Introduction: the state of criticism today, by M. Bradbury.
Criticism as a humanist discipline, by G. Hough.
Battering the object: the ontological approach, by W. K. Wimsatt.
Generic criticism: the approach through type, mode and kind, by A. Rodway.
The criticism of comparison: the approach through comparative literature and intellectual history, by J. Fletcher.
The "unconscious" of literature: the psychoanalytic approach, by N. Holland.
Contemporary cultural studies: an approach to the study of literature and society, by R. Hoggart.
The structure of criticism and the languages of poetry: an approach through language, by R. Fowler.
Criticism as an individual activity: the approach through reading, by I. Gregor.
