John Peck – Literary Terms and Criticism

The new edition of this best-selling guide has been expanded to make it even more relevant to the needs of today’s students. „Literary Terms and Criticism” not only offers a comprehensive guide to English poetry, drama and the novel, but now also includes expanded essays on post-colonial literature and twentieth-century literature, plus new entries on women’s poetry, carnival, contradiction, desire, discourse, ideology, patriarchy, the subject and the text.

In addition, „Literary Terms and Criticism” continues to feature the clearest and most useful of all guides to modern critical theory. In a thoroughly revised, expanded and up-to-date section, a sequence of entries explains traditional criticism, New Criticism, feminist criticism, Marxist criticism, Russian formalism, narratology, phenomenological criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, reader-response theory, structuralism, deconstruction, post-structuralism and New Historicism. Finally, there is a new, comprehensive guide to further reading.

Many students have described „Literary Terms and Criticism” as the single most useful book they have ever bought; now, