Offers an introduction to the major theoretical schools in twentieth century literary theory on important authors and texts from Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie.

1. William Shakespeare's "Hamlet". (Critics): J. Lacan, T.S. Eliot, J. Rose, E. Showalter, C. Belsey 2. William Wordworths "Intimations of Immortality Ode". (Critics): C. Brooks, G. Hartmann, M. Levinson 3. George Eliot's "Middlemarch". (Critics): R. Williams, F. R. Leavis, T. Eagleton, C. MacCabe, J. Hillis Miller 4. Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". (Critics): V. Woolf, Marxist-Feminist Collective, S. Gilbert and S. Gubar, G. Spivak 5. Oscar Wilde. (Critics): Eve Sedgwick, J. Dollimore, T. Eagleton, J. Bristow 6. Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". (Critics): F. R. Leavis, T. Todorov, C. Achebe, E. Said 7. James Joyce's "Ulysses". (Critics): W. Iser, F. Jameson, J. Derrida, R. Williams 8. Berthold Brecht. (Critics): W. Benjamin, T. Adorno, L. Althusser, H. Marcuse 9. Toni Morrison's "Beloved". (Critics): P. Nicholls, P. Gilroy, M. Henderson, H. Bhabha 10. Salmon Rushdie. (Critics): P. Waugh, A. Ahmad, G. Spivak, T. Brennan.