Critical Terms for Literary Study, Second Edition
Language: English
Published by The University of Chicago Press, 1995
Series: Book 4 of 4 - Critical Terms
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This expanded edition features six new chapters, each of which provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions that the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies that the term permits.
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- Title
- Critical Terms for Literary Study, Second Edition
- Author
- Frank Lentricchia
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226472035
- ISBN 13
- 9780226472034
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Series
- Book 4 of 4: Critical Terms
An essential primer and guide to literary studies for students and scholars
Critical Terms for Literary Study is an essential handbook and introduction to the work of literary theory. Covering a broad range of key terms that include popular culture, diversity, imperialism, ethics, desire, class, gender, race, canon, representation, and much more through essays by leading scholars, it provides a concise history of each term alongside a critical exploration of the issues and questions for the field that it raises, followed by demonstrations of reading strategies driven by the term.
Exploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study, as the nation's most distinguished scholars put the tools of critical practice vividly to use.
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