num_pages: 456
description: This accessible guide offers a thorough introduction to contemporary critical theory. It provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African-American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.
language: English
title: Critical Theory Today : A User-Friendly Guide
titlecomplete: Critical Theory Today : A User-Friendly Guide (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
genres: Philosophy, Education, School, Reference, Literature, Textbooks, Criticism, Theory, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 1375
publisher: Routledge