Reader's Guide Contp.Lit Theory-Pa - Softcover

Selden, Raman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813108160 ISBN 13: 9780813108162

Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993

Synopsis

Unsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature.

About this title

Review:

"A very clear, sustained, impartial guide." -- Choice

"A good starting point for students who want to have a readable overview of critical theories." -- English Literature in Transition

"Distinguished chiefly by its clarity and impartiality, this is a useful guide to the main schools of contemporary critical thought." -- Journal of Modern Literature

"An extremely helpful volume." -- South Atlantic Review

"The ideal crash course. Remarkable for its clarity." -- Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

Raman Selden is late Professor of English at the University of Sunderland.

Peter Widdowson is Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Gloucestershire. His most recent books include: Literature (1999); The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and its Contexts 1500–2000 (2004); and Graham Swift (2005).

Peter Brooker is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is the author most recently of  Modernity and Metropolis. Literature, Film and Urban Formations (2002); Bohemiain London. The Social Scene of Early Modernism (2004); and A Glossary of Cultural Theory (second edition, 2002). He is co-editor of Geographies of Modernism (2005) and co-founder of ‘The Modernist Magazines Project’.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0813108160
• ISBN 13: 9780813108162
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 258