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Orientation of critical theories / M.H. Abrams -- The symbolism of poetry / W.B. Yeats -- Creative writers and day-dreaming / Sigmund Freud -- Preface to The Ambassadors / Henry James -- A retrospect / Ezra Pound -- Tradition and the individual talent ; The function of criticism / T.S. Eliot -- Modern fiction / Virginia Woolf -- Romanticism and classicism / T.E. Hulme -- Communication and the artist ; The two uses of language ; The four kinds of meaning / I.A. Richards -- The spirit of place ; Morality and the novel ; Why the novel matters / D.H. Lawrence -- [Flat and round characters and ''point of view''] / E.M. Forster -- [Ambiguity of the first type] / William Empson -- Macbeth and the metaphysic of evil / G. Wilson Knight -- Psychology and literature / C.G. Jung -- [Archetypes in The ancient mariner] / Maud Bodkin -- [English poets at the time of the Industrial Revolution] / Christopher Caudwell -- Restoration comedy : the reality and the myth / L.C. Knights -- Criticism Inc. / John Crowe Ransom -- Marxism and literature / Edmund Wilson -- [Poetry and abstract thought : dancing and walking] / Paul Valéry -- Regulated hatred : an aspect of the work of Jane Austen / D.W. Harding -- Freud and literature / Lionel Trilling -- The language of paradox / Cleanth Brooks -- Preliminary problems / Yvor Winters -- Odysseus'' scar / Erich Auerbach -- The intentional fallacy ; The affective fallacy / W.K. Wimsatt Jnr and Monroe C. Beardsley -- Politics and the English language / George Orwell -- Why write? / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Technique as discovery / Mark Schorer -- Oedipus Rex : the tragic rhythm of action / Francis Fergusson -- The archetypes of literature ; Literature as context : Milton''s Lycidas / Northrop Frye -- De descriptione temporum / C.S. Lewis -- The middle against both ends / Leslie Fiedler -- A future for the novel / Alain Robbe-Grillet -- The ideology of modernism / Georg Lukács -- The ''real'' world of people : illustrations from popular art : Peg''s paper / Richard Hoggart -- A dialectic of aural and objective correlatives / Walter J. Ong -- The excremental vision / Norman O. Brown -- The first paragraph of The Ambassadors / Ian Watt -- [Incest and myth] / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Literary theory, criticism, and history / René Wellek -- [Objectivity in fiction] / Wayne Booth -- Realism and the contemporary novel / Raymond Williams -- The Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, and the history of ideas / R.S. Crane -- [The Dunciad and the Gütenberg galaxy] / Marshall McLuhan -- F.R. Leavis / George Steiner -- Writing / W.H. Auden -- Criticism as language / Roland Barthes -- Against interpretation / Susan Sontag -- Objects, jokes, and art / Frank Kermode.