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Fresh, original and compelling, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘the beginning’ and concluding with ‘the end’, the book covers topics that range from the familiar (character, narrative, the author) to the more unusual (secrets, pleasure, ghosts). Eschewing abstract isms, Bennett and Royle successfully illuminate complex ideas by engaging directly with literary works – so that a reading of Jane Eyre opens up ways of thinking about racial difference, whilst Chaucer, Raymond Chandler and Monty Python are all invoked in a discussion of literary laughter. Each chapter ends with a narrative guide to further reading and the book also includes a glossary and bibliography. The fourth edition has been revised to incorporate two timely new chapters on animals and the environment.
A breath of fresh air in a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this book will open the reader’s eyes to the exhilarating possibilities of both reading and studying literature.
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'The best introduction to literary study on the market' Jonathan Culler,
Cornell University'
'The most un-boring, unnerving, unpretentious textbook I've ever come across'
Elizabeth Wright, University of Cambridge
'It is by far the bext and most readable of all such introductions that I know of...The treatment of the various topics is masterful, even-handed, and informative. I cannot think of a better introduction for undergraduates, to be sure, but for many graduate students too.'
Hayden White, University of California at Santa Cruz
I don't know of any book that could, or does, compete with this one. It is irreplaceable'
Richard Rand, University of Alabama
(Bennett and Royle have) cracked the problem of how to be introductory and sophisticated, accessible but not patronising.'
Peter Buse, English Subject Centre Newsletter
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory provides a completely fresh and original introduction to literary studies.
Bennett & Royle approach their subject by way of literary works themselves (a poem by Emily Dickinson, a passage from Shakespeare, a novel by Salman Rushdie), rather than by way of abstract theoretical ideas and isms. In thirty-two short chapters they focus on a range of familiar-looking terms (character, the author, voice, narrative) as well as less obvious ones (laughter, pleasure, ghosts, secrets) in order to show why such literary texts are so compelling. This third edition updates and expands on earlier editions, and includes new chapters on:
- creative writing
- literature and film
- war
- monsters, mutants and the inhuman
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory avoids what is so frequently tiresome or intimidating about 'theory', offering instead an introduction that is consistently entertaining, thought provoking and surprising.
The Authors
The authors have wide experience of teaching and lecturing on literature and literary theory at universities in Britain, Europe and the United States. Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol and Nicholas Royle is Professor English at the University of Sussex.
Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK.
Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, UK.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1138127116
- ISBN 13 9781138127111
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number4
- Number of pages392
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