Table of Contents

Psychoanalytic Criticism The Unconscious and the Defenses * Dreams * Dream Symbols * Death and Sexuality * Psychoanalysis and Literature * A Psychoanalytic Reading of The Great Gatsby; * Marxist Criticism Marxist Premises * Ideology and Human Behavior * Marxism and Literature * A Marxist Reading of The Great Gatsby * Feminist Criticism Feminist Premises * Multicultural Feminism * Feminism and Literature * A Feminist Reading of The Great Gatsby * New Criticism "The Text Itself": Literary Language and Organic Unity * A Close Reading of Lucille Clifton's "There Is a Girl Inside" * Objective Criticism and the "Single Best Reading" * A New Critical Reading of The Great Gatsby * Reader-Response Criticism Transactional, Subjective, Psychological, and Social Theories * Affective Stylistics * Defining Readers * A Reader-Response Analysis of The Great Gatsby * Structuralist Criticism Structural Linguistics and Anthropology * Semiotic Theory * Structuralist Approaches to Literature *A Structuralist Reading of The Great Gatsby * Deconstructive Criticism Deconstructing Language and Human Identity * Deconstructing Literature * Deconstructing Frost's "Mending Wall" * A Deconstructive Reading of The Great Gatsby * New Historical and Cultural Criticism New Historicism: History, Subjectivity, and Discourse * Cultural Criticism: Politics, Power, and Popular Culture * New Historicism * Cultural Criticism, and Literature * A New Historical Reading of The Great Gatsby * Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Criticism The Marginalization of Lesbians and Gay Men * Lesbian Criticism/Gay Criticism/Queer Criticism * Shared Features of Lesbian Gay, and Queer Criticism * A Queer Reading of The Great Gatsby * Postcolonial and African American Criticism Postcolonial Identity, Debates, and Approaches to Literature * African American Literary History, Tradition, and Current Trends * Shared Features of Postcolonial and African American Criticism * A Postcolonial Reading of The Great Gatsby * Courses for Adoption Critical Theory * Literary Criticism/Theory, Literature and Philosophy