“This concise and lucid volume offers a satisfying survey of all the major theories, from structuralism in the 1960s to deconstruction today, that have made academic criticism both intriguing and...
An introduction to the aims and achievements of feminist literary theory, this reader provides a comprehensive array of extracts from both well-known and lesser-known sources. Drawing on the writing...
What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very...