CONTENTS 1
Matthew Arnold 1
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time 3
Oscar Wilde 46
The Improvidence of Art 48
From The Decay of Lying 50
Henry James 66
The Art of Fiction 68
Virginia Woolf 102
Mr．Bennett and Mrs．Brown 105
Thomas Stearns Eliot 135
Tradition and the Individual Talent 137
Hamlet and His Problems 151
Ivor Armstrong Richards 160
From Principles of Literary Criticism 162
From Practical Criticism 176
Edmund Wilson 188
From Historical Criticism 190
Cleanth Brooks 210
Irony as a Principle of Structure 212
W．K．Wimsatt and Monroe C．Beardsley 236
The Intentional Fallacy 238
The Affective Fallacy 263
René Wellek 293
The Mode of Existence of a Literary 295
Work of Art 295
Northrop Frye 322
The Archetypes of Literature 324
Harry Levin 348
Literature as an Institution 350
E．D．Hirsch．Jr． 374
Objective Interpretation 376
Stanley E．Fish 433
Literature in the Reader：Affective Stylistics（abridged） 435
Jonathan Culler 485
Literary Competence 487
Terry Eagleton 520
Literary Theory：an Introduction 522
Appendix I：Selected References 555
The Main Trends of Twentieth-Century Criticism by RenéWellek 556
What Was New Criticism？by Gerald Graff 582
Literary Critioism in France（Ⅰ）by Martin Turnell 613
Literary Criticism in France（Ⅱ）by Martin Turnell 641
Freud and Literature by Lionel Trilling 669
Appendix Ⅱ：Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms 701