T.S. Eliot, The waste Land

understanding of the theories studied by discussing them in relation to a text. This task gives you the freedom to write about what you find interesting, but your essay should do the following: Discuss the essays/extracts by Roland Barthes ‘The Death of the Author’, Wolfgang Iser ‘ Interaction between text and Reader’, and/or Jacques Derrida ‘Structure, Sign, and Play’. Use relevant theoretical terms accurately Offer sustained close reading of the primary text on Eliot Draw on other critical secondary reading as appropriate These are some references to use for the work Brooker, P. and Widdowson, P. (eds) (1996) A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Prentice Hall. Leitch, V.. et al. (eds) (2001) The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton. Lodge, D. and Wood. N. (eds) (3rd ed., 2008) Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Harlow: Pearson. Niall, L. (ed.) (2000). Postmodern Literary Theory: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell. Rivkin, J. and Ryan, M. (eds) (2nd ed., 2004) Literary Theory: An Anthology. Oxford: Edinburgh University Press. Burke, S. (2nd ed., 1998) The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Culler, J. (1983) On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism. London: Routledge and Kegan