CONTENTS

Notes on contributors vii

Introduction 1
RAMAN SEI.DEN

1 Russian Formalism 11
PETER STEINER, University of Pennsylvania

STRUCTURALISM: ITS RISE, INFLUENCE AND AFTERMATH

2 Structuralism of the Prague School 33
LUBOMIR DOLEZEL, University of Toronto
3 The linguistic model and its applications 58
DEREK ATTRIDGE, Rutgers University
4 Semiotics 85
STEPHEN BANN, University of Kent
5 Narratology 110
GERALD PRINCE, University of Pennsylvania
6 Roland Barthes 131
ANNETTE LAVERS, University College London
7 Deconstruction 166
RICHARD RORTY, University of Virginia
8 Structuralist and poststructuralist psychoanalytic and 197
Marxist theories
CELIA BRITTON, University of Aberdeen

READER-ORIENTED THEORIES OF INTERPRETATION

9 Hermeneutics 255
ROBERT HOLUB, University of California, Berkeley
10 Phenomenology 289
ROBERT HOLUB
11 Reception theory: School of Constance 319
ROBERT HOLUB
12 Speech act theory and literary studies 347
PETER j . RABINOWITZ, Hamilton College
13 Other reader-oriented theories 375
PETER J. RABINOWITZ

Bibliography 404
Index 466