SAMPLE BIBLIOGRAPHY

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THE BIBLIOGRAPHY
(he subject chosen is Post-structuralism
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(he topic has a lot of material. (o reduce this and to ensure that
references will be up to date, only items published between *223 and
45 in 6nglish have been used. " wide range of information sources has
been consulted to ensure a balance of approach and of types of material,
though sources without good academic validity, eg webpages of
individuals, have been e/cluded.
It was important in doing the search to remember that there are two
possible ways of writing the search term, &ost-structuralism'
&oststructuralism( and to search under both.
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the Modern Language Association of America, **; &44', 4*-<
"rmstrong, 0ancy, 8=ho9s "fraid of the Cultural (urn>:, Differences, *4
&4*', *;-42
"rnold, )tephen $., 8Carpe #illennium+ 0iyi ?sundare9s Seize the Day and
"frican @iterature and the Crisis in Post-)tructuralist (heorising:,
Anglophonia, ; &4', 45-54
Aennett, (ony, 8(e/ts in $istory+ (he Beterminations of %eadings and (heir
(e/ts:, in Reception Study: rom Literary !heory to "ultural Studies, ed.
by 7ames @. #achor and Philip .oldstein &0ew Cork+ %outledge, 4*', pp.
<*-;4
Aeran, Bavid, #arly $ritish Romanticism% the ran&furt School% and rench
Post'Structuralism: (n the )a&e of ailed Re*olution, )tudies on (hemes
and #otifs in @iterature, !5 &0ew Cork+ Peter @ang, 4*'
Arooker, 7oe, 8(he Didelity of (heory+ 7ames 7oyce and the %hetoric of
Aelatedness:, in +oyce,s Audiences, ed. by 7ohn 0ash &"msterdam,
0etherlands + %odopi, 44', pp. 4*-4*
Chow, %ey, 8(he Interruption of %eferentiality+ Poststructuralism and the
Conundrum of Critical #ulticulturalism:, South Atlantic -uarterly, **
&44', *;*-3<
Chow, %ey, 8(he %esistance of (heoryE or, (he =orth of "gony:, in +ust
$eing Difficult. Academic )riting in the Public Arena, ed. by 7onathan
Culler and Fevin @amb &)tanford, C" + )tanford GP, 45', pp. 2!-*!
Culler, 7onathan, !he Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics% Literature%
Deconstruction, augmented edn with a new preface by the author &Ithaca,
0C+ Cornell Gniversity Press, 4*'
Basenbrock, %eed =ay, 8=hy (here "re 0o Poststructuralists in
"dministrative Do/holes:, AD# $ulletin, *4< &4', 44-4!
Deldman, #atthew, 8HI In1uired into #yselfH+ Aeckett, Interpretation,
Phenomenology:, Samuel $ec&ett !oday/Au0ourd,hui, *4 &44', 4*!-54
DitI, 6arl 6, Se1uality and $eing in the Poststructuralist 2ni*erse of "larice
Lispector: !he Differance of Desire &"ustin, (J + Gniversity of (e/as Press,
4*'
Driedman, .eraldine, 8Pseudonymity, Passing, and Kueer Aiography+ (he
Case of #ary Biana Bods:, Romanticism on the 3et, 45 &"ugust 4*'
Lhttp+,,users.o/.ac.uk,Mscat53!,45friedman.htmlN O"ccessed *!
Becember 45P
.hambou, 6l #okhtar, 80omadism and Its Drontiers: &unpublished doctoral
dissertation, 0ew Cork Gniversity, 4E abstract in Dissertation Abstracts
(nternational, <* &4*', 4;<*-"'.
$all, .ary, "ulture in $its: !he Monstrous uture of !heory &@ondon+
Continuum, 44'
$Qnninen, Gkko, 8Poststructuralism and the %ebirth of the "uthor:, in
Proceedings from the 4th 3ordic "onference on #nglish Studies, ed. by
)anna-Faisa (anskanen R Arita =Srvik &(urku, Dinland+ Gniversity of
(urku, *222', pp. 44!-4!4
$ansen, #ark, #mbodying !echnesis: !echnology beyond )riting,
foreword by Fatherine 0. $ayles &"nn "rbor, #I+ Gniversity of #ichigan
Press, 4'
$arding, "nthony 7ohn, 8)ubject, )elf, Person+ #arcel #auss and the
@imits of Poststructuralist Criti1ue:, in !hresholds of )estern "ulture:
(dentity% Postcoloniality% !ransnationalism, ed. by 7ohn Aurt Doster, 7r.,
and =ayne 7effrey Droman &0ew Cork+ Continuum, 44' pp. 54-44
$ennelly, #ark #., 7r., 8Draming the .othic+ Drom Pillar to Post-
)tructuralism:, "ollege Literature, 43 &4*', <3-3;
7ackson, "lecia Coungblood, 8#ultiple "nnies+ Deminist Poststructuralist
(heory and the #aking of a (eacher:, +ournal of !eacher #ducation, !4
&4*', 53<-2;
7ones, %oger, 8Post )tructuralism:, in Philosophy since the #nlightenment
Lhttp+,,www.philosopher.org.ukN Oaccessed *3 Becember 45P
7uvan, #arko, 8?n @iterariness+ Drom Post-)tructuralism to )ystems
(heory:, in "omparati*e Literature and "omparati*e "ultural Studies, ed.
