Selected Bibliography: Books

Berube, Michael. Public access: literary theory and American cultural politics. NY: Verso, 1994. PS78 .B47

Bloom, Harold. Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism. NY: Oxford UP, 1982.

Bluestein, Gene. The voice of the folk; folklore and American literary theory. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P 1972 GR105 B485

Cassedy, Steven. Flight from Eden: the origins of modern literary criticism and theory. Berkeley: U of California P, 1990. PN45 .C34

Davidson, Cathy N. ed. Reading in America: Literature and Social History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989.

Downing, David B. Practicing theory in introductory college literature courses. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1991. PS25 .P7

Encyclopedia of feminist literary theory. Ed. Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace. NY: Garland, 1997.

Esrock. Ellen J. The Reader's Eye: Visual Imaging as Reader Response. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993.

Felman, Shoshana. Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1982.

Fromm, Harold. Academic Capitalism & Literary Value. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1991.

Fuss, Diana. Inside/out: lesbian theories, gay theories. NY: Routledge, 1991.

Gates, Henry L. The signifying monkey: a theory of African American literary criticism. NY: Oxford U P, 1989, 1988. PS153 .N5 G28

Groden, Michael, and Martin Kreiswirth. eds. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994. Ref PN81 .J554

Hedges, Elaine introd. "Repositionings: Multiculturalism, American Literary History, and the Curriculum." American Literature 66.4 (Dec 1994): 769-829.

Hicks, Jim. "American Literary History at the Crossroads." Minnesota Review 43-44 (Fall 1994-Sprg 1995): 244-51.

Howard, June. "Unraveling Regions, Unsettling Periods: Sarah Orne Jewett and American Literary History." American Literature 68.2 (Jun 1996): 365-84.

Howe, Susan. The Birth Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History. Hanover, NH: UP of New England, for Wesleyan UP, 1993.

| Top | James, Joy, and Ruth Farmer. Spirit, space & survival: African American women in (white) academe. NY: Routledge, 1993. LC2781 .S69

Jay, Gregory S. ed. Modern American Critics, 1920-1955. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1988.

Jayne, Edward. Negative Poetics. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992.

Konigsberg, Ira. ed. American Criticism in the Poststructuralist Age. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1981.

Machor, James L. ed. Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992.

Magill, Frank N. ed. Critical survey of literary theory. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem P, 1987. PN45 .C74

Makaryk, Irene R. Encyclopedia of contemporary literary theory: approaches, scholars, terms. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1993. Ref PN81 .E43

Meese, Elizabeth A. Crossing the Double Cross: The Practice of Feminist Criticism. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1986.

Muller John P. and William J. Richardson. The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.

Pizer, Donald. The theory and practice of American literary naturalism: selected essays and reviews. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, 1993. PS374 .N29 P48

Rado, Lisa. ed. Rereading modernism: new directions in feminist criticism. NY: Garland Pub., 1994. PN98 .W64 R47

Tompkins, Jane P. ed. Reader- Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1981.

Wall, Cheryl A. ed. Changing our own words: essays on criticism, theory, and writing by Black women. New Brunswick: Rutgers U P, 1989. PS153 .N5 C44

Wolfe, Susan J., and Julia Penelope. eds. Sexual practicetextual theory: lesbian cultural criticism. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1993. PS153 .L46 S48

| Top | Selected Bibliography: Articles

Alam, Fakrul. "The Newer Criticism: New Directions in American Literary History." South Carolina Review 21.1 (Fall 1988): 65-68.

- - -. "Making It New in American Literary History." North Dakota Quarterly 60.1 (Wint 1992): 74-80.

Bauer, Ralph. "Colonial Discourse and Early American Literary History: Ercilla, The Inca Garcilaso, and Joel Barlow's Conception of a New World Epic." Early American Literature 30.3 (1995): 203-32.

Baym, Nina. Feminism and American Literary History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1992.

Bercovitch, Sacvan. ed. Reconstructing American Literary History. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1986.

Berlant, Lauren. "Cultural Struggle and Literary History: African American Women's Writing." Modern Philology 88.1 (Aug 1990): 57-64.

Bercovitch, Sacvan. "The Problem of Ideology in American Literary History." Critical Inquiry 12.4 (Sumr 1986): 631-53.

Berube, Michael. "Hybridity in the Center: An Interview with Houston A. Baker, Jr." African American Review 26.4 (Wint 1992): 547-64.

Brooks, Neil. "We Are Not Free! Free! Free! Flight and the Unmapping of American Literary Studies." Cla journal 41.4 (Jun 1998): 371-87.

Chay, Deborah G. "Rereading Barbara Smith: Black Feminist Criticism and the Category of Experience." New Literary History 24.3 (Sumr 1993): 635-52.

