With a new introduction and fully updated pointers to further reading, this second edition of Hans Bertens’ bestselling book is a must-have guide to the world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to post-modernism and new historicism it includes new coverage of: the latest developments in post-colonial and cultural theory literature and sexuality the latest schools of thought, including eco-criticism and post-humanism the future of literary theory and criticism. Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential purchase for anyone who wants to know what literary theory is and where it is going.

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Product Description: Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural politics--specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts--played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critical period after World War II...read more

Product Description: Diese Studie bietet die erste Gesamtdarstellung der Werke des Philosophen Gilles Deleuze und des Psychoanalytikers Félix Guattari in deutscher Sprache am Leitfaden von Literaturanalysen. Darüber hinaus wird mit dem Instrumentarium ihrer prozessualen Ästhetik der Grundbegriff der neueren Literaturwissenschaft - der Text - untersucht...read more

Product Description: Although Wolfgang Iser is one of the most influential literary theorists of the twentieth century, there is no authoritative study about his oeuvre. The present work remedies that problem by analysing Iser´s German and English writings in detail...read more

Product Description: Mikhail Bakhtin was one of the twentieth century’s most influential literary theorists. This accessible introduction to his thought begins with the questions ‘Why Bakhtin?’ and ‘Who was Bakhtin?’, before dealing in detail with his ideas on authorship and subjecthood, language, dialogism, heteroglossia and the novel, the chronotope, and the carnivalesque...read more

Product Description: A thoroughly revised edition of this successful undergraduate introduction to literary theory, this text includes core pieces by leading theorists from Russian Formalists to Postmodernist and Post-colonial critics. An ideal teaching resource, with helpful introductory notes to each chapter...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book makes available the broad canvas of Guattari's formidable theoretical and activist writings to provide an indispensable companion to the existing literature.

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