1For discussion of "theory" see Jonathan Culler, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 1997, chapter 1. There now exists a new edition with a revised bibliography and new final chapter, "Ethics and Aesthetics," published in 2011.
2For some discussions of the current situation of theory see Derek Attridge and Jane Elliott, eds. Theory after Theory, Routledge, 2010; Jonathan Culler, "Critical Paradigms," Introduction to "Literary Criticism for the 21st Century," PMLA, Vol. 125, No. 4, October 2010, and also the new final chapter of Culler, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, revised edition, 2011.
3Vicki Hearne, Adam' s Task ( Knopf, 1986). For "being with animals," see Donna Haraway, When Species Meet ( Minnesota, 2007).
4Two general sources for the question are Matthew Carlaco, Zoographies : The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida. ( Columbia, 2008 ), and Zoontologies : The Question of the Animal, ed. Cary Wolfe ( Minnesota, 2003 ).
5Laura Brown, Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes (Cornell, 2010).
6Lawrence Buell, Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond (Harvard, 2001 ) is an important early example. Greg Garrard, Ecocriticism (Routledge 2004) is a short, accessible introduction.
7Patricia Yeager, "Sea Trash, Dark Pools, and the Tragedy of the Commons," PMLA 225 (May 2010).
8Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto," collected in her Simians, Cyborgs and Women (Routledge, 1991 ).
9See also, Cary Wolfe, What is Posthumanism? (Minnesota, 2010).
10For the ideological critique of aesthetics, see Terry Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Blackwell, 1991 ).
