Author : Antony Easthope
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802038005
When first published in 1992, The Critical and Cultural Theory Reader served the growing need for essays and extracts for the study of culture. Now, the second and expanded edition of this highly successful reader reflects the growing diversity of the field and includes thirteen new essays.
Author : Antony Easthope
Publisher :
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : 9780335213566
This volume includes extracts from key readings in critical theory accompanied by introductions and extract summaries.
Author : Neil Badmington
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : 9780415433082
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Lucy Burke
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415186810
This is a core introduction to the most innovative and influential writings to have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity.
Author : Imre Szeman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118472306
This Companion addresses the contemporary transformation of critical and cultural theory, with special emphasis on the way debates in the field have changed in recent decades. Features original essays from an international team of cultural theorists which offer fresh and compelling perspectives and sketch out exciting new areas of theoretical inquiry Thoughtfully organized into two sections – lineages and problematics – that facilitate its use both by students new to the field and advanced scholars and researchers Explains key schools and movements clearly and succinctly, situating them in relation to broader developments in culture, society, and politics Tackles issues that have shaped and energized the field since the Second World War, with discussion of familiar and under-theorized topics related to living and laboring, being and knowing, and agency and belonging
Author : Robert Dale Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780199797776
A wide-ranging and refreshingly up-to-date anthology of primary readings, Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies presents a provocative mix of contemporary and classic essays in critical theory. From the foundational ideas of Marx and Freud to key writings by Fanon and Foucault, the essays in this collection represent the most influential ideas in modern critical thought and in the contemporary interpretation of literature and culture. This collection of seminal readings invites students to join in the ongoing debates and controversies of critical discussion, reading, writing, and interpretation.
Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350317764
This book is an invaluable reference guide for students of literary and cultural studies which introduces over forty of the complex terms, motifs and concepts in literary and cultural theory today. Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory - Gives students a brief introduction to each concept together with short quotations from the work of key thinkers and critics to stimulate discussion and guide genuine comprehension - Supplies helpful glosses and annotations for each term, concept or keyword which is discussed - Offers reflective, practical questions at the end of each entry to direct the student to consider a particular aspect of the quotations and the concept they address - Provides explanatory notes and bibliographies to aid further research This essential volume is ideal as both a dip-in reference book and a guide to literary theory for practical classroom use.
Author : John Storey
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780137761210
A reader on popular culture
Author : Peter Barry
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2002-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780719062681
In this second edition of Beginning Theory, the variety of approaches, theorists, and technical language is lucidly and expertly unraveled and explained, and allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles have been grasped. Expanded and updated from the original edition first published in 1995, Peter Barry has incorporated all of the recent developments in literary theory, adding two new chapters covering the emergent Eco-criticism and the re-emerging Narratology.
Author : Paul Wake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134123345
Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship including: Marxism Trauma Theory Ecocriticism Psychoanalysis Feminism Posthumanism Gender and Queer Theory Structuralism Narrative Postcolonialism Deconstruction Postmodernism With three new essays, an updated introduction, further reading and a wealth of new dictionary entries, this text is an indispensible guide for all students of the theoretically informed arts, humanities and social sciences.
