Introduction / David Fuller and Patricia Waugh -- Revising the two cultures debate : science, literature, and value / Patricia Waugh -- Science, interpretation, and criticism / David E. Cooper -- Evidence-based and evidence-free generalizations : a tale of two cultures / Raymond Tallis -- Science and the self : Lacan's Doctrine of the signifier / Jacques Berthoud -- Poetry as literary criticism / Michael O'Neill -- Literary criticism and literary creation / David Lodge -- Writing autobiography / Doris Lessing -- Beneath interpretation : intention and the experience of literature / Paul H. Fry -- Poetry, music, and the sacred / David Fuller -- The aesthetic, the cognitive, and the ethical : criticism and discursive responsibility / Seߣ Burke -- Literature and the crisis in the concept of the university / Timothy Clark -- The metaphysics of modernism : aesthetic myth and the myth of the aesthetic / Michael Bell