Overview
- Provides detailed explanation of key terms and concepts in the context of quotes from a wide range of critics
Questions for further consideration, explanatory notes and bibliographies provide students with helpful leads into further work
Author wellknown for student guides to literary theory
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is an invaluable reference guide for students of literary and cultural studies which introduces over forty of the complex terms, motifs and concepts in literary and cultural theory today.
Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory
- gives students a brief introduction to each concept together with short quotations from the work of key thinkers and critics to stimulate discussion and guide genuine comprehension.
- supplies helpful glosses and annotations for each term, concept or keyword which is discussed
- offers reflective, practical questions at the end of each entry to direct the student to consider a particular aspect of the quotations and the concept they address
- provides explanatory notes and bibliographies to aid further research
This essential volume is ideal as both a dip-in reference book and a guide to literary theory for practical classroom use.
Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory
- gives students a brief introduction to each concept together with short quotations from the work of key thinkers and critics to stimulate discussion and guide genuine comprehension.
- supplies helpful glosses and annotations for each term, concept or keyword which is discussed
- offers reflective, practical questions at the end of each entry to direct the student to consider a particular aspect of the quotations and the concept they address
- provides explanatory notes and bibliographies to aid further research
This essential volume is ideal as both a dip-in reference book and a guide to literary theory for practical classroom use.
About the author
JULIAN WOLFREYS is Professor of Victorian Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Florida.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory
Authors: Julian Wolfreys
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-62940-0
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 295
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Literary Theory