How to Do Theory

Preface.1. Introduction.Why Theory?.Hard Core and Soft Theory.Modes of Theory.Theory and Method.2. Phenomenological Theory: Ingarden.The Layered Structure of the Work.Method derived from Theory.An Example.3. Hermeneutical Theory: Gadamer..Understanding.Method derived from Theory.An Example.4. Gestalt Theory: Gombrich..Schema and Correction.An Example.5. Reception Theory: Iser..Reaction to a State of Criticism.Interface between Text/Context and Text/Reader.6. Semiotic Theory: Eco..The Iconic Sign.The Aesthetic Idiolect.An Example.7. Psychoanalytical Theory: Ehrenzweig. The Creative Process.An Example.An Afterthought-Spectacular Imaginig: Lacan.8. Marxist Theory: Williams..Reflectionist Theory.Production.Examples.9. Deconstruction: Miller..Deconstruction at Work.Deconstruction Exemplified.10. Anthropological Theory: Gans..Basics of Generative Anthropology.An Anthropological View of Literature.11. Dewey's Art as Experience.Aesthetic Experience.Circularity.An Example.12. Showalter's "Towards a Feminist Poetics".Women as Readers.Women as Writers.Revisions and Additions.13. Theory in Perspective.An Intellectual Landscape.The Fabric of Theory.What does the Multiplicity of Theories tell us?.14. Postscript-Postcolonial Discourse: Said.Basic Features of Discourse.Startegies of Postcolonial Discourse.The Novel as Imperial Discourse.Modes of Resistance.The Order of Postcolonial Discourse.Appendix A John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn.Appendix B Edmund Spenser "Februarie: Aegloga Secunda" from The Shepheardes Calender.Appendix C T.S. Eliot "The Fire Sermon" from The Waste Land.Index.