The fourth edition of the bestselling Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice showcases various schools of 20th century criticism in historical and philosophical contexts. 

New features include:

·   A new chapter on queer theory.

·   Every chapter has been revised with new introductions with appropriate new critical vocabulary, critical terms, further readings sections, and web sites.

·   New student essays

·   Structuralism and Deconstruction have been combined into one section to make the material clearer and more streamlined.  

·   The addition of Plotinus, Giovanni Boccaccio, Joseph Addison, Percy Pysshe Shelley, and Mikhail Bakhtin.

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Foreword

To the Reader 

Chapter One

Chapter Six Psychoanalytic Criticism

Chapter Seven Feminism

Chapter Eight Marxism

Chapter Nine Cultural Poetics or New Historicism

Chapter Ten  Cultural Studies: Postcolonialism, African-American Criticism, and Queer Theory

Literary Selections

John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (1816) (Short poem)

Nathaniel Hawthorne “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (Short story)

Nathaniel Hawthorne “Young Goodman Brown” (Short story)

Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” (Short poem)

Edgar Allan Poe   “Ligeia” (Short poem)

Wilfred Owen “Dulce et Decorum Est” (1920) (Short poem)

Rudyard Kipling “At the End of the Passage”

Index