Key Concepts in Literary Theory

✍ Scribed by Julian Wolfreys, Ruth Robbins, Kenneth Womack

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Key Concepts in Literary Theory provides authoritative and precise definitions of the most significant terms and concepts currently used in psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, Marxist, feminist, and postcolonial literary studies. The volume also presents clear discussions of the main areas of literary, critical, and cultural theory, supported by bibliographies and a chronology of major thinkers. Accompanying the chronology are short biographies of major works by each critic or theorist.

This revised edition of this comprehensive reference includes definition for more than seventy new terms and concepts, from Absurdism and Aga Saga to Writerly texts and Zeugma; a broader selection of classical rhetorical terms; an expanded chronology with a wider historical and cultural range, from Immanuel Kant to G.W.F. Hegel and bell hooks; and richer bibliographies including key texts by major critics.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface to Second Edition......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Concepts and Terms......Page 20
Areas of Literary, Critical and Cultural Study,with Bibliographies......Page 124
Chronology of Critical Thinkers, with Bibliographies......Page 178