Includes bibliographies and index.

Tracing a beginning through past theory voices / Joseph Natoli -- Structuralism and critical history in the moment of Bakhtin / A.C. Goodson -- Tracing hermeneutics / Albert Divver -- History and postmodern literary theory / Daniel Stempel -- Sociocritical and Marxist literary theory / Eva Corredor -- The wellsprings of deconstruction / Irene Harvey -- Phenomenology and contemporary theory / Herman Rapaport -- Uncanny criticism in the United States / Richard A. Barney -- Influencing theory : speech acts / Barrie Ruth Straus -- Psychologies of reading / Temma F. Berg -- Feminist criticism and postmodernism / Carolyn J. Allen -- The semiotic study of literary works / Gregory Colomb.