Acknowledgements
Introduction
SECTION 1: RUSSIAN FORMALISM AND PRAGUE STRUCTURALISM
Art as Technique; V.Shklovsky
The Dominant; R.Jakobson
The Object, Tasks and Methods of Literary History; P.N. Medvedev & M.Bakhtin
Aesthetic Function, Norm and Value as Social Facts; J.Mukarovsky
SECTION 2: THE NEW CRITICISM AND LEAVISIAN CRITICISM
Poetry and Beliefs; I.A. Richards
The Formalist Critic; C.Brooks
Formalist Criticism: Its Principles and Limits; K.Burke
The Relevant Context of a Literary Text; J.M.Ellis
Literary Criticism and Philosophy; F.R.Leavis
Object, Feeling and Judgement: F.R. Leavis; J.Casey
SECTION 3: HERMENEUTICS
Language as Determination of the Hermeneutic Object; H.G.Gadamer
Three Dimensions of Hermeneutics; E.D.Hirsch,Jr
The Appeal to the Text: What are we Appealing to?; P.D.Juhl
The Conflict of Interpretations; P.Ricoeur
Breaking the Circle: Hermeneutics as Disclosure; W.V.Spanos
SECTION 4: LINGUISTICS CRITICISM
Linguistics and Poetics; R.Jakobson
Literature as Discourse; R.Fowler
SECTION 5: STRUCTURALISM AND SEMIOTICS
Definition of Poetics; T.Todorov
Structuralism and Literary Criticism; G.Genette
Science versus Literature; R.Barthes
Semiotics as a Theory of Reading; J.Culler
The Content and Structure of the Concept of 'Literature'; Y.M.Lotman
The Problem of Interpretation; M.Peckham
SECTION 6: POST-STRUCTURALISM
Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences; J.Derrida
The Death of the Author; R.Barthes
The System and the Speaking Subject; J.Kristeva
Lecture: 7 January 1976; M.Foucault
The Resistance to Theory; P.de Man
SECTION 7: PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
Reading and Identity: A Psychoanalytic Revolution; N.N.Holland
Poetry, Revisionism and Repression; H.Bloom
The Madness of Interpretation: Literature and Psychoanalysis; S.Felman
SECTION 8: MARXIST AND NEO-MARXIST CRITICISM
English Poets: The Decline of Capitalism; C.Caudwell
Critical Realism and Socialist Realism; G.Lukacs
The Author as Producer; W.Benjamin
Towards a Science of the Text; T.Eagleton S/Z; R.Coward & J.Ellis
On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act; F.Jameson
SECTION 9: RECEPTION THEORY AND READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM
Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory; H.R.Jauss
Indeterminacy and the Reader's Response; W.Iser
The Subjective Character of Critical Interpretation; D.Bleich
Interpreting the Variorum; S.Fish
SECTION 10: FEMINIST CRITICISM
Beyond the Net: Feminist Criticism as Moral Criticism; J.Donovan
Towards a Feminist Poetics; E.Showalter
Sexual Politics and Critical Judgement; E.A.Messe
Conversations; H.Cixous
SECTION 11: CULTURAL MATERIALISM AND THE NEW HISTORICISM
Dominant, Residual and Emergent; R.Williams
Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture; L.A.Montrose
Reading Dissidence; A.Sinfield
SECTION 12: NEW PRAGMATISM
Against Theory; S.Knapp & W.B.Michaels
Consequences; S.Fish
SECTION 13: POSTMODERNISM
Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; F.Jameson
Theorizing the Postmodern; L.Hutcheon
SECTION 14: POST-COLONIAL CRITICISM
Overlapping Territories, Enterwined Histories; E.Said
The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse; H.K.Bhabha
Index.