The Norton anthology of theory and criticism / Vincent B. Leitch, general editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gorgias of Leontini -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Horace -- Longinus -- Augustine of Hippo -- Moses Maimonides -- Thomas Aquinas -- Dante Alighieri -- Giovanni Boccaccio -- Christine De Pizan -- Joachim Du Bellay -- Giacopo Mazzoni -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Pierre Corneille -- John Dryden -- Aphra Behn -- Giambattista Vico -- Joseph Addison -- Alexander Pope -- Samuel Johnson -- David Hume -- Immanuel Kant -- Edmund Burke -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- Friedrich von Schiller -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Germaine Necker De Staël -- Friedrich Schleiermacher -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- Charles Baudelaire -- Matthew Arnold -- Walter Pater -- Stéphane Mallerme ́-- Henry James -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Oscar Wilde -- ++ Sigmund Freud -- Ferdinanc De Saussure -- W.E.b. Du Bois -- Leon Trotsky -- Virginia Woolf -- György Luḱacs -- Boris Eichenbaum -- T.S. Eliot -- John Crowe Ransom -- Martin Heidegger -- Antonio Gramsci -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Erich Auerbach -- Walter Benjamin -- Mikhail M. Bakhtin -- Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno -- Edmund Wilson -- Roman Jakobson -- Jacques Lacan -- Langston Hughes -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Cleanth Brooks -- William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley -- Simone De Beauvoir -- Claude Lévi-Strauss -- J.L. Austin -- Northrop Frye -- Roland Barthes -- Louis Althusser -- Paul De Man -- C.D. Narasimhaiah -- Irving Howe -- Hans Robert Jauss -- Raymond Williams -- Gilles Deleuze and Feĺix Guattari -- Frantz Fanon -- Jean-Franco̦is Lyotard -- Michel Foucault -- Wolfgang Iser -- Hayden White -- Jean Baudrillard -- Jur̈gen Habermas -- Adrienne Rich -- Chinua Achebe -- Adūnīs -- Harold Bloom -- Pierre Bourdieu -- ++ Jacques Derrida -- Zehou Li -- Richard Ohmann -- Stuart Hall -- Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- Fredric Jameson -- Edward W. Said -- Monique Wittig -- Benedict Anderson -- Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- Heĺeǹe Cixous -- Gerald Graff -- Stanley E. Fish -- Ngugi Waťhiongo̕, Taban Lo Liyong, Henry Owuor-Anyumba -- Paula Gunn Allen -- Tzvetan Todorov -- Karatani Kōjin -- Annette Kolodny -- Julia Kristeva -- Laura Mulvey -- Gloria Anzalduá -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Barbara Christian -- Terry Eagleton -- Stephen J. Greenblatt -- N. Katherine Hayles -- Donna Haraway -- Barbara Smith -- Susan Bordo -- Barbara Johnson -- Bruno Latour -- Martha C. Nussbaum -- Bonnie Zimmerman -- Homi K. Bhabha -- Gayle Rubin -- Slavoj Žižek -- Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Franco Moretti -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Dick Hebdige -- Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michels -- Bell Hooks -- Lisa Lowe -- Judith Butler -- Paul Gilroy -- Andrew Ross -- Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner -- Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- Judith Halberstam.

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism presents a staggeringly varied collection of the most influential critical statements from the classical era to the present day. Edited by scholars and teachers whose interests range from the history of poetics to postmodernism, from classical rhetoric to eriture feminine, and from the social construction of gender to the machinery of academic superstardom, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism promises to become the standard anthology in its field. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism offers nearly twice the number of selections in other leading anthologies and more twentieth-century selections than any other text (including anthologies devoted solely to the twentieth century). Edited by scholars and teachers whose interests range from the history of poetics to postmodernism, from classical rhetoric to eriture feminine, and from the social construction of gender to the machinery of academic superstardom, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism promises to become the standard anthology in its field.