1.导读
2.Plato's Ion
3.Aristotle's Poetics
4.Samuel Johnson's Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare
5.William Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (2nd Edition)
6.Hippolyte Taine's Preface to History of English Literature
7.Oscar Wilde's Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
8.Sigmund Freud's Development of the Libido and Sexual Organization
9.Virginia Woolf's Modern Fiction
10.T.S.Eliot's Tradition and the Individual Talent
11.Mikhail Bakhtin's Epic and Novel
12.William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity
13.M.H.Abrams' The Mirror and the Lamp
14.H.R.Jauss' Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory
15.Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation
16.Edward Said's Orientalism
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