書本目錄:
- Classical literary criticism
- The traditions of rhetoric
- Greek and Latin criticism during the Roman Empire
- The early middle ages
- The later middle ages
- The early modern period
- Neoclassical literary criticism
- The enlightenment
- The aesthetics of Kant and Hegel
- Romanticism
- Realism, naturalism, sybolism, and aestheticism
- The heterological thinkers
- From liberal humanism to formalism
- Socially conscious criticism of the earlier twentieth century
- Phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism
- The era of poststructuralism (I) : later Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction
- The era of poststructuralism (II) : postmodernism, modern feminism, gender studies
- The later twentieth century : new historicism, reader-response theory, postcolonial criticism, cultural studies.