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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction: Border Crossings, or Close Encounters of the Textual Kind | |
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| Structuralism | |
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| Introduction: Never Standing Still, or Is Roland Barthes Structuralism? | |
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| From Science to Literature | |
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| From S/Z | |
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| Feminism | |
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| Introduction: Will the Real Feminist Theory Please Stand Up? | |
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| Medusa's Voice: Male Hysteria in The Bostonians | |
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| Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Counterplot of Lesbian Fiction | |
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| Myself and M/others: Colette, Wilde and Duchamp | |
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| Marxist Literary Theories | |
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| Introduction: The Politics of Literature | |
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| From Towards a Revolutionary Criticism | |
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| Marxism and Literature | |
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| Reader-Response Theories | |
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| Introduction: There Is No Such Thing as Reader-Response Theory | |
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| Describing Poetic Structures: Two Approaches to Baudelaire's 'Les Chats' | |
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| The Poetic Text within the Change of Horizons of Reading: The Example of Baudelaire's 'Spleen II' | |
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| The Imaginary | |
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| Psychoanalytic Criticism | |
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| Introduction: Screening the Other | |
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| Difference | |
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| Using Lacan: Reading To the Lighthouse | |
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| Deconstruction | |
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| Introduction: What Remains Unread | |
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| Letter to a Japanese Friend | |
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| Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida and the 'Dislocation of Souls' | |
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| On Not Reading: Derrida and Beckett | |
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| Poststructuralism | |
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| Introduction: Criticism and Conceit | |
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| Semiology and Rhetoric | |
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| Scoring Literature | |
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| Postmodernism | |
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| Introduction: Postmodernism? Not Representing Postmodernism | |
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| Answer to the Question, What Is the Postmodern? | |
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| Simulacra and Simulations | |
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| Nostalgia for the Present | |
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| New Historicism | |
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| Introduction: History, Power and Politics in the Literary Artifact | |
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| Marxism and the New Historicism | |
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| 'Shaping Fantasies': Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture | |
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| Postcolonial Theory | |
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| Introduction: The Difficulty of Difference | |
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| Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse | |
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| Loafers and Story-Tellers | |
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| Film as Ethnography; or, Translation between Cultures in the Postcolonial World | |
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| Gay Studies/Queer Theory | |
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| Introduction: Works on the Wild(e) Side - Performing, Transgressing, Queering | |
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| Queer and Now | |
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| Post/modern: On the Gay Sensibility, or the Pervert's Revenge on Authenticity - Wilde, Genet, Orton, and Others | |
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| Critically Queer | |
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| Cultural Studies | |
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| Introduction: Theorising Culture, Reading Ourselves | |
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| Cultural Studies and Reading | |
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| Cities without Maps | |
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| Art as Cultural Production | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Index of Proper Names | |