Synopses & Reviews
The third edition of this classic reader, like its successful predecessors, makes available in a single accessible volume examples of the writings of many key figures in the field together with seminal essays that have explored and extended the implications of critical theory. The new edition retains those essays and documents that can now be considered as part of the canon of modern literary theory and adds a wide selection of fresh material--New Historicist, Postmodernist, Postcolonialist, and retrospective accounts that reflect upon some of the critical issues now emerging in the retreat from earlier theoretical totalities.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-383) and index.
Table of Contents
' Part 1 - Introduction
Saussure
Russian Formalism
Structuralism
Marxism
Reader Theory
Feminism
Part 2 - Introduction
The subject
Language and Textuality
History and Discourse
Postmodernism and Postcolonialism
Looking back on the States of Theory
Bibliography
Index.
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