1. The General Nature of Criticism. What is Criticism?, Common Objections to Criticism, Criticism as Literature, The Abuse of Criticism, The Use of Criticism. 2. What is literary criticism? What are the basic guidelines?, Is there a correct view of what a text is about?, What are the main features of twentieth-century criticism?, What is critical theory? 3. The Two Functions of Criticism. The Critic as Interpreter, ‘Inductive’ Criticism, Older Methods of ‘Judicial’ Criticism, Illustrations: Addison, Johnson, Influence of the Modern Spirit on Criticism, The Need and Justification of Judicial Criticism. 4. The Study of Criticism as Literature. Personal Aspects, Some Qualifications of the True Critic, His Equipment, Points for Study in a Critic’s Work. 5. Historic Aspects. The Comparative Method in the Study of Criticism, The Historical Study of Criticism, Changes in Opinion about Representative Authors, How to be Explained?, The History of Criticism as a Supplement to the History of Literature, Criticism and Production. 6. Types of criticism Feminist criticism, F. R. Leavis and twentieth-century British criticism, Marxist criticism, New Criticism, Phenomenological criticism, Reader-response criticism, Russian Formalism, Structuralism and post-structuralism.