Introducing literary theories : a guide and glossary. /

Wolfreys, Julian, ed.

Introducing literary theories : a guide and glossary. / Julian Wolfreys. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2001. - xii, 318 p. 24 cm.

Arkady Plotnitsky: Post modernism and postmodernity: literature, criticism, philosophy, culture. Gail Ching-Liang Low and Julian Wolfreys: Postcolonialism and the difficulty of difference Mark Currie: Criticism and creativity: postructuralist theories Moyra Haslett: The politics of literature: marxist literary theories Consists of essays on structuralism, feminism, Marxism, reader-response theory, deconstruction, posts structuralism, new historicism, post colonialism, gay studies and queer theory, and cultural theory, Bakhtinian criticism and cultural materialism. Each of the essays speaks to the complexities of specific analytic discourses, examining the interpretative strategies, the epistemological assumptions, and the tensions by which such reading praxes are informed. Contents (Selected): R.Brandon Kershner: Mikhail Bakhtin and Bakhtinian criticism

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