by )teven (otosy de Tepetnek &=est @afayette, I0+ Purdue Gniversity
Press, 45', pp. ;<-2<
@awrence, Faren %., 8Postpoststructuralist "dministration+ " Gser9s
#anual:, AD# $ulletin, *4< &4', *3-4*
@urie, )usan, and others, 8%estoring Deminist Politics to Poststructuralist
Criti1ue:, eminist Studies, 4; &4*', <;2-;;
#iall, Bavid ), and Bon Fuiken, 8(he Dorm of %eading+ 6mpirical )tudies of
@iterariness:, Poetics, 4! &*223', 54;-4*
#oulthrop, )tuart, 8(esting the =ires:, in Reimagining !e1tuality: !e1tual
Studies in the Late Age of Print, ed. by 6liIabeth Aergmann @oiIeIu/ and
0eil Draistat &#adison, =I + Gniversity of =isconsin Press, 44', pp. 44!-
4
0ewman, )aul, 8Gniversalism,Particularism+ (owards a Poststructuralist
Politics of Gniversality:, 3e5 ormations, 4* &4', 2!-*3
0orman, %enee, House of Mirrors: Performing Autobiograph6icall7y in
Language/#ducation, Counterpoints+ )tudies in the Postmodern (heory of
6ducation, *4< &0ew Cork+ Peter @ang, 4*'
Paglia, Camille, 8Dilm+ (he one-hundred year $itch+ a portrait of the
#aster:, !he 8bser*er, 3 "ugust *222, p. <
%egard, Drederic, 8(he 6thics of Aiographical %eading+ " Pragmatic
"pproach:, "ambridge -uarterly, 42 &4', 524-43
%eilly, "nne Fathleen, 8(he (e/tual Bimensions of Post-)tructuralist
(hought: &unpublished doctoral dissertation, Gniversity of =isconsin,
#adison, 44E abstract in Dissertation Abstracts (nternational, <5
&44', 5253-"'
)cott, 7oan =., 8Beconstructing 61uality-versus-Bifference or, the Gses of
Poststructuralist (heory for Deminism:, in !heorizing eminism: Parallel
!rends in the Humanities and Social Sciences, ed. by "nne C. $errmann
and "bigail 7. )tewart &Aoulder, C? + =estview, 4*', pp. 4!4-;
)edgwick, 6ve Fosofsky, 8Areast Cancer+ "n "dventure in "pplied
Beconstruction:, in eminist !heory and the $ody: A Reader, ed. by 7anet
Price and #argrit )hildrick &0ew Cork+ %outledge, *222', pp. *!5-!<
)polsky, 6llen, 8Barwin and Berrida+ Cognitive @iterary (heory as a
)pecies of Post-)tructuralism:, Poetics !oday, 45 &44', 45-<4
(erada, %ei, eeling in !heory: #motion after the 9Death of Sub0ect9,
&Cambridge, #" + $arvard Gniversity Press, 4*'
(ihanov, .alin, 8#ikhail Aakhtin:, in Postmodernism: !he :ey igures, ed.
by $ans Aertens and 7oseph 0atoli &#alden, #" + Alackwell, 44', pp.
4!-5*
=ebb, Patricia, 8(echnologies of Bifference+ %eading the Uirtual "ge
through )e/ual &In'Bifference:, "omputers and "omposition 4 &45',
*!*-<;
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)tudent =riting:, in A Sourceboo& for Responding to Student )riting, ed.
by %ichard )traub &Cresskill, 07+ $ampton, *222', pp. 22-*<
=idder, 0athan, 8.enealogies of Bifference: &unpublished doctoral thesis,
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<* &4', 3;5-C'
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