsea House, 1985-1990.
    • Clark, Barrett R., ed.  European Theories of the Drama.  
    • Davis, Robert Con, ed.  Contemporary Literary Criticism: Modernism through Structuralism.  London: Longman, 1986.
    • Dukore, Bernard, ed.  Dramatic Theory: Greeks to Grotowski.  
    • Easthope, Antony, and Kate McGowan, eds.  A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader.  Buckingham: Open UP, 1992.
    • Fokkema, Douwe Wessel, and Elrud Kunne-Ibsch, eds.  Theories of Literature in the Twentieth Century: Structuralism, Marxism, Aesthetics of Reception.  New York: St. Martin's, 1978.
    • George, A. G., ed.  Makers of Literary Criticism.  3 Vols.  London: Asia Publishing, 1967.
    • Gilbert, Alan H., and G. W. Allen, eds.  Literary Criticism: Plato to Croce.  2 Vols.  New York: American Book Co., 1940-1941.
    • Hall, Lawrence Sargent, ed.  A Grammar of Literary Criticism.  New York: Macmillan, 1965.
    • Kaplan, Charles, ed.  Criticism: the Major Statements.  New York: St. Martin's, 1980.
    • Lambropoulos, Vassilis, and David Neal Miller, eds.  Twentieth Century Literary Theory: an Introductory Anthology.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1986.
    • Leitch, Vincent, et al., eds.  Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  New York: Norton, 2001.
    • Lipking, Lawrence I., and A. Walton Litz, eds.  Modern Literary Criticism, 1900-1970.  New York: Scribner, 1972.
    • Lodge, David, ed. Modern Criticism and Theory: a Reader.  London: Longman, 1988.
    • Lodge, David, ed. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.  London: Longman, 1972.
     
    • Newton, K. M., ed. Twentieth Century Literary Theory: a Reader.  New York: St. Martin's, 1997.
    • Newton, K. M., ed. Theory into Practice: a Reader in Modern Literary Criticism.  New York: St. Martin's, 1992.
    • Rice, Philip, and Patricia Waugh, eds. Modern Literary Theory: a Reader.  London: Edward Arnold, 1989.
    • Richter, David H., ed. The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.  Boston: Bedford, 1998.
    • Rivkin, Julie, and Michael Ryan, eds.  Literary Theory: an Anthology.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
    • Rylance, Rick, ed.  Debating Texts: Readings in Twentieth Century Literary Theory and Method.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1987.
    • Selden, Raman, ed. The Theory of Criticism: from Plato to the Present.  London: Longman, 1988.
    • Stallman, Robert Wooster, ed.  Critiques and Essays in Criticism, 1920-1948.  New York: Ronald Press, 1949.
    • Staton, Shirley, ed. Literary Theories in Praxis.  Pennsylvania: U of Pennsylvania P, 1987.
    • Steiner, Wendy, ed.  Literature as Meaning.  London: Longman, 2005.
    • Sutton, Walter, and Richard Foster, ed.  Modern Criticism: Theory and Practice.  New York: Odyssey, 1963.
    • Trilling, Lionel, ed.  Literary Criticism: an Introductory Reader.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1970.
    • Walder, Dennis, ed.  Literature in the Modern World.  Oxford: OUP, 1990.  Rev. ed. 2003.
    • Waugh, Patricia, ed.  Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature.  London: Arnold, 1997.
    • Wolfreys, Julian. ed. Literary Theories: a Reader and Guide.  New York: New York UP, 1999.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Philosophy of Literature:
    • Altieri, Charles.  Act and Quality: a Theory of Literary Meaning and Humanistic Understanding.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1981.
    • Currie, Gregory.  The Nature of Fiction.  Cambridge: CUP, 1990.
    • Dasenbrock, Reed Way.  Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2001.

    • Ellis, John.  The Theory of Criticism: a Logical Analysis.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1977.

    • Lamarque, Peter.  Fictional Points of View.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996.
    • Lamarque, Peter, and Stein Haugom Olsen.  Truth, Fiction and Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.
    • New, Christopher.  Philosophy of Literature: an Introduction.  London: Routledge, 1999.
    • Olsen, Stein Haugom.  The End of Literary Theory.  Cambridge: CUP, 1987.
    • Olsen, Stein Haugom.  The Structure of Literary Understanding.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.

    • Voltolini, Alberto.  How Ficta Follow Fiction: a Syncretistic Account of Fictional Entities.  Dordrecht: Springer, 2006.

  • Literary Theory:

    • Docherty, Thomas.  Criticism and Modernity: Aesthetics, Literature, and Nations in Europe and its Academies.  Oxford: OUP, 1999.
    • Docherty, Thomas.  Reading (Absent) Character: Towards a Theory of Characterisation in Fiction.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1997.
    • Docherty, Thomas.  Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.
    • Docherty, Thomas.  After Theory: Postmodernism / PostMarxism.  London: Routledge, 1990; Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1997.
    • Docherty, Thomas.  On Modern Authority: the Theory and Condition of Writing, 1500 - the Present.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1987.
    • Hohendahl, Uwe.  The Institution of Criticism.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982.
    • McDonald, Rónán.  The Death of the Critic.  London: Continuum, 2007.
    • Smith, Barbara Hernstein.  Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1988.

