December 1974
(Volume 1, Number 2)

Table of Contents:

• James S. Ackerman: "Transactions in Architectural Design"
• Ralph W. Rader:"Fact, Theory, and Literary Explanation"
• John M. Wallace: "Examples are Best Precepts: Readers and Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Poetry"
• Philip Gossett: "Verdi, Ghislanzoni, and Aida: The Uses of Convention"
• Murray Krieger: "Fiction, History, and Empirical Reality"
• Barbara Currier Bell and Carol Ohmann: "Virginia Woolf's Criticism: A Polemic Preface"
• Gerald Mast: "What Isn't Cinema?"
• Francisco Ayala: "Ortega y Gasset, Literary Critic"
• Jose Ortega y Gasset: "Thoughts on Pio Baroja"
• CRITICAL RESPONSE:

  Denis Donoghue:"A Reply to Frank Kermode"

• REVIEW ARTICLE:

  David H. Richter: "Pandora's Box Revisited"