CONTENTS
Preface = ⅶ
Acknowledgments = xiii
Introduction : Literary Theory, Critical Practice, and the Classroom / G. DOUGLAS ATKINS = 1
The New Criticism : Then and Now / JOHN R. WILLINGHAM = 24
Archetypal Criticism / RICHARD F. HARDIN = 42
Creating the World : Structuralism and Semiotics / LORI HOPE LEFKOVITZ = 60
Whirl without End : Audience-Oriented Criticism / PETER J. RABINOWITZ = 81
Like the Glaze on a Kartydid-Wing : Phenomenological Criticism / ROBERT MAGLIOLA = 101
Hermeneutics / JOEL WEINSHEIMER = 117
Deconstruction : Critical Strategy/Strategic Criticism / DANNY J. ANDERSON = 137
Reading after Freud / DAVID WILLBERN = 158
The Critical Quilt : Alternative Authority in Feminist Criticism / CHERYL B. TORSNEY = 180
Political Criticism / MICHAEL RYAN = 200
Dialogic Criticism / DON BIALOSTOSKY = 214
Genealogical Critique : Michel Foucault and the Systems of Thought / KARLIS RACEVSKIS = 229
Notes on Contributors = 247