Carafiol, Peter. "The New Orthodoxy: Ideology and the Institution of American Literary History." American Literature 59.4 (Dec 1987): 626-38.

Casale, Dean W. "Appropriating Poe: Problems in American Literary History." Dissertation Abstracts International 53.6 (Dec 1992): 1912A DAI No.: DA9232781.

Christian, Barbara. "But What Do We Think We're Doing Anyway: The State of Black Feminist Criticism(s) or My Version of a Little Bit of History." Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women. Ed. Cheryl A. Wall. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1989.

Corral, Will H. "Cortazar, Vargas Llosa, and Spanish American Literary History." American Literary History 4.3 (Fall 1992): 489-516.

Crane, Gregg D. "The Path of Law and Literature." American literary history 9.4 (Wint 1997): 758-76.

Duncan, Cynthia. ed. & introd. "The Configuration of Feminist Criticism and Theoretical Practices in Hispanic Literary Studies." Inti: Revista de Literatura Hispanica 40-41 (Fall 1994-Spring 1995).

Fromm, Harold. "Real Life, Literary Criticism, and the Perils of Bourgeoisification." New Literary History 20.1 (Autm 1988): 49-64.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. "'What's Love Got To Do with It?' Critical Theory, Integrity, and the Black Idiom." New Literary History 18.2 (Wint 1987): 345-62.

Greenblatt, Stephen, and Giles Gunn. eds. Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Studies. NY: Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer., 1992.

Hale, Dorothy J. "Bakhtin in African American Literary Theory." ELH 61.2 (Sumr 1994): 445-71.

Hauge, Hans. "The Reception of Recent Continental Ideas in the United States." American Studies in Transition. Eds. David E. Nye and Christen Kold Thomsen. Odense: Odense UP, 1985. 13-28.

Humphries, Jefferson. "On the Inevitability of Theory in Southern Literary Study." Yale Journal of Criticism 3.1 (Fall 1989): 175-86.

Johnstone, Robert D. "The American Literature Test: National Literary History and the Cipher of America." Dissertation Abstracts International 54.11 (May 1994): DAI No.: DA9412354. Degree granting institution: Harvard U, 1993.

Jones, Susan A. "Rethinking American Women's Literary History: The Domestic Novel and the Rise of the Short Story." Dissertation Abstracts International 54.5 (Nov 1993): 1804A 05A DAI No.: DA9327226.

Joyce, Joyce A. "'Who the Cap Fit': Unconsciousness and Unconscionableness in the Criticism of Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Henry Louis Gates, Jr." New Literary History 18.2 (Wint 1987): 371-84.

- - -. "The Black Canon: Reconstructing Black American Literary Criticism." New Literary History 18.2 (Wint 1987): 335-44.

| Top | Kafka, Phillipa. "Another Round of Canon Fire: Feminist and Multi Ethnic Theory in the American Literature Survey." MELUS 16.2 (Sumr 1989): 31-49.

Kalu, Anthonia C. "Bill Cosby, Blues and the Reconstruction of African American Literary Theory." Literary Griot 4.1-2 (Sprg-Fall 1992): 1-15.

Kollhofer, Jakob ed. James Baldwin: His Place in American Literary History and His Reception in Europe. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1991. 140 pp.

Krupat, Arnold. "Criticism and the Canon: Cross Relations." Diacritics 17.2 (Sumr 1987): 3-20.

Kutzinski, Vera M. "Commentary: American Literary History as Spatial Practice." American Literary History 4.3 (Fall 1992): 550-57.

Leal, Luis. "The Rewriting of American Literary History." Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology. Eds Hector Calderon and Jose Saldivar. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1991. 21-27.

Mathewson, Stephen L. "The Canonical Whale: 'Moby Dick' and American Literary History." Dissertation Abstracts International 50.11 (May 1990): 3591A.

McClain, Laurence L. "The Rhetoric of Regional Identity: Regional Fiction and the Politics of American Literary History." Dissertation Abstracts International 54.8 (Feb 1994): 3033A DAI No.: DA9400952.

Leal, Luis. "The Rewriting of American Literary History." Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology. Eds Hector Calderon and Jose Saldivar. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1991. 21-27.

Lucero, Marcela C. "Resources for the Chicana Feminist Scholar." For Alma Mater: Theory and Practice in Feminist Scholarship. Ed. Paula A. Treichler, Cheris Kramarae, and Beth Stafford. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1985.

Martin, Reginald. "Current African American Literary Theory: Review and Projections." Understanding Others: Cultural and Cross Cultural Studies and the Teaching of Literature. Ed. Joseph Trimmer. Urbana: Nat. Council of Teachers of Eng., 1992. 107-14.

