Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text

• Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text. Baltimore, MD & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
  Contents:
  

• Preface:ix-xii.
  I. Theory and Institutions: Critical Movements and Academic Structures:2-104.
  
  1. Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text: 3-19.
     
  2. The Arts and the Idea of Progress:20-42.
     
  3. From Theory to Thematics: The Ideological Underside of Recent Theory: 43-63.
     
  4. Literary Invention, Critical Fashion, and the Impulse to Theoretical Change; "Or Whether Revolution Be the Same":64-89.
     
  5. A Meditation on a Critical Theory Institute:90-104.
     II. Critical Positions: Self-definition and Other Definitions:105-203.
     
  6. An Apology for Poetics:107-119.
     
  7. A Colloquy on "An Apology for Poetics":120-152.
     
  8. The Literary Privilege of Evaluation:153-171.
     
  9. An E.H. Gombrich Retrospective: The Ambiguities of Representation and Illusion: 179-192.
     
  10. "Both Sides Now":193-203.
      III. Reconsideration of Special Texts for Special Reasons:206-288.
      
  11. Presentation and Representation in the Renaissance Lyric: The Net of Words and the Escape of the Gods:207-225.
      
  12. A Humanity in the Humanities: Literature among the Discourses:226-241.
      
  13. The Conversion from History to Utopia in Shakespeare's Sonnets:242-255.
      
  14. Orpheus mit Gluck: The Deceiving Gratific(a)tions of Presence:256-270.
      
  15. "A Waking Dream": The Symbolic Alternative to Allegory:271-288.

• 13 translated into German by Klaus Schirrmesiter as "Die Unwandlung von Geschichte in Utopie in Shakespeares Sonetten." Shakespeare-Jahrbuch (1987), 123:42-53.

• 4 reprinted in Ralph Cohen, ed., Studies in Historical Change, pp. 179-206. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992.