Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction: Language in Use, or the Semantics of Presence 1
5. 1. Authors and Books: The Return of the Dead from the Graveyard of Theory 18
6. 2. The Inevitability of Professing Literature 40
7. 3. Professionalism, Relativism, and Rationality 51
8. 4. Ideology, Textual Practice, and Bakhtin 72
9. 5. Criticism: The More It Changes, the More It Is the Same Thing 93
10. 6. Philosophical Pluralism, Elder Olson, and Postanalytic Philosophy 111
11. 7. Genre: A Matter of Form, a Form of Matter 127
12. 8. Teaching Critical Principles in Introductory Literature Courses 149
13. Notes 163
14. Bibliography 181
15. Index 193