ABBREVIATIONS OF FREQUENTLY CITED TEXTS

AR	Paul de Man. Allegories of Reading. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
B	Wayne Booth. “‘Preserving the Exemplar’: or, How Not to Dig Our Own Graves.” Critical Inquiry 3:3 (1977), 407–23.
BI	Paul de Man. Blindness and Insight. 2d ed., revised. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
CU	Wayne Booth. Critical Understanding. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
F	Stanley Fish. Is There a Text in This Class? Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
FM	Louis Althusser. For Marx. London: New Left Books, 1977.
G	Suzanne Gearhart. “Philosophy before Literature: Deconstruction, Historicity, and the Work of Paul de Man.” Diacritics 13:4 (1983), 63–81.
H	E. D. Hirsch, Jr. The Aims of Interpretation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
K	James Kavanagh. “‘To the Same Defect’: Toward a Critique of the Ideology of the Aesthetic.” In Literature and Ideology, ed. Harry R. Garvin. East Brunswick, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1982.
KM	Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels. “Against Theory.” Critical Inquiry 8:4 (1982), 723–42.
LP	Louis Althusser. Lenin and Philosophy. London: Monthly Review Press, 1971.
M	Pierre Macherey. A Theory of Literary Production. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.
NA	Garry Wills. Nixon Agonistes. New York: Signet, 1971.
OD	Jonathan Culler. On Deconstruction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.
PR	M. H. Abrams. “How to Do Things with Texts.” Partisan Review 46:4 (1979), 566–88.
PU	Fredric Jameson. The Political Unconscious. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981.
R	Paul de Man. “The Resistance to Theory.” Yale French Studies 63 (1982), 3–20.
RC	Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar. Reading Capital. London: New Left Books, 1979.
RW	Raymond Williams. “Marxism, Structuralism and Literary Analysis.” New Left Review 129 (September/October 1981).
S	Gayatri Spivak. In Other Words. New York: Methuen, 1987.
SC	Louis Althusser. Essays in Self-Criticism. London: New Left Books, 1976.