num_pages: 290
description: This book has been helping students navigate through the thickest of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade now. This new and expanded third edition continues to offer students and readers the best one-volume introduction to the field.The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unraveled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics and the theories they represent, Peter Barry allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles and concepts have been grasped.
language: English
title: Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
titlecomplete: Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
genres: Literature, School, Criticism, Theory, Reference, Philosophy, Textbooks, Academic, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2684
publisher: Manchester University Press