The emperor redressed. Critiquing critical theory. Edited with an introduction by Dwight Eddins.

Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction, by Dwight Eddins; What Is a Humanistic Criticism? by M.H. Abrams; The End of the Poststructuralist Era, by Frederick Crews; The Current Polarization of Literary Studies, by Richard Levin; Time and the Intelligentsia: A Patchwork in Nine Parts, with Loopholes, by Gary Saul Morson; The Agony of Feminism: Why Feminist Theory Is Necessary After All, by Nina Baym; Confessions of a Reluctant Critic; or, The Resistance to literature, by Ihab Hassan; Deconstruction After the Fall, by David Lehman; The Poetic Fallacy, by Paisley Livingston; Literary Theory and Its Discontents, by John R. Searle; Panel Discussion; Contributors; Index.