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", pub- lished in 2011.
2For some discussions of the current situation of theory see Derek Attridge and Jane Elliott, eds. , Theory after Theory, Routledge, 2010.
3Jonathan Culler, " ' Critical Paradigms' , Introduction to ' Literary Criticism for the 21st Century' ", in PMLA, vol. 125, No. 4, October 2010, and also the new final chapter of Culler, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford Universi- ty Press, revised edition, 2011.
4See Vicki Hearne, Adam's Task, Knopf, 1986. For "being with animals", see Donna Haraway, When Species Meet, Minnesota, 2007.
5Two general sources for the question are Matthew Carlaco, Zoographies : The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrda, Columbia, 2008, and Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, Cary Wolfe, ed. , Minnesota, 2003.
6Laura Brown, Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes, Cornell, 2010.
7Lawrence 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.
8Patricia Yeager, "Sea Trash, Dark Pools, and the Tragedy of the Commons", in PMLA, vol. 125, No. 3, May 2010.
9Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto", in Simians, Cyborgs and Women, Routledge, 1991.
10also Cary Wolfe, What is Posthumanism? Minnesota, 2010.
