Theory of Criticism: A Tradition and Its System

• Theory of Criticism: A Tradition and Its System. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.
  Contents:
  Preface:ix-xiv.
  Part I. The Problem: The Limits and Capacities of Critical Theory: 1-64.
  

  1. The Vanity of Theory and Its Value:3-8.
     
  2. Preliminary Questions and Suggested Answers:9-37.
     
  3. The Critic as Person and Persona: 38-64.
     Part II. The Humanistic Theoretical Tradition: 65-175.
     
  4. The Deceptive Opposition Between Mimetic and Expressive Theories: 67-97.
     
  5. Form and the Humanistic Aesthetic: 98-148.
     
  6. Fiction, History, and Empirical Reality: The Hourglass and the Sands of Time: 149 175.
     Part III. A Systematic Extension: 177-245.
     
  7. The Aesthetic as the Anthropological: The Breath of the Word and the Weight of the World: 179-206.
     
  8. Poetics Reconstructed: The Presence of the Poem: 207-245.

• Paperback reprint. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1977.

• Translated into Romanian by Radu Surdulescu as Teoria Criticii: Traditie si sistem. Introduction by Radu Surdulescu. Bucharest: Univers, 1982.

• Translated into Serbo-Croatian by Svetozar M. Ignjacevic as Teorija Kritike. Introduction by Nikola Koljevic. Belgrade: Nolit, 1982.

• Translated into Spanish as Téoria de la Crítica. El sistema de una tradición. Literatura y Debate Crítico, 15. Madrid: Visor, 1992.