CONTENTS

Matthew Arnold

The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

Oscar Wilde

The Improvidence of Art

From The Decay of Lying

Henry James

The Art of Fiction

Virginia Woolf

Mr．Bennett and Mrs．Brown

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Tradition and the Individual Talent

Hamlet and His Problems

Ivor Armstrong Richards

From Principles of Literary Criticism

From Practical Criticism

Edmund Wilson

From Historical Criticism

Cleanth Brooks

Irony as a Principle of Structure

W．K．Wimsatt and Monroe C．Beardsley

The Intentional Fallacy

The Affective Fallacy

René Wellek

The Mode of Existence of a Literary

Work of Art

Northrop Frye

The Archetypes of Literature

Harry Levin

Literature as an Institution

E．D．Hirsch．Jr．

Objective Interpretation

Stanley E．Fish

Literature in the Reader：Affective Stylistics（abridged）

Jonathan Culler

Literary Competence

Terry Eagleton

Literary Theory：an Introduction

Appendix I：Selected References

The Main Trends of Twentieth-Century Criticism by RenéWellek

What Was New Criticism？by Gerald Graff

Literary Critioism in France（Ⅰ）by Martin Turnell

Literary Criticism in France（Ⅱ）by Martin Turnell

Freud and Literature by Lionel Trilling

Appendix Ⅱ：Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms