Literary Theory
A Beginner's Guide
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oneworld Publications
Published:1st May '10
Should be back in stock very soon
"For the first time in over ten years, we have a new introduction to literary theory that is profoundly reliable as well as inviting, playful and inventive." Sarah Wood - Director of MA in Critical Theory, School of English, University of Kent "Lucid, very readable and authoritative." Tim Clark - Professor in the Deparment of English Studies, Durham University
Focuses on the real questions that emerge when we read and study literature - such as how we find meaning and how literature relates to its historical context - before exploring the response of theorists. This title unites theory with practice, revealing how enjoyable it is to think about reading.
Rescuing the subject from deadly dry theorists and -isms, Clare Connors focuses on the real questions that emerge when we read and study literature - such as how we find meaning and how literature relates to its historical context - before exploring the response of theorists. Using selections from works including poetry by Christina Rossetti and Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain, Connors unites theory with practice, revealing how enjoyable it is to think about reading.
ISBN: 9781851687305
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm
Weight: 204g
227 pages