""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Part I: Language, Ideology and the Literary Text""; ""Language and Literature in Our Time""; ""Semiotics: Some Basic Definitions and Considerations""; ""Syntactics""; ""Semantics""; ""Pragmatics""; ""Thematics""; ""Metaphor""; ""Some Other Figures""; ""Dictionaries, Denotation and Atomic Physics""; ""What is Literature?""; ""Metre, Rhythm and the Unified ""I""""; ""Line""; ""Rhyme""; ""Focat and Arrest""; ""The Phoric Process""; ""Markers""; ""Shifters""; ""Irony""; ""Metacharacter""; ""Narration""; ""Metacritique""; ""The Main Textual Code""
""Part II: Application of Elements of Prose Criticism""""Diegesis, Mimesis, Realism and Charles Dickens' Hard Times""; ""Ernest Hemingway's ""Hills Like White Elephants""""; ""Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher""""; ""Sinclair Ross' ""The Lamp at Noon""""; ""James Thurber's ""The Secret Life of Walter Mitty""""; ""Stephen Leacock's ""The Conjurer's Revenge""""; ""Harold Pinter's ""The Birthday Party""""; ""Charles Yale Harrison's Generals Die In Bed""; ""Working Through A Complete Text: ""Sylvie"", a Post-Modern Text by David Arnason""; ""Postscript""; ""Works Cited""
