The Essays for Paper 3

1. “What is an Author” - Michael Foucault

2. “The Death of an Author” - Ronald Barth

3. “ From Work to Text” - Ronald Barth

4. “ Defining the Postmodern” - Jean-François Lyotard

5. “One is not born a Women” - Monique Wittig

6. “ On the abolition of the English Department” - Ngugi O` Thiongo

7. “Talking Black : Critical Signs of the Times” - Louis Henry Gates, Jr

8. “ The Semiotic and the Symbolic” - Julia Kristeva

9. “Interaction between Text and Reader”- Wolfgang Iser

10. “Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies”- Stuart Hall

11. “A manifesto of Cybourge: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in

1980s” -

12. “Modernity: An Incomplete Project” - Jurgen Habermas

13. “Language” - Martin Heidegger

14. “Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” - Walter Benjamin

15. “Performative Utterance” - J. L. Austin

16. “Semiology and Rhetoric” - Paul de Man

17. “Literary history a challenge to literary theory”- Hans Robert Jauss