Table of Contents

(contents arranged according to the critical method or approach exhibited or discussed)

Foreword

I. Formal criticism - structural and rhetorical analysis - 'New criticism' - literary techniques and conventions
II. Literary History - history of ideas
III. Criticism of literature in its social and political contexts - Marxist criticism - cultural history and analysis
IV. Myth criticism - archetypes and the collective unconscious
V. Psycho-analytical approaches
VI. Prescriptive criticism - credos and manifesoes

Contents are arranged:
1. in chronological order of the first publication
2. according to the literary form or topic principally discussed
3. according to the critical method or approach exhibited or discussed

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About the Author

David Lodge is an English author and literary critic, previously Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham until 1987.