The emperor redressed : critiquing critical theory / edited with an introduction by Dwight Eddins.

Papers and concluding panel discussion of the Eighteenth Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature held Oct. 8-10, 1992, at the University of Alabama.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is humanistic criticism? / M.H. Abrams -- The end of the poststructuralist era / Frederick Crews -- The current polarization of literary studies / Richard Levin -- Time and the intelligentsia : a patchwork in nine parts, with loopholes / Gary Saul Morson -- The agony of feminism : why feminist theory is necessary after all / Nina Baym -- Confessions of a reluctant critic, or, the resistance to literature / Ihab Hassan -- Deconstruction after the fall / David Lehman -- The poetic fallacy / Paisley Livingston -- Literary theory and its discontents / John R. Searle.