Extremists, whether formalists of the New Criticism or of the humanist-moralist tradition, are taken to task in this attempt to combine elements of both in a more pluralistic approach to literary criticism. An analysis of a Frost poem, "Stopping by Woods", is attempted as an illustration of a kind of criticism that seeks to clarify the parts of…

Barthes'"S/Z: An Essay" offers ways of approaching critical problems not well dealt with in Anglo-American criticism.

In criticism, as in real life, we should take into account what the dramatic speaker is doing in the act of uttering a piece of discourse. (JH)

Scenes and plots wear out in three distinct stages: Innocence, Plausibility, and Decadence. Examines westerns, spy stories, nurse novels, detective stories, science fiction, pornography, avant-garde fiction, etc. (Author/RB)

Critical discussions of reader reaction are often only disguised discussions of author intention. (JH)

The focus story forms are differentiated by their characteristic uses of time and space and by the psychological processes they engage.

Classifying a work of literature means that it is similar to another work or works, and that these similarities may provide insight into it, or suggest new ways of asking or answering questions about it. (Author/MF)

Literature is being confronted by a long existing problem: the distortion of emphasis in a literary analysis which prefers to discuss refinement of style as the prime content of a work, not as the completion of a total effect. (Author/MF)

The theme of homosexual officers lusting after innocent enlisted men has frequently appeared in English and American fiction since "Billy Budd"--almost always leading to tragic outcomes. (JH)

Marxist approach to a discussion of Henry IV, Part One." Differing position presented by Richard M. Eastman (TE 202 171). (MB)

Liberal humanist approach to a discussion of Henry IV, Part One." Differing position presented by William B. Stone (TE 202 170). (MB)