Introduction 1
Volume 1 3
Chapter One Russian Formalism1 3
Chapter Two The Anglo-American New Criticism 20
Chapter Three Marxist Criticism 26
Chapter Four Psychological and Psychoanalytic Criticism 37
Chapter Five Myth and Archetypal Criticism 46
Chapter Six Structuralist Criticism 53
Chapter Seven Reception-Aesthetics and Reader-Response Theory 60
Chapter Eight Post-structuralism 68
Chapter Nine Postmodernism 77
Volume 2 89
Chapter Ten Feminist Criticism 89
Chapter Eleven New Historicism 97
Chapter Twelve Post-Colonialist Studies 109
Chapter Thirteen Gender Studies 119
Chapter Fourteen Cultural Studies 137
Chapter Fifteen Ecological Literary Criticism 152
Chapter Sixteen Ecological Postmodernism 173
Chapter Seventeen Post-humanism 190
Chapter Eighteen Postmodern Ethical Literary Criticism 202
Bibliography 249