description: The Bedford Glossary includes lengthy (and easy-to-follow) discussions of ideas including such biggies as cultural studies, deconstruction, feminist criticism, gender criticism, irony, Marxist criticism, the new historicism, poststructuralism, psychological criticism and psychoanalytic criticism, and reader-response criticism. More obscure terms--anagnorisis, epithalamium, Menippean satire, kenning--receive shorter but equally careful treatment. This is a clear and comprehensive reference for academics, intellectuals, and anyone else who wants to hold forth intelligently on subjects literary and critical. --Jane Steinberg 
language: English
title: The Bedford Glossary Of Critical And Literary Terms
titlecomplete: The Bedford Glossary Of Critical And Literary Terms
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Reference, Theory, Textbooks, Academic, Writing, Language, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 225
publisher: Palgrave