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Literary Theory and Criticism

An Oxford Guide

Patricia Waugh editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:26th Jan '06

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Edited by Patricia Waugh, this comprehensive guide to literary theory and criticism includes 39 specially commissioned chapters by an outstanding international team of academics. The volume is divided into four parts. Part One covers the key philosophical and aesthetic origins of literary theory, Part Two looks at the foundational movements and thinkers in the first half of the twentieth century, Part Three offers introductory overviews of the most important movements and thinkers in modern literary theory and Part Four looks at emergent trends and future directions.

The quality of essays is consistently high, with outstanding contributions by Timothy Clark on hermeneutics, Chris Baldick on criticism and the academy, Chris Snipp-Walmsley on post-modernism, and Sean Burke on the responsibilities of the writer. * THES *

ISBN: 9780199258369

Dimensions: 246mm x 189mm x 34mm

Weight: 1170g

620 pages