Five approaches of literary criticism: an arrangement of contemporary critical essays

[Moral approach : literature and moral ideas] Genius and taste / Irving Babbitt. Religion and literature / T.S. Eliot. New compassion in the American novel/ Edmund Fuller

[Psychological approach : literature in the light of psychological theory] Poetic process / Kenneth Burke. Myth in Jane Austin / Geoffrey Gorer. Image of the father / Simon O. Lesser

[Sociological approach : literature and social ideals] Tragic fallacy / Joseph Wood Krutch. George Bernard Shaw : a study of the bourgeois superman / Christopher Caudwell. Rudyard Kipling / George Orwell

[Formalistic approach : literature as aesthetic structure] As you like it / James Smith. 'Sailing to Byzantium' : prolegomena to a poetics of the lyric / Elder Olson. Keats's sylvan historian : history without footnotes / Cleanth Brooks

[Archetypal approach : literature in the light of myth] Hamlet and Orestes / Gilbert Murray. Turn of the screw as poem / Robert Heilman. Come back to the raft ag'in, Huck honey!/ Leslie Fiedler. Synthesis. A critic's job of work/ Richard Blackmur.