Contemporary trends/theory and approaches to literature -- Integrated approach -- The lost generation (Renato Rosales) -- Author's testimony -- Critical reading: Process illustrated -- Language in literature -- Language for understanding judgement of texts used -- Critical reading and thinking in the language -- Language as development and social construct -- Literary critic (sample of literary analysis): "Silas Marner" : A work of humanity and wide ranging sympathy (Renato de Guzman Rosales) -- "Eugenie Grandet" by Honore Balzac -- Prose writings in Juan Rulfo and Carlos Fuentes -- Mexico in its contemporary prose writings: A critic -- The Picaresque novel in Lazarillo de Tormes -- Characteristics of contemporary theory: Literary theory checklist -- Perspective for literary interpretation -- The writer's life and times: "The gift of the Magi" (O. Henry) -- The reader: "A rose for Emily" (William Faulkner) -- The work itself: "The black cat" (Edgar Allan Poe) -- Thinking about western thinking (Joan Didion) -- When living is a fate worse than death (Christine Mitchell) -- Language and linguistics as application to literature and literary analysis: Style as a choice: Difference between language and style and stylistic choice -- Literary criticism, literary theory and the "theory" itself -- Leftist criticism -- Stylistics and feminism: The case for stylistics and feminism and feminist stylistic -- Analysis of the women characters in NVM Gonzales and Nick Joaquin (literary analysis by Rosemary Robles) -- One hundred years of solitude -- The princess of Cleves (Marie de Lafayette) -- Classical Japanese women writer in Genji -- The new criticism and mini-critics: Types of new criticism -- The mini-critics -- Incomplete education -- BBB (burn, break and blow).