Chiefly papers from the University of Alabama's Ninth Annual Symposium on English and American Literature, 1982.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-189) and index.
The role of theory in the study of literature? / Gregory S. Jay and David L. Miller -- Tea and totality / Geoffrey H. Hartmen -- From the piazza to the enchanted isles : Melville's textual rovings / Edgar A. Dryden -- Hawthorne's genres / Peggy Kamuf -- Sexual politics and critical judgment / Elizabeth A. Meese -- Shakespeare and the exorcists / Stephen Greenblatt -- Auerbach's Mimesis / Timothy Bahti -- Between dialectics and deconstruction / Andrew Parker