Now includes fifty-nine extracts in total, more than any competing text. Brings together texts that cannot normally be found together in one volume by combining critical material with essays on writing by well-known authors such as Salman Rushdie and Toni Morrison. The book is introduced and arranged to encourage students to gain an understanding of where the current debates on literary theory come from. Brings together a wide variety of critical-theoretical fields and issues, including hermeneutics, new historicism, gender,post-colonial and feminist theory. New to this edition Completely updated to focus more on gender and identity and on recent debates such as 'Literature and Nation' and Literature and Value'. The relevance of the book has been extended, including more writers and critics from outside Europe. New general introduction and revised introductions to each section. More than 20 new extracts reflect the most current topics in the discipline.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-925301-2
- Editorial: Oxford University Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 552
- Fecha Publicación: 23/10/2003
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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