Description: Foreword Frederick Crews Acknowledgments Introduction Nancy Easterlin and Barbara Riebling I. Poststructuralism and Interdisciplinarity: Questions of Models, Assumptions, and Definitions Richard Levin The New Interdisciplinarity in Literary Criticism Robert Storey "I Am I Because My Little Dog Knows Me": Prolegomenon to a Theory of Mimesis David F. Bell Simulacra, or, Vicissitudes of the Imprecise II. Poststructuralism and the Pragmatic Test: Theory in the World of Art and Criticism Paisley Livingston From Text to Work Nancy Easterlin Play, Mutation, and Reality Acceptance: Toward a Theory of Literary Experience William E. Cain The Crisis of the Literary Left: Notes toward a Renewal of Humanism Carol Siegel When No Means No and Yes Means Power: Locating Masochistic Pleasure in Film Narratives III. Revisionary Interdisciplinarity: A Selection of New Approaches Gary Saul Morson For the Time Being: Sideshadowing, Criticism, and Russian Countertradition Notes on Contributors David R. Anderson Razing the Framework: Reader-Response Criticism after Fish Barbara Riebling Remodeling Truth, Power, and Society: Implications of Chaos Theory, Nonequilibrium Dynamics, and System Science for the Study of Politics and Literature

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