Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory
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Paul Wake is a lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University where he specialises in narrative and literary theory.
Simon Malpas is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University. His research interests include research interests include aesthetics, continental philosophy, literary theory and postmodernism, and he is the author of The Postmodern (Routledge, 2006).
Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship including:
- Marxism
- Trauma Theory
- Ecocriticism
- Psychoanalysis
- Feminism
- Posthumanism
- Gender and Queer Theory
- Structuralism
- Narrative
- Postcolonialism
- Deconstruction
- Postmodernism
With three new essays, an updated introduction, further reading and a wealth of new dictionary entries, this text is an indispensible guide for all students of the theoretically informed arts, humanities and social sciences.
Editor’s Introduction, Introduction to the second Edition Part I: Critical Theory: Introductory Essays 1. Structuralism and Semiotics 2. Narrative and Narratology 3. Marxism 4. Poststructuralism 5. Historicism 6. Psychoanalytic Criticism 7. Deconstruction 8. Feminism 9. Gender and Queer Theory 10. Postmodernism 11. Race and Postcoloniality 12. Posthumanism 13. Trauma Theory 14. Green Theory/Ecocriticism Part II: Names and Terms Part III: History and Context
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Paul Wake is a lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University where he specialises in narrative and literary theory.
Simon Malpas is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University. His research interests include research interests include aesthetics, continental philosophy, literary theory and postmodernism, and he is the author of The Postmodern (Routledge, 2006).