Raman Selden

Unsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature.

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

Peter Brooker

Peter Widdowson

The fourth edition of this reader's guide remains true to the ideals of previous editions, providing a concise guide to contemporary literary theories. The book covers a vast range of differing forms of English literature.

Aborda las más influyentes y controvertidas áreas de debate de la teoría literaria: aquellas que habiendo nacido y tenido su desarrollado en Europa, han supuesto un impacto fundamental en el mundo académico anglosajón dentro del campo de los estudios literarios, cuyo curso han logrado reorientar. El estructuralismo, postestructuralismo, Formalismo ruso, la semiótica, narratologia, hermenéutica, fenomenología, la teoría de la recepción y la teoría de los actos de habla, movimientos asociados con autores europeos como Barthes, Todorov, Derrida e Iser, se presentan en el presente texto en el contexto de su desarrollo original, pero siempre con la mirada puesta en las consecuencias de sus poderosas influencias. Historia de la Critica Literaria incluye un reflexivo capítulo de Richard Rorty sobre la Deconstrucción y finaliza dando cuenta del estado de la crítica literaria orientada al lector. Éste es el primer libro que logra entablar un debate sistemático con la historia de alguno de los más profundos y culturalmente importantes movimientos intelectuales del siglo XX.

Del formalismo al postestructuralismo

Historia de la crítica literaria del siglo XX

The fifth edition of this reader's guide remains true to the ideals of previous editions, providing a concise guide to contemporary literary theories. The book covers a vast range of differing forms of English literature.

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 theory; ‘21st Century and Future Developments’ which includes technology, digital humanities, ethics and affect.

This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology. Each part contains several thematic sections in which extracts from different writers and periods are juxtaposed. The study of literary theory has tended to concentrate on very recent developments. This volume, however, establishes both a sense of the continuities from Plato to the present day as well as the discontinuities. These are presented through comparisons and contrasts across the entire field of critical history.

From Plato to the Present: A Reader

The Theory of Criticism

Claude Rawson

George Alexander Kennedy

H. B. Nisbet

This comprehensive 1997 account of eighteenth-century literary criticism is now available in paperback.

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century

Louis Menand

A. Walton Litz

Glyn P. Norton

Christa Knellwolf

Lawrence S. Rainey

Christopher Norris

Marshall Brown

Alastair J. Minnis

Claude Julien Rawson

Maynard Mack Professor of English Claude Rawson

Jessica Osborn

Hugh Barr Nisbet

Ian Richard Johnson

Rafey Habib

Christa Knellwolf King

This 1999 volume is the standard work of reference on early modern literary criticism in Europe.

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