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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| New Criticism | |
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| How to Interpret: Key Concepts for New Critical Interpretation | |
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| Historicizing the New Criticism: Rethinking Literary Unity | |
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| The Intentional Fallacy and the Affective Fallacy | |
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| How to Interpret: A New Critical Example | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Structuralism | |
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| Key Concepts in Structuralism | |
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| How to Interpret: Structuralism in Cultural and Literary Studies | |
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| The Death of the Author | |
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| How to Interpret: The Detective Novel | |
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| Structuralism, Formalism, and Literary History | |
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| The Structuralist Study of Narrative: Narratology | |
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| Narrative Syntax, Metaphor, and Metonymy | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Deconstruction | |
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| Key Concepts in Deconstruction | |
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| How to Interpret: A Deconstructionist Example | |
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| Writing, Speech, and Differance | |
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| Deconstruction beyond Derrida | |
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| Deconstruction, Essentialism, and Identity | |
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| How to Interpret: More Deconstructive Examples | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Psychoanalysis | |
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| The Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Mind | |
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| Sigmund Freud | |
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| How to Interpret: Models of Psychoanalytic Interpretation | |
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| From the Interpretation of Dreams to the Interpretation of Literature | |
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| How to Interpret: Psychoanalytic Examples | |
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| Jacques Lacan | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Feminism | |
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| Early Feminist Criticism | |
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| Sex and Gender | |
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| Feminisms | |
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| How to Interpret: Feminist Examples | |
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| Feminism and Visual Pleasure | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Queer Studies | |
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| Key Concepts in Queer Studies | |
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| How to Interpret: A Queer Studies Example | |
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| Queer Studies and History | |
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| Outing: Writers, Characters, and the Literary Closet | |
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| Homosociality and Heterosexual Panic | |
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| How to Interpret: Another Queer Studies Example | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Marxism | |
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| Key Concepts in Marxism | |
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| Contemporary Marxism, Ideology, and Agency | |
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| How to Interpret: Marxist Examples | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Historicism and Cultural Studies | |
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| New Historicism | |
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| How to Interpret: Historicist Examples | |
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| Michel Foucault | |
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| Cultural Studies | |
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| How to Interpret: A Cultural Studies Example | |
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| Cultural Studies, Historicism, and Literature | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Postcolonial and Race Studies | |
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| Postcolonialism | |
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| From Orientalism to Deconstruction: Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | |
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| How to Interpret: A Postcolonial Studies Example | |
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| Race Studies: Postcolonial Theory and the Construction of Race | |
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| How to Interpret: Postcolonial and Race Studies Examples | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Reader Response | |
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| Ideal, Implied, and Actual Readers | |
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| Structuralist Models of Reading and Communication | |
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| Aesthetic Judgment, Interpretive Communities, and Resisting Readers | |
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| Reception Theory and Reception History | |
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| Readers and the New Technologies | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Photographic Credits | |
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| Index | |