编者的话

导言

上册

第一编　诗歌

W.B.Yeats:The Symbolism of Poetry

Ezra Pound:A Retrospect

T.S.Eliot:Tradition and the Individual Talent

Paul Valéry:Poetry and Abstract Thought:Dancing and Walking

Yvor Winters:Preliminary Problems

Northrop Frye:Literature as Context:Milton's Lycidas

Henry James:Preface to The Ambassadors

第二编 小说

Virginia Woolf:Modern Fiction

D.H.Lawrence:Morality and the Novel

Why the Novel Matters

Jean-Paul Sartre:Why Write?

Georg Luckács:The Ideology of Modernism

Wayne Booth:“Objectivity”in Fiction

第三编　戏剧

G.Wilson Knight:Macbeth and the Metaphysic of Evil

L.C.Knights:Restoration Comedy:The Reality and the Myth

Francis Fergusson:Oedipus Rex:The Tragic Rhythm of Action

Christopher Innes:Modernism in Drama

Raymond Williams:Modern Tragedy

Terry Eagleton:The Value of Agony

下册

批评方法概览

T.S.Eliot:The Function of Criticism

Edmund Wilson:Marxism and Literature

Roland Barthes:Criticism as Language

Susan Sontag:Against Interpretation

Sara Blair:Modernism and the Politics of Culture

Marianne Dekoven:Modernism and Gender

Astradur Eysteinsson:The Making of Modernist Paradigms

Julia Kristeva:From One Identity to an Other

Steven Connor:Rewriting Wrong:On the Ethics of Literary Reversion

Anne Balsamo:Feminism for the Incurably Informed

Ralph Cohen:Do Postmodern Genres Exist?

John Barth:The Literature of Exhaustion

Chinua Achebe:Colonialist Criticism

Kwame Anthony Appiah:The Postcolonial and the Postmodern

Partha Chatterjee:Nationalism as a Problem

David Lodge:Modernism,Antimodernism and Postmodernism