Introducing literary theories

Аннотация

Introducing Literary Theories: A Guide and Glossary has developed in part from a previous publication, Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide (1999). For the most part, the essays in the current volume, including the introduction, are revisions, in some cases involving extensive reworking, of the introductions to each area of theoretical discourse which were commissioned for the earlier book. Broadly defined, these areas of discussion are structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, deconstruction, poststructuralism, new historicism, postcolonialism, gay studies and queer theory, and cultural studies.