Beginning theory
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Beginning theory

An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Beginning theory

An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

About this book

Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics and the theories they represent, Beginning theory allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles and concepts have been grasped. The book has been updated for this edition and includes a new introduction, expanded chapters, and an overview of the subject ('Theory after "Theory"') which maps the arrival of new 'isms' since the second edition appeared in 2002 and the third edition in 2009.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Preface to the fourth edition
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Theory before ‘theory’
  10. 2 Structuralism
  11. 3 Post-structuralism and deconstruction
  12. 4 Postmodernism
  13. 5 Psychoanalytic criticism
  14. 6 Feminist criticism
  15. 7 Queer theory
  16. 8 Marxist criticism
  17. 9 New historicism and cultural materialism
  18. 10 Postcolonial criticism
  19. 11 Stylistics
  20. 12 Narratology
  21. 13 Ecocriticism
  22. 14 Literary theory – a history in ten events
  23. 15 Theory after ‘Theory’
  24. Appendices
  25. Where do we go from here? Further reading
  26. Index