1. Theory, what theory? / Valentine Cunningham
2. Destroying literary studies / Rene Wellek
3. Traveling through American criticism / Tzvetan Todorov
4. rise and fall of "practical" criticism : from I. A. Richards to Barthes and Derrida / Morris Dickstein
5. power and limits of literary theory / Richard Freadman and Seumas Miller
6. Is theory to blame? / John M. Ellis
7. Theory, theories, and principles / Denis Donoghue
8. linguistic unconscious : Saussure and the post-Saussureans / Raymond Tallis
9. Literary theory and its discontents / John R. Searle
10. quandaries of the referent / Vincent Descombes
11. great dichotomy / Wendell V. Harris
12. deconstructive angel / M. H. Abrams
13. grand academy of theory / Frederick Crews
14. Theorrhea and kulturkritik / J. G. Merquior
15. Masters and demons / Brian Vickers
16. debate over the wartime writings of Paul de Man : the language of setting the record straight / Alan B. Spitzer
17. Presentism : postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism / Graham Good
18. Preface for a post-postcolonial criticism / Erin O'Connor
19. Author! author! : reconstructing Roland Barthes / Clara Claiborne Park
20. French intellectual habitus and literary culture / Niilo Kauppi
21. Social constructionism : philosophy for the academic workplace / Mark Bauerlein
22. Bad writing / D. G. Myers
23. Everyman an ubermensch : the culture of cultural studies / Stephen Adam Schwartz
24. end of theory, the rise of the profession : a rant in search of responses / Geoffrey Galt Harpham
25. cant of identity / Todd Gitlin
26. gender fallacy / William C. Dowling
27. Feminism's perverse effects / Elaine Marks
28. Queer theory, literature, and the sexualization of everything : the gay science / Lee Siegel
29. Battle of the Bien-Pensant / Kwame Anthony Appiah
30. Oppositional opposition / Harold Fromm
31. Silence is consent, or curse ye Meroz! / Richard Levin
32. Criticism as displacement / Jeffrey Wallen
33. Thick aestheticism and thin nativism / Russell Jacoby
34. Casualties of the culture wars / Eugene Goodheart
35. Rationality/science / Noam Chomsky
36. furor over Impostures Intellectuelles : what is all the fuss about? / Jean Bricmont and Alan Sokal
37. sleep of reason / Thomas Nagel
38. Staying for an answer : the untidy process of groping for truth / Susan Haack
39. What is social construction? / Paul A. Boghossian
40. Postcolonial science studies : ending "epistemic violence" / Meera Nanda
41. Literature and theory : notes on the research programs of the 1980s / David Bromwich
42. Changing epochs / Frank Kermode
43. Making knowledge : bioepistemology and the foundations of literary theory / Nancy Easterlin
44. Literature and fiction / Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen
45. Literary aesthetics and the aims of criticism / Paisley Livingston
46. Crisis in the humanities? : reconfiguring literary study for the twenty-first century / Marjorie Perloff
47. Hippocratic oath for the pluralist / Wayne C. Booth.
