Includes bibliographical references.

Macksey, R. Velocities of change.--The fiction of criticism: Gossman, L. Literary education and democracy. Said, E. W. Notes on the characterization of a literary text. Alonso, A. The stylistic interpretation of literary texts. Barthes, R. The two criticisms. Girard R. Critical reflections on literary studies. Goldmann, L. Genetic structuralism and the history of literature. Hartman, G. Beyond formalism. Raimondi, E. Symbolic criticism. Miller, J. H. The antitheses of criticism. Donato, E. Of structuralism and literature. Kermode, F. The structures of fiction.--Critical profiles: De Man, P. George Lukacs's Theory of the novel. Spitzer, L. Hugo Friedrich and the modern lyric. Fleischmann, W. B. Erich Auerbach's critical theory and practice: an assessment. Gelley, A. Ernst Robert Curtius: topology and critical method. Ehrmann, J. Introduction to Gaston Bachelard. Hahn, O. Sartre's criticism. Hart, T. R. The literacy criticism of Jorge Luis Borges. Donato, E. Merleau-Ponty: language, vision, and phenomenology. Macksey, R. The consciousness of the critic: George Poulet and the reader's share. Bass, A. "Literature"/literature.--Other critical essays from MLN.--Contemporary criticism: selected readings: (p. 356-359)