Critical Terms for Literary Study

Introduction, Thomas McLaughlin I Literature as Writing 1 Representation, W. J. T. Mitchell 2 Structure, John Carlos Rowe 3 Writing, Barbara Johnson 4 Discourse, Paul A. Bove 5 Narrative, J. Hillis Miller 6 Figurative Language, Thomas McLaughlin 7 Performance, Henry Sayre 8 Author, Donald E. Pease II Interpretation 9 Interpretation, Steven Mailloux 10 Intention, Annabel Patterson 11 Unconscious, Franoise Meltzer 12 Determinacy/Indeterminacy, Gerald Graff 13 Value/Evaluation, Barbara Herrnstein Smith 14 Influence, Louis A. Renza 15 Rhetoric, Stanley Fish III Literature, Culture, Politics 16 Culture, Stephen Greenblatt 17 Canon, John Guillory 18 Literary History, Lee Patterson 19 Gender, Myra Jehlen 20 Race, Kwane Anthony Appiah 21 Ethnicity, Werner Sollors 22 Ideology, James H. Kavanagh In Place of an Afterword--Someone Reading, Frank Lentricchia References List of Contributors Index