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Introduction  1. Reading for meaning: practical criticism and New Criticism  2. Reading for Form I: Formulism and easy structuralism, 1914-60  3. Reading for form II: French Structuralism, 1950-75  4. Political Reading: the 1970s and 1980s  5. The Postructuralist revolution: Derrida, deconstruction, and postmodernism  6.Postructuralism continued: Foucault, Lacan, and French feminism  7. Literature and culture: the new historicism and cultural materialism  8. Postcolonial criticism and theory  9.Sexuality, Literature, and culture  10. Ecocriticism  11. New Directions  Conclusion