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An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
by Bennett, Andrew; Royle, NicholasEdition:
4th
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9781405859141
ISBN10:
1405859148
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Pub. Date:
7/10/2009
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Longman
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Fresh, original and compelling,An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theoryis the essential guide to literary studies. The market-leading introduction to literature, criticism and theory, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to studying literature, and introduces theory in a non-threatening way Fully updated to take into account new theory - such as eco-criticism This new edition is supported by a companion website, which will contain additional, downloadable chapters on How to Read and How to Write
Author Biography
Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has also authored Ignorance: Literature and Agnology (MUP) and Wordsworth Writing (CUP). Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of The Uncanny (MUP) and Jacques Derrida in the Routledge Critical Thinkers Series.
Table of Contents
| The beginning | |
| Readers and reading | |
| The author | |
| The text and the world | |
| The uncanny | |
| Monuments | |
| Narrative | |
| Character | |
| Voice | |
| Figures and tropes | |
| Creative writing | |
| Laughter | |
| The tragic | |
| History | |
| Me | |
| Eco | |
| Animals | |
| Ghosts | |
| Moving pictures | |
| Sexual difference | |
| God | |
| Ideology | |
| Desire | |
| Queer | |
| Suspense | |
| Racial difference | |
| The colony | |
| Mutant | |
| The performative | |
| Secrets | |
| The postmodern | |
| Pleasure | |
| War | |
| The end | |
| Glossary | |
| Select bibliography of other introductory texts and reference works | |
| Literary works discussed | |
| Bibliography of critical and theoretical works | |
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