I Historical Criticism I: Author as Context Theory E.D. Hirsch, Jr
Objective Interpretation George Watson
Are Poems Historical Acts?
Applications Paul Yachnin
Shakespeare and the Idea of Obedience: Gonzalo in The Tempest Allen C. Austin
Toward Resolving Keats's Grecian Urn Ode Sidney Kaplan
Herman Melville and the American National Sin: The Meaning of Benito Cereno Denise D. Knight
The Yellow Wall-Paper
II Formal Criticism: Poem as Context THEORY Cleanth Brooks, Irony as a Principle of Structure John Ellis
The Relevant Context of a Literary Text Applications Russ McDonald
Reading The Tempest David A. Kent
On the Third Stanza of Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Bruce A. Bickley
The Method of Melville's Short Fiction: "Benito Cereno" Conrad Shumaker
"Too Terribly Good To Be Printed": Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
III Reader-Response Criticism: Audience as Context Theory Wolfgang Iser
Readers and the Concept of the Implied Reader Norman Holland, The Miller's Wife and the Professors APPLICATIONS Ole Martin Skilleas, Anachronistic
Themes and Literary Value: The Tempest Douglas B. Wilson
Reading the Urn: Death in Keats's Arcadia Catharine O'Connell, Narrative Collusion and Occlusion in Melville's "Benito Cereno" Annette Kolodny
A Map for Rereading: Or, Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts
IV Mimetic Criticism: Reality as Context Theory Bernard Paris
The Uses of Psychology Josephine Donovan
Beyond the Net: Feminist Criticism as a Moral Criticism Applications Bernard Paris
The Tempest Eva T.H. Brann, Pictures in Poetry: Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Allan Moore Emery
The Topicality of Depravity in "Benito Cereno" Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
V Intertextual Criticism: Literature as Context Theory Northrop Frye
The Critical Path Jonathan Culler
Structuralism and Literature Applications Northrop Frye
Shakespeare's The Tempest Lore Metzger
"Silence and Slow Time": Pastoral Topoi in Keats's "Ode" Charles Swann, Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What?
Benito Cereno and the Politics of Narrative Structure Jean Kennard
Convention Coverage or How to Read Your Own Life
VI Poststructural Criticism: Language as Context Theory Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences Paul de Man
Semiology and Rhetoric Applications Stephen J. Miko
Tempest Barbara Jones Guetti, Resisting the Aesthetic Elizabeth Wright
The New Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism Richard Feldstein
Reader, Text, and Ambiguous Referentiality in "The Yellow WallPaper"
VII Historical Criticism II: Culture as Context
Theory
Terry Eagleton, Literature and History Catherine Belsey, Literature, History, Politics Stephen Greenblatt, Culture
Applications
Francis Barker and Peter Hulme, Nymphs and Reapers
Heavily Vanish: the Discursive Con-texts of The Tempest Marjorie Garson
Bodily Harm: Keats's Figures in the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Brook Thomas
The Legal Fictions of Herman Melville and Lemuel Shaw Julie Bates Dock
"But One Expects That": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and the Shifting Light of Scholarship
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