1 What is literature，what is a text？ 1
1 Genre，text type and discourse 3
2 Primary and secondary sources 5
2 Major genres in textual studies 9
1 Fiction 10
2 Poetry 28
3 Drama 44
4 Film 56
3 Periods of English Literatures 67
4 Theoretical approaches to literature 75
1 Text-oriented approaches 79
2 Author-oriented approaches 90
3 Reader-oriented approaches 92
4 Context-oriented approaches 94
5 Literary critique or evaluation 100
5 Where and how to find secondary literature 103
6 How to write a scholarly paper 109
7 Suggestions for further reading 121
8 Glossary of literary and cinematographic terms 131
Notes 149
Author and title index 151
Subject index 159