Literary Theory

Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the ...

Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one...

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First published in 1986 with a second edition in 1996, Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader constitutes one of the classic texts of second-into-third...

Revision of: A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory / Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson, Peter Brooker. 5th edition.

Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory introduces the key concepts, figures and movements of both psychoanalytic theory and the history of literary cri...

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This volume covers a variety of authors and topics related to the New Criticism school of the 1920s-1950s in America. Contributors trace the histor...

Terry Eagleton's witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are rega...

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A comprehensive case for a fresh literary approach to the New Testament

Provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. An intr...

This book examines the strengths and limitations of the two main strands in feminist criticism, the Anglo-American and the French, paying particula...

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"Examines the philosophic-historical conditions of literary theory"--

First published in 1983, Literary Theory: An Introduction is probably the best-selling work of literary criticism in the world today. It propelled ...

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Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction to the key thinkers and theories integral ...

The reissue of this work as a Routledge Classic brings some radical ideas to a new audience, and argues persuasively for a totally new way of readi...

Excerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval England offer a guide to medieval literary theory.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Pelagia (University of Oxford, UK) GoulimariNumber of pages: 378Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 232 x 1...

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Niklas Luhmann ranks as one of the most important sociologists and social theorists of the twentieth century. Through his many books he developed a...

Theory of Dislocations provides unparalleled coverage of the fundamentals of dislocation theory, with applications to specific metal and ionic crys...

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Written in 1759 by Scottish philosopher and political economist Adam Smith, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" provides much of the foundation for th...

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This concise classic by Paul R. Halmos, a well-known master of mathematical exposition, has served as a basic introduction to aspects of ergodic th...

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John Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to ...

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Reprint of the first edition. This classic work by the important Austrian jurist is the fullest exposition of his enormously influential pure theor...

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Crystallizing the essential principles of social reproductive theory, this anthology provides long-overdue analysis of everyday life under capitali...

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The meta-theoretical approach according to which a popular method of analysis and interpretation regarding the books of Samuel is discussed an eval...

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Boltzmann's equation (or Boltzmann-like equations) appears extensively in such disparate fields as laser scattering, solid-state physics, nuclear t...

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