Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text (Paperback)

Preface
Part I. Theory and Institutions: Critical Movements and Academic Structures
Chapter 1. Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text
Chapter 2. The Arts and the Idea of Progress
Chapter 3. From Theory to Thematics: The Ideological Underside of Recent Theory
Chapter 4. Literary Invention, Critical Fashion, and the Impulse to Theoretical Change: "Or Whether Revolution Be the Same"
Chapter 5. A Meditation on a Critical Theory Institute
Part II. Critical Positions: Self-definition and Other Definitions
Chapter 6. An Apology for Poetics
Chapter 7. A Colloquy on "An Apology for Poetics"
Chapter 8. The Literary Privilege of Evaluation
Chapter 9. An E.H. Gombrich Retrospective: The Ambiguities of Representation and Illusion
Chapter 10. "Both Sides Now"
Part III. Reconsideration of Special Texts jar Special Reasons
Chapter 11. Presentation and Repres entation in the Renaissance Lyric: The Net of Words and the Escape of the Gods
Chapter 12. A Humanity in the Humanities: Literature among the Discourses
Chapter 13. The Conversion from History to Utopia in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Chapter 14. Orpheus mit Gluck: The Deceiving Gratific(a)tions of Presence
Chapter 15. "A Waking Dream": The Symbolic
Alternative to Allegory
Index