Mason, Theodore O., Jr. "Between the Populist and the Scientist: Ideology and Power in Recent Afro American Literary Criticism; Or, 'The Dozens' as Scholarship." Callaloo 11.3 (Sumr 1988): 606-15.

| Top | Mathewson, Stephen L. "The Canonical Whale: 'Moby Dick' and American Literary History." Dissertation Abstracts International 50.11 (May 1990): 3591A.

McClain, Laurence L. "The Rhetoric of Regional Identity: Regional Fiction and the Politics of American Literary History." Dissertation Abstracts International 54.8 (Feb 1994): 3033A DAI No.: DA9400952.

McDowell, Deborah. "Reading Family Matters." Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women. Ed. Cheryl A. Wall. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1989.

Miller, R. Baxter. "The Wasteland and the Flower: Through Blyden Jackson: A Revised Theory for Black Southern Literature." Southern Literary Journal 17.1 (Fall 1984): 3-11.

Neeper, L. Layne. "Inventing the Canon: Nineteenth Century American Literary History, Narrativity, and Canon Formation. Dissertation Abstracts International 52.12 (June 1992): 4332A DAI No.: DA9214245.

Nichols, Charles H. "Sterling Brown, Poet, His Place in Afro American Literary History." The Harlem Renaissance: Revaluations. Eds. Amritjit Singh, William S. Shiver, and Stanley Brodwin. NY: Garland, 1989. 91-400.

Perloff, Marjorie. "Modernist Studies." Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Studies. Eds. Stephen Greenblatt and Giles Gunn. NY: Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer., 1992. 154-78.

Radway, Janice. "American Studies, Reader Theory, and the Literary Text: From the Study of Material Objects to the Study of Social Processes." American Studies in Transition. Eds. David E. Nye and Christen Kold Thomsen.Odense: Odense UP, 1985. 29-51.

Reid, Sonia. "A 'Bracketed Year' Approach to American Literary History: What Can We Learn?" Pacific Coast Philology 28.1 (Sep 1993): 43-55.

Rooney, Ellen F. "At 'the Limits of Pluralism': Constructing the Problematic of American Literary Theory." Dissertation Abstracts International 47.5 (Nov 1986):, 1718A.

Ruoff, A. LaVonne, and Jerry W. Ward. ed. Redefining American Literary History. NY: Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer., 1990.

Saldivar-Hull, Sonia. "Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics." Tradition and the Talents of Women. Ed. Florence Howe. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1991. 292-307.

| Top | Saldivar, Ramon. "Narrative, Ideology, and the Reconstruction of American Literary History." Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology. Eds Hector Calderon and Jose Saldivar. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1991. 11-20.

Showalter, Elaine. "A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory; Essays by Twenty Five Leading Crits. & Theorists Chart the Course of Crit. into the 1990s & Beyond." The Future of Literary Theory. Ed. Ralph Cohen. NY: Routledge, 1989. 347-69.

Smith, Barbara. "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism." In the Memory and Spirit of Frances, Zora, and Lorraine: Essays and Interviews on Black Women and Writing. Ed. Juliette Bowles. Washington, DC: Inst. for the Arts & the Humanities, Howard Univ., 1979. 32-40.

Smith, Barbara. "Reply to Deborah Chay." New Literary History 24.3 (Sumr 1993): 653-56.

Smith, Valerie. "Black Feminist Theory and the Representation of the 'Other'." Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women. Ed. Cheryl A. Wall. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1989. 38-57.

Spengemann, William C. "American Things/Literary Things: The Problem of American Literary History." American Literature 57.3 (Oct 1985): 456-81.

Spillers, Hortense. "Review Essay: 'Turning the Century': Notes on Women and Difference." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 3.1-2 (Sprg-Fall 1984): 178-85.

Spillers, Hortense J. "Formalism Comes to Harlem." Black American Literature Forum 16.2 (Sumr 1982): 58-64.

Stonum, Gary L. "Undoing American Literary History." Diacritics 11.3 (Fall 1981): 2-12.

Sunquist, Eric J . "American Literary History: The Next Century." American Literature 67.4 (Dec 1995): 793-831.

Vallier, Jane. "The Role of Celia Thaxter in American Literary History: An Overview." Colby Library Quarterly 17.4 (Dec 1981): 238-55.

Vella, Michael W. "Theology, Genre, and Gender: The Precarious Place of Hannah Adams in American Literary History." Early American Literature 28.1 (1993): 21-41.

West, Cornel. "Minority Discourse and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation." Yale Journal of Criticism 1.1 (Fall 1987): 193-201.

Wiget, Andrew. "Reading against the Grain: Origin Stories and American Literary History. American Literary History 3.2 (Sumr 1991): 209-31.  

Williams, Sherley A. "Some Implications of Feminist Theory." Griot 6.2 (Sumr 1987): 40-45.

- - -. "Some Implications of Womanist Theory." Callaloo 9.2 (Sprg 1986): 303-08.

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