This comprehensive guide to literary theory and criticism includes 39 specially commissioned chapters by an international team of academics. Parts include...
This work introduces key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction for students developing their own critical and close...
What is literature? The author argues that, because of the impossiblity of definition, we can start afresh to explore its workings and rethink many aspects...
PublishedEdinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008
With a span that goes from the Ancient Greek period to the present day, this history of literary criticism will inform readers about the lives of notable...
The first volume to collect essays from the emergent field of cultural studies that specifically address the work of James Joyce, Cultural Studies of...
Modern developments in critical theory and the emergence of new media have put in question traditional ways of evaluating genres. This anthology charts...
This edition includes Toni Morrison's discussion of a Hemingway short story, Line Pouchard's reading of Radclyffe-Hall's Well of Loneliness, Marjorie...
John Archer re-examines the plays of William Shakespeare, paying close attention to London historiography and recent theories on citizen subjectivity...
Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, this book engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S. Pierce and Judith...
This is a reference guide for students of literary and cultural studies, grappling with the array of complex concepts that constitute literary and cultural...