Literature and theory : contemporary signposts and critical surveys /
Literature and Theory is designed to introduce and help scholars and students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. Focusing on representative works and authors widely taught across classrooms in the world, Joyce, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Beckett, Eliot and Octavia Butler, it distils the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2022].
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| Summary: | Literature and Theory is designed to introduce and help scholars and students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. Focusing on representative works and authors widely taught across classrooms in the world, Joyce, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Beckett, Eliot and Octavia Butler, it distils the different aspects of understanding and studying literature in an accessible format. The volume also brings together essays that represent major modern literary schools of thought, including structuralism, poststructuralism, myth criticism, queer theory, feminism, postcolonialism and deconstruction. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary and critical theory and culture studies. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 202 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367471934 0367471930 9781032272146 1032272147 |