Subject index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Textual and generic comparisons
7. 1. Canon formation: Ideology or aesthetic quality? 17
8. 2. Why Hugh Maccoll is not, and will never be, part of any literary canon 31
9. 3. Popular / canonical: The case of The Secret Agent 53
10. 4. Literary evaluation and poetic form: Poetic form and creative tension 71
11. 5. Poetic value: Political value 83
12. 6. "Too soon transplanted": Coleridge and the forms of dislocation 95
13. 7. Evaluation and stylistic analysis 117
14. 8. The value of Juvenal 139
15. Part II. Theoretical reflections
16. 9. Some correlates of literary eminence 159
17. 10. Macbeth through the computer: Literary evaluation and pedagogical implications 169
18. 11. How scientific can literary evaluation be? Arguments and experiments 191
19. 12. Philosophical perspectives on literary value 209
20. 13. The qualities of literatures 223
21. Author index 241
22. Subject index 243