2For 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.
3For some discussions of the current situation of theory see Derek Attridge and Jane Elliott, eds. , Theory after Theory, Routledge, 2010.
4Jonathan 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.
5See Vicki Hearne, Adam's Task, Knopf, 1986. For "being with animals", see Donna Haraway, When Species Meet, Minnesota, 2007.
6Two 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.
7Laura Brown, Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes, Cornell, 2010.
8Lawrence 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.
9Patricia Yeager, "Sea Trash, Dark Pools, and the Tragedy of the Commons", in PMLA, vol. 125, No. 3, May 2010.
10Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto", in Simians, Cyborgs and Women, Routledge, 1991.
