Literary Terms and Criticism (How to Study Literature) - Softcover

Peck, John

 
9780333588871: Literary Terms and Criticism (How to Study Literature)

Synopsis

This edition has been expanded to make it more relevant to the needs of today's students, offering a comprehensive guide to English poetry, drama and the novel. It also includes expanded essays on post-colonial literature and 20th-century literature and a wide variety of new entries, for example - on women's poetry, discourse, contradiction, the subject and the text. In addition, there is an extensive and revised guide to modern critical theory. John Peck and Martin Coyle are the series editors both of the "How to Study Literature" series and the "New Casebooks" series.

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Contents: General Editor's Preface - How to Use this Guide - English, American and Post-colonial Literature: A Brief Survey - Poetry - Drama - The Novel - Critical Concepts - Critical Positions and Perspectives - Further Reading - Author Index - Subject Index

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Literary Terms and Criticism has long been established as the best-selling guide to the study of English literature. It offers a comprehensive introduction to English poetry, drama and the novel, complete with practical advice and tips on how to analyse texts and how to make sense of the critical terms we employ in discussing literature. It is also the clearest and most useful of all guides to modern critical theory. There are entries on all aspects of critical thinking, ranging from traditional criticism through to postcolonialism and cultural materialism. This new edition also contains updated material, a revised further reading list and additional discussion of critical terms and approaches. In so doing, it remains the indispensable guide - providing you with the vital starting-point for whatever text you are studying, and giving you ideas you can draw on throughout your course.

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ISBN 10:  0333962583 ISBN 13:  9780333962589
Publisher: Palgrave, 2002
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