March 1975
(Volume 1, Number 3)

Table of Contents

• Jacques Barzun: "Biography and Criticism-- A Misalliance Disputed"
• Quentin Bell: "The Art Critic and the Art Historian"
• John G. Cawelti: "Myths of Violence in American Popular Culture"
• Frederick Crews: "Reductionism and its Discontents"
• E.D. Hirsch, Jr.: "Stylistics and Synonymity"
• John Holloway: "Narrative Structure and Text Structure: Isherwood's 'A Meeting by the River,' and Muriel Spark's 'The Prime of Miss Jane Brody'"
• Martin Price: "People of the Book: Character in Forster's 'A Passage to India'"
• Edward Wasiolek: "Wanted: A New Contextualism"

ARTISTS ON CRITICISM OF THEIR ART

• "Ionesco and the Critics" Eugene Ionesco Interviewed by Gabriel Jacobs

REVIEW ARTICLE

• A. Walton Litz: "Recollecting Jane Austen"

CRITICAL RESPONSE

• I. Gunther S. Stent: "On Art and Science: A Reply to Leonard B. Meyer"
• II. Frank Kermode: "A Reply to Denis Donoghue"