List of Contributors xix // Introduction: criticism, theory, and anti-theory - Patricia Waugh 1 // Part I Concepts of criticism and aesthetic origins 35 // 1 Mimesis: ancient Greek literary theory - Andrea Nightingale 37 // 2 Expressivity: the Romantic theory of authorship - Andrew Bennett 48 // 3 Interpretation: hermeneutics - Timothy Clark 59 // 4 Value: criticism, canons, and evaluation - Patricia Waugh 70 // Part II Criticism and critical practices in the twentieth century 83 // 5 Literature and the academy - Chris Baldick 85 // 6 I. A. Richards - Ann Banfield 96 // 7 T. S. Eliot and the idea of tradition - Gareth Reeves 107 // 8 Anthropology and/as myth in modern criticism - Michael Bell 119 // 9 F. R. Leavis: criticism and culture - Gary Day 130 // 10 Marxist aesthetics - Tony Davies 140 // 11 William Empson: from verbal analysis to cultural criticism - David Fuller 152 // 12 The New Criticism - Stephen Matterson 166 // 13 The intentional fallacy - Peter Lamarque 177 // 14 Adorno and the Frankfurt School - Andrew Bowie 189 // 15 Freud and psychoanalysis - Céline Surprenant 199 // 16 The Russian debate on narrative - Gary Saul Morson 212 // 17 Bakhtin and the dialogic principle - Lynne Pearce 223 // 18 Form, rhetoric, and intellectual history - Faiza W. Shereen 233 // 19 Literature into culture: Cultural Studies after Leavis - Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon 245 //
Part III Literary theory: movements and schools 257 // 20 Structuralism and narrative poetics - Susana Onega 259 // 21 Psychoanalysis after Freud - Josiane Paccaud-Huguet 280 // 22 Deconstruction - Alex Thomson 298 // 23 Feminisms - Fiona Tolan 319 // 24 Postcolonialism - Elieke Boehmer 340 // 25 Race, nation, and ethnicity - Kathleen Kerr 362 // 26 Reconstructing historicism -. Paul Flamilton 386 // 27 Postmodernism - Chris Snipp-Walmsley 405 // 28 Sexualities - Tony Purvis 427 // 29 Science and criticism: beyond the culture wars - Christopher Norris 451 // Part IV Futures and retrospects 473 // 30 Performing literary interpretation - K. M. Newton 475 // 31 The responsibilities of the writer - Sean Burke 486 // 32 Mixing memory and desire: psychoanalysis, psychology, and trauma theory - Roger Luckhurst 497 // 33 Theories of the gaze - Jeremy Hawthorn 508 // 34 Anti-canon theory - David Punter 519 // 35 Environmentalism and ecocriticism - Richard Kerridge 530 // 36 Cognitive literary criticism - Alan Richardson 544 // 37 Writing excess: the poetic principle of post-literary culture - Scott Wilson 557 // Index 569