Contemporary literary theory: a Christian appraisal

Introduction / Clarence Walhout

Formalist and archetypal criticism / Leland Ryken

Moral criticism : promises and prospects / James Vanden Bosch

Marxist criticism / Clarence Walhout

Psychological criticism : from imagination to Freud and beyond / Alan Jacobs

Reader-response theories / Michael Vander Weele

Hermeneutics / Roger Lundin

Deconstruction / Alan Jacobs

Toward a Christian view of language / William J. Vande Kopple

Feminist literary criticism : a chorus of ethical voices / Susan Van Zanton Gallagher

The new historicism / John D. Cox

Critical theory / Mark Walhout

Afterword / Leland Ryken.