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An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
4th EditionAndrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle
Paperback, May 2009ISBN13: 9781405859141
ISBN10: 1405859148
Starting at ‘the beginning’ and concluding with ‘the end’, the book covers topics that range from the familiar (character, narrative, the author) to the more unusual (secrets, plea...
Modern Criticism and Theory
3rd EditionDavid Lodge, Nigel Wood
Paperback, Mar 2008ISBN13: 9780582784543
ISBN10: 0582784549
This third edition of Modern Criticism and Theory represents a major expansion on its previous incarnations with some twenty five new pieces or essays included. This expansion has two princi...
A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory
5th EditionRaman Selden, Peter Widdowson, Peter Brooker
Paperback, Apr 2005ISBN13: 9780582894105
ISBN10: 0582894107
The best of the many guides to literary theory that are currently available. Widdowson and Brooker chart a clear and comprehensively documented path through the full range of what is best...
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
A ReaderDavid Lodge
Paperback, Jul 1972ISBN13: 9780582484221
ISBN10: 0582484227
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism is a major anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structuralist revolution. The critics collected...
Literary Criticism
An Introduction to Theory and Practice (A Second Printing)5th Edition
Charles Bressler
Paperback, Aug 2011ISBN13: 9780205212149
ISBN10: 020521214X
Presents the thirteen basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and criticism in their historical and philosophical contexts. Unlike other introductions to literary criticism, this text...
This major textbook for women's studies provides an excellent and wide-ranging introduction to feminist ideas and perspectives on issues such as the family, sexuality, work, education, patriarchy...
Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
Maud Ellmann
Paperback, Nov 1994ISBN13: 9780582083479
ISBN10: 0582083478
This collection of stimulating essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by...
Since Aristotle, genre has been one of the fundamental concepts of literary theory, and much of the world's literature and criticism has been shaped by ideas about the nature, function and value of...
