Exposing the debilitating effects of much "ideology critique"--whichseeks to reveal the effects of power, privilege, and interest underlyingcritical approaches to works of art--whether practiced by feminists,neo-Marxists, Foucauldians, new Historicists, or post-colonialists, Goodheartargues for a new kind of criticism that will reintroduce the pleasures ofliterature.