Critical theory today
Subtitle: a user-friendly guide
By: Lois Tyson
Edition: Third edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780415506748; 9780415506755
Subjects: Criticism; Critical theory
Description: "This thoroughly updated third edition of 'Critical Theory Today' offers an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today, including: feminism; psychoanalysis; Marxism; reader-response theory; New Criticism; structuralism and semiotics; deconstruction; new historicism and cultural criticism; lesbian, gay, and queer theory; African American criticism and postcolonial criticism."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Everything you wanted to know about critical theory but were afraid to ask -- -- 1.; title: Psychoanalytic criticism -- -- 3.; title: Marxist criticism -- -- 4.; title: Feminist criticism -- -- 5.; title: New criticism -- -- 6.; title: Reader-response criticism -- -- 7.; title: Structuralist criticism -- -- 8.; title: Deconstructive criticism -- -- 9.; title: New historical and cultural criticism -- -- 10.; title: Lesbian, gay, and queer criticism -- -- 11.; title: African American criticism -- -- 12.; title: Postcolonial criticism -- -- 13.; title: Gaining an overview.