A handbook of critical approaches to literature

1. Getting Start: the precritical response 2. First things first: textual scholarship, genres and source study 3. Historical and Biographical Approaches 4. Moral and philosophical approaches 5. The formalist approach 6. The psychological approach: Freud 7. Mythological and archetypal approaches 8. Feminism and Gender Studies 9. Cultural Studies 10. The Play of meaning(s): Reader-Response criticism, dialogics, and structuralism and poststructuralism, including decontraction