A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory
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A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

  1. 308 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

About this book

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory is a classic introduction to the complex yet crucial area of literary theory. This book is known for its clear, accessible style and its thorough, logical approach, guiding the reader through the essentials of literary theory. It includes two new chapters: 'New Materialisms' which incorporates ecocriticism, animal studies, posthumanism and thing theory; '21 st Century and Future Developments' which includes technology, digital humanities, ethics and affect.

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Yes, you can access A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory by Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson, Peter Brooker in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface to the Sixth Edition
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 New Criticism, moral formalism and F. R. Leavis
  9. 2 Russian Formalism and the Bakhtin School
  10. 3 Reader-oriented theories
  11. 4 Structuralism
  12. 5 Marxism
  13. 6 Psychoanalysis
  14. 7 Feminism
  15. 8 Poststructuralism, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
  16. 9 Postmodernism
  17. 10 Postcolonialism, race and ethnicity
  18. 11 Gay, lesbian and queer theories
  19. 12 Post-theory
  20. 13 Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, Thing Theory
  21. 14 World Literature and Digital Humanities
  22. Appendix
  23. Index