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  • A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

    by Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson, Peter Brooker ...
    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 ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles

    Thomas Hardy

    Edited by Peter Widdowson ...
    Series series New Casebooks
    Thomas Hardy has long been critically constructed as 'poet of Wessex' and 'novelist of Character and Environment'. This volume offers to deconstruct such a mythic 'Hardy' in selecting contemporary critical essays which re-present Tess from very different critical perspectives. Feminist, cultural-materialist and poststructuralist approaches in particular explore gender, class and language by way of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Re-Reading English

    by Peter Widdowson ...
    First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. ‘New ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory

    by Peter Brooker, Peter Widdowson ...
    This introduction to practicing literary theory is a reader consisting of extracts from critical analyses, largely by 20th century Anglo-American literary critics, set around major literary texts that undergraduate students are known to be familiar with. It is specifically targeted to present literary criticism through practical examples of essays by literary theorists themselves, on texts both ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Literature

    by Peter Widdowson ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature:* offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest origins* illustrates the kinds of theoretical issues which are currently invoked by the term ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Popular Fictions

    by Peter Humm, Paul Stigant, Peter Widdowson ...
    First Published in 2002. Amongst a time of rapid and radical social change, New Accents is a positive response to change, with each volume seeking to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. All the essays collected here deal in their different ways with 'popular fictions', but they were ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Beginning theory

    An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

    by Peter Barry, John McLeod ...
    Series series Beginnings
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Event of Literature

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Critical Practice

    by Catherine Belsey ...
    Series series New Accents
    What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of interpretation? And what is the role of the text? Catherine Belsey considers these and other questions ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms

    Edited by Peter Childs, Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Dictionaries
    A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels.With over forty newly commissioned entries, this essential reference book includes:an exhaustive range of entries, covering ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Genders

    by David Glover, Cora Kaplan ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism

    Edited by Martin Coyle, Peter Garside, Malcolm Kelsall, John Peck ...
    Series series Routledge Companion Encyclopedias
    This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas are ... Read more

    $70.99 USD