第一编 诗歌 1
W.B.Yeats：The Symbolism of Poetry 7
Ezra Pound：A Retrospect 21
T.S.Eliot：Tradition and the Individual Talent 39
Paul Valery：Poetry and Abstract Thought：Dancing and Walking 51
Yvor Winters：Preliminary Problems 68
Northrop Frye：Literature as Context：Milton’s Lycidas 85
第二编 小说 97
Henry James：Preface to The Ambassadors 104
Virginia Woolf：Modern Fiction 122
D.H.Lawrence：Morality and the Novel 135
Why the Novel Matters 141
Jean-Paul Sartre：Why Write？ 153
Georg Luckacs：The Ideology of Modernism 169
Wayne Booth：“Objectivity” in Fiction 187
第三编 戏剧 201
G.Wilson Knight：Macbeth and the Metaphysic of Evil 207
L.C.Knights：Restoration Comedy：The Reality and the Myth 232
Francis Fergusson：Oedipus Rex：The Tragic Rhythm of Action 258
Christopher Innes：Modernism in Drama 291
Raymond Williams：Modern Tragedy 328
Terry Eagleton：The Value of Agony 351
批评方法概览 375
T.S.Eliot：The Function of Criticism 379
Edmund Wilson：Marxism and Literature 395
Roland Barthes：Criticism as Language 418
Susan Sontag：Against Interpretation 429
Sara Blair：Modernism and the Politics of Culture 450
Marianne Dekoven：Modernism and Gender 480
Astradur Eysteinsson：The Making of Modernist Paradigms 511
Julia Kristeva：From One Identity to an Other 554
Steven Connor：Rewriting Wrong：On the Ethics of Literary Reversion 586
Anne Balsamo：Feminism for the Incurably Informed 604
Ralph Cohen：Do Postmodern Genres Exist？ 645
John Barth：The Literature of Exhaustion 673
Chinua Achebe：Colonialist Criticism 696
Kwame Anthony Appiah：The Postcolonial and the Postmodern 709
Partha Chatterjee：Nationalism as a Problem 725
David Lodge：Modernism，Antimodernism and Postmodernism 734