Dictionary of Cultural and Critical 2e

Jessica Rae Barbera

ISBN 10: 1405168900 / ISBN 13: 9781405168908

Published by Wiley Mai 2010, 2010

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Neuware - Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory\* Updated to feature over 40 new entries including pieces on Alain Badiou, Ecocriticism, Comparative Racialization , Ordinary Language Philosophy and Criticism, and Graphic Narrative\* Includes reflective, broad-ranging articles from leading theorists including Julia Kristeva, Stanley Cavell, and Simon Critchley\* Features a fully updated bibliography\* Wide-ranging content makes this an invaluable dictionary for students of a diverse range of disciplines.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dictionary of Cultural and Critical 2e
• Publisher: Wiley Mai 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405168900
• ISBN 13: 9781405168908
• Binding: Buch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 250W x 175H x 49D millimeters 250 millimeters width by 175 millimeters height by 49 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1592 grams

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Synopsis

Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory

• Updated to feature over 40 new entries including pieces on Alain Badiou, Ecocriticism, Comparative Racialization , Ordinary Language Philosophy and Criticism, and Graphic Narrative
• Includes reflective, broad-ranging articles from leading theorists including Julia Kristeva, Stanley Cavell, and Simon Critchley
• Features a fully updated bibliography
• Wide-ranging content makes this an invaluable dictionary for students of a diverse range of disciplines

About the Author

Michael Payne is Professor of English Emeritus at Bucknell University, USA. He is general editor for The Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory (with Harold Scheizer, 12 vols., 1990–1995); author of Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva (1993) and Reading Knowledge:  An Introduction to Barthes, Foucault, and Althusser (1997); and editor of Renaissance Literature: An Anthology (with John Hunter, 2003), and The Greenblatt Reader (with Stephen Greenblatt, 2005) all published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Jessica Rae Barbera is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Her areas of specialization include Cultural and Critical Theory, British Modernism, Psychoanalysis, Literatures of Medicine and Science, Illness Narratives, and Memoir. She is the recipient of the 2009-2010 Andrew Mellon Fellowship, and is currently at work on her dissertation, The Medicalization of Pain: The Human in the 20th Century.