1. Getting started : the precritical response
2. First things first : textual scholarship, genres, and source study
3. Historical and biographical approaches
4. Moral and philosophical approaches
6. psychological approach : Freud
7. Mythological and archetypal approaches
8. Feminisms and gender studies
10. play of meaning(s) : reader-response criticism, dialogics, and structuralism and poststructuralism, including deconstruction
App. A. Andrew Marvell, "To his coy mistress"
App. B. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"
App. C. Alice Walker, "Everyday use : for your grandma"