Contexts for Criticism by Donald Keesey, Donald Keesey (Compiler), Donald Keesey

I. HISTORICAL CRITICISM I: Author as ContextTHEORY E.D. Hirsch, Jr. Objective Interpretation George Watson, Are Poems Historical Acts? APPLICATIONS Paul Yachnin, Shakespeare and the Idea of Obedience: Gonzalo in The Tempest Allen C. Austin, Toward Resolving Keats's Grecian Urn Ode Sidney Kaplan, Herman Melville and the American National Sin: The Meaning of Benito Cereno Denise D. Knight, The Yellow Wall-Paper II. FORMAL CRITICISM: Poem as Context THEORY Cleanth Brooks, Irony as a Principle of Structure John Ellis, The Relevant Context of a Literary Text APPLICATIONS Russ McDonald, Reading The Tempest David A. Kent, On the Third Stanza of Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Bruce A. Bickley, The Method of Melville's Short Fiction: "Benito Cereno" Conrad Shumaker, "Too Terribly Good To Be Printed": Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" III. READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM: Audience as Context THEORY Wolfgang Iser, Readers and the Concept of the Implied Reader (and more...)