本书内容包括文艺批评和文艺理论的界定，西方文艺理论与批评的历史简介，当代西方文化流派的详细阐述等。

Introduction
What Is Literary Theory
What Is Literary Criticism
Chapter 1 The History of Westem Literary Theory and Criticism
Classical Criticism
Neoclassical Criticism
Romantic Criticism
Modem Criticism

Chapter 2 RussianFormalism
Introduction
General Principles
Major Formalist Critics
Formalist Approach to Poetry and Prose
What Russian Formalists Do
Russian Formalism in Practice
A Question for Further Practice
Reading

Chapter 3 New Cnticism
Introduction
General Principles
Major New Critics
What New Critics Do
New Criticism in Practice
Questions for Further Practice
Reading

Chapter 4 Psychoanalytic Criticism
Introduction
Freudian Criticism
What Freudian Psychoanalytic Critics Do
Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism in Practice
Lacanian Criticism
What Lacanian Critics Do
Lacanian Criticism in Practice
Carl G Jung （1875-1961）
Questions for Further Practice
Reading

Chapter 5 Marxist Criticism
Fundamental Premises of Marxism
General Principles
Major Marxist Critics
What Marxist Critics Do
Marxist Criticism in Practice
Questions for Further Practice
Reading

Chapter 6 Reader-Response Criticism
General Introduction and Principles
Major Reader-Response Critics
Some Approaches of Reader-Response Criticism

Chapter 7 Structuralism
Chapter 8 Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
Chapter 9 New Historical and Cultural Criticism
Chapter 10 Feminist Criticism
Chapter 11 Queer Theory and Criticism
Chapter 12 Postcolonial Criticism
Selected References