本书是由乔国强教授任主编，多位学者参与编写的一本西方文论教材。编辑这本教材的主要目的，是为高校本科生和研究生提供一本能够较为全面地了解和把握20世纪西方文论部分主要文献的读本。这部教材在编写体例上采用中英两种文字:评介部分用中文，由本书编者撰写;文献部分则选用英文原作并作注释。
采用这种编写体例主要是想为学生提供一些背景知识，帮助解决一些阅读中的困难，较好地理解所选文论的原文。
参加编写的具体情况为:上册由乔国强（诗歌部分）、王松林（小说部分）、何辉斌（戏剧部分）编写;下册各篇的具体编写情况为（以姓氏笔画为序）:
◎王松林（江西师范大学）: Steven Connor: Rewriting Wrong: On the Ethics of Literary Reversion; David Lodge: Modernism， Antimodernism and Postmodernism.
◎刘文（湖南师范大学）:Edmund Wilson: Marxism and Literature; Roland Barthes: Criticism as Language; Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation; Julia Kristeva: From One Identity to an Other.
◎乔国强（华中师范大学）:T.S.Eliot: The Function of Criticism.
◎何辉斌（浙江大学）:Ralph Cohen: Do Postmodern Genres Exist?
◎尚晓进（上海大学）:Sara Blair: Modernism and the Politics of Culture; Marianne Dekoven: Modernism and Gender; Astradur Eysteinsson: The Making of Modernist Paradigms; Anne Balsamo: Feminism for the Incurably Informed; John Barth: The Literature of Exhaustion; Chinua Achebe: Colonialist Criticism; Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Postcolonial and the Postmodern; Partha atterjee: Nationalism as a Problem.
需要特别说明的是，本教材编者所撰写的中文评介，虽为编者的研究心得，却也实为自负文责的一家之言，借此机会“抛砖引玉”，就教于方家。不妥处，还请批评指正。本教材的编写得到复旦大学出版社的鼓励和支持，责任编辑宋文涛先生给我们提出许多宝贵的建议，在此一并致谢。
编 者
作者简介
书摘
目 录
上 册
编者的话
导言
第一编 诗歌
W.B.Yeats: The Symbolism of Poetry
Ezra Pound: A Retrospect
T.S.Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent
Paul Valry: Poetry and Abstract Thought: Dancing and Walking
Yvor Winters: Preliminary Problems
Northrop Frye: Literature as Context: Milton s Lycidas
第二编 小说
Henry James: Preface to The Ambassadors
Virginia Woolf: Modern Fiction
D.H.Lawrence:Morality and the Novel
Why the Novel Matters
Jean-Paul Sartre:Why Write ?
Georg Luckacs: The Ideology of Modernism
Wayne Booth: “Objectivity” in Fiction
第三编 戏剧
G.Wilson Knight:Macbeth and the Metaphysic of Evil
L.C.Knights: Restoration Comedy: The Reality and the Myth
Francis Fergusson: Oedipus Rex: The Tragic Rhythm of Action
Christopher Innes: Modernism in Drama
Raymond Williams: Modern Tragedy
Terry Eagleton: The Value of Agony
下 册
批评方法概览
T.S.Eliot: The Function of Criticism
Edmund Wilson: Marxism and Literature
Roland Barthes: Criticism as Language
Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation
Sara Blair: Modernism and the Politics of Culture
Marianne Dekoven: Modernism and Gender
Astradur Eysteinsson: The Making of Modernist Paradigms
Julia Kristeva: From One Identity to an Other
Steven Connor: Rewriting Wrong: On the Ethics of Literary Reversion
Anne Balsamo: Feminism for the Incurably Informed
Ralph Cohen: Do Postmodern Genres Exist?
John Barth: The Literature of Exhaustion
Chinua Achebe: Colonialist Criticism
Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Postcolonial and the Postmodern
Partha Chatterjee: Nationalism as a Problem
David Lodge: Modernism， Antimodernism and Postmodernism
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