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　　The novels which are most fruitful for the psychologist are those in which the author has not already given a psychological interpretation of his characters， and which therefore leave room for analysis and explanation， or even invite it by their mode of presentation. Good examples of this kind of writing are the novels of Benoit， and English fiction in the manner of Rider Haggard， including the vein exploited by Conan Doyle which yields that most cherished article of mass-production， the detective story. Melville's Moby Dick， which I consider the greatest American novel， also comes with in this class of writings. An exciting narrative that is apparently quite devoid of psychological exposition is just what interests the psychologist most of all. Such a tale is built upon a ground work of implicit psychological assumptions， and， in the measure that the author is unconscious of them， they reveal themselves， pure and unalloyed， to the critical discernment. In the psychological novel， on the other hand， the author himself attempts to reshape his material so as to raise it from the level of crude contingency to that of psychological exposition and illumination-a procedure which all too often clouds the psychological significance of the work or hides it from view. It is precisely to novels of this sort that the layman goes for "psychology"; while it is novels of the other kind that challenge the psychologist，for he alone can give them deeper meaning.　　I have been speaking in terms of the novel， but I am dealing with a psychological fact which is not restricted to this particular form of literary art. We meet with it in the works of the poets as well， and are confronted with it when we compare the first and second parts of the Faust drama， The love-tragedy of Gretchen explains itself; there is nothing that the psychologist can add to it that the poet has not already said in better words， The second part， on the other hand，calls for explanation. The prodigious richness of the imaginative material has so overtaxed the poet's formative powers that nothing is self-explanatory and every verse adds to the reader's need of an interpretation. The two parts of Faust illustrate by way of extremes this psychological distinction between works of literature.　　……

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IntroductionWhat Is Literary TheoryWhat Is Literary CriticismChapter 1 The History of Westem Literary Theory and CriticismClassical CriticismNeoclassical CriticismRomantic CriticismModem CriticismChapter 2 RussianFormalismIntroductionGeneral PrinciplesMajor Formalist CriticsFormalist Approach to Poetry and ProseWhat Russian Formalists DoRussian Formalism in PracticeA Question for Further PracticeReadingChapter 3 New CnticismIntroductionGeneral PrinciplesMajor New CriticsWhat New Critics DoNew Criticism in PracticeQuestions for Further PracticeReadingChapter 4 Psychoanalytic CriticismIntroductionFreudian CriticismWhat Freudian Psychoanalytic Critics DoFreudian Psychoanalytic Criticism in PracticeLacanian CriticismWhat Lacanian Critics DoLacanian Criticism in PracticeCarl G Jung （1875-1961）Questions for Further PracticeReadingChapter 5 Marxist CriticismFundamental Premises of MarxismGeneral PrinciplesMajor Marxist CriticsWhat Marxist Critics DoMarxist Criticism in PracticeQuestions for Further PracticeReadingChapter 6 Reader-Response CriticismGeneral Introduction and PrinciplesMajor Reader-Response CriticsSome Approaches of Reader-Response Criticism……Chapter 7 StructuralismChapter 8 Poststructuralism and DeconstructionChapter 9 New Historical and Cultural CriticismChapter 10 Feminist CriticismChapter 11 Queer Theory and CriticismChapter 12 Postcolonial CriticismSelected References

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《当代西方文论(第2版)(英文)》内容包括文艺批评和文艺理论的界定，西方文艺理论与批评的历史简介，当代西方文化流派的详细阐述等。

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