On-Line:

• Philosophy of Literature:
• Literary Theory:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Philosophy of Literature:
    • Griffiths, A. Phillips, ed.  Philosophy and Literature.  Cambridge: CUP, 1984.
    • Jost, Walter, and Kenneth Dauber, eds.  Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking after Cavell after Wittgenstein.  Afterword by Stanley Cavell.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2003.
    • Rudrum, David, ed.  Literature and Philosophy: a Guide to Contemporary Debates.  London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006.
  • Literary Theory:
    • Adams, Hazard, Bernard Duffey, et al., eds.  Approaches to the Study of Twentieth- Century Literature.  East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1961.
    • Atkins, G. Douglas, and Laura Morrow, eds.  Contemporary Literary Theory.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1989.

    • Barry, Peter, ed.  Issues in Contemporary Critical Theory: a Casebook.  Ed. Peter Barry.  London: Macmillan, 1987.

    • Borklund, Elmer, ed.  Contemporary Literary Critics.  Detroit: Gale, 1982.
    • Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP.
      • Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives.  Vol. 9.  Ed. Christa Knellwolf and Christopher Norris.  2001.
      • From Formalism to Poststructuralism.  Vol. 8.  Ed. Raman Selden.  1995.
      • Modernism and the New Criticism.  Vol. 7.  Ed. A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey.  2000. 
      • Realism, Positivism, and Marxism.  Ed. George Alexander Kennedy.  Vol. 6.  2006.
      • Romanticism.  Vol. 5.  Ed. Marshall Brown.  2000.
      • The Eighteenth Century.  Vol. 4.  Ed. H. B. Nisbet and Claude Rawson.  1997.
      • The Renaissance.  Vol. 3.  Ed. Glyn P. Norton.  1999.
      • The Middle Ages.  Vol. 2.  Ed. Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson.  2004.
      • Classical Criticism.  Vol. 1.  Ed. George Alexander Kennedy.  1993.

    • Childers, Joseph, and Gary Hentzi, eds.  The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism.  New York: Columbia UP, 1995.

    • Collier, Peter, and Helga Geyer-Ryan, eds.  Literary Theory Today.  Cambridge: Polity, 1990.
    • Coyle, Martin, et al., eds.  Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism.  

    • Demetz, Peter, Thomas Greene, and Lowry Nelson, Jr., eds.  The Disciplines of Criticism.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1968.

    • Frye, Northrop, Sheridan Baker, and George Perkins, eds.  The Harper Handbook to Literature.  New York: Harper and Row, 1985.

    • Gibaldi, Joseph, ed.  Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures.  New York: Modern Language Association, 1981.
    • Greenblatt, Stephen, and Giles Gunn, eds.  Redrawing the Boundaries: the Transformation of English and American Literary Studies.  New York: MLA, 1992.
    • Groden, Michael, and Martin Kreiswirth, eds.  The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.
     Rev. Ed. 2005.
    • Hernadi, Paul, ed.  What Is Criticism?.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1981.
    • Jay, Gregory S., and David L. Miller, eds.  After Strange Texts: the Role of Theory in the Study of Literature.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1985. 
    • Jefferson, Ann, and David Robey, eds.  Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative Introduction.  Lansing, MI: Rowman and Littlefield, 1982.
    • Lentricchia, Frank, and Thomas McLaughlin, eds.  Critical Terms for Literary Studies.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.

    • Makaryk, Irena R., ed.  Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1993.

    • Malpas, Simon, and Paul Wake, eds.  Routledge Companion to Critical Theory.  London: Routledge, 2006.

    • Moran, Charles, and Elizabeth Penfield, eds.  Conversations: Contemporary Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature.  Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English,  .

    • Payne, Michael, Meenakshi Ponnuswami, Jennifer Payne, eds.  A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

    • Salusinsky, Imre, ed.  Criticism in Society: Interviews With Jacques Derrid, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Frank Kermode, Edward Said, Barbara Johnson, Frank Kermode.  London: Methuen, 1989.

    • Staton, Shirley, ed.  Literary Theories in Praxis.  Pennsylvania: U of Pennsylvania P, 1987.

    • Tallack, Douglas, ed.  Literary Theory at Work: Three Texts.  London: Batsford, 1987.
    • Thorpe, James, ed.  The Aims and Methods of Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures.  New York: Modern Language Association, 1963.
    • Waugh, Patricia, ed.  Modern Literary Theory and Criticism: an Oxford Guide.  Oxford: OUP, 2006.
    • Waugh, Patricia, ed.  Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature. 
    • Widdowson, Peter, ed.  A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory.  Upper Saddle River, NJ.: Prentice Hall, 1997.
    • Wolfreys, Julian, ed.  Thinking Difference: Critics in Conversation.  New York: Fordham UP, 2004.
    • Wolfreys, Julian, ed.  Glossalalia: an Alphabet of Critical Keywords.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2003.
    • Wolfreys, Julian, ed.  Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2002.  [pub. in USA as Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory.  New York: Continuum, 2002.]
    • Wolfreys