A Collection of Essays on
Theory and Practice
Prentice-Hall
Contents
PREFACE, v
CRITICISM AND ITS FUNCTION
1. The Function of Criticism at the Present Time and All Others, 1 Stephen Booth
2. Half Someone Else's: Theories, Stories, and the Conversation of Literature, 9 Jo Keroes
3. The Institutional Rhetoric of Literary Criticism, 22 Steven Mailloux
4. A Passage into Critical Theory, 49 Steven Lynn
5. Is There a Fish in This Text?, 64 Robert Scholes
THEORY AND THE CLASSROOM
6. Reflections on the Freshman English Course, 77 Richard Marius
7. A Teachable Theory of Interpretation, 93 William R. Schroeder
8. Literary Texts in the Classroom: A Discourse, 121 Claire Kramsch
9. Literary Theory and Literature Teachers: New Life for Introductory Courses, 137 Carole L. Edmonds and Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.
10. Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: Some Thoughts on the Current State of English Studies, 145 Martin Mueller
11. The Use of the Word Mistake in the Teaching of Poetry, 1 H. R. Swardson
LITERATURE AND WRITING
12. On the Possibility of a Unified Theory of Composition and Literature, 176 Patricia Bizzell
13. Literary Theory and the Reading Process: A Meeting of Perspectives, 182W. John Harker
14. Post-Structural Literary Criticism and the Response to Student Writing, 196 Edward M. White
NEW CRITICISM TODAY
15. Validity in Interpretation, 206 E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
LITERATURE, READING, AND RESPONSE
16. Reader-Response and the Pathos Principle, 224 Nan Johnson
17. Theory in the Reader: Bleich, Holland, and Beyond, 238 Kathleen McCormick
18. The Reader in History: The Changing Shape of Literary Response, 254 Jane P. Tompkins
FEMINISM AND DECONSTRUCTION
19. From the Inside Out: On First Teaching Women's Literature and Feminist Criticism, 284 Deanne Bogdan
20. Deconstructing Writing Pedagogy, 298 Sharon Crowley
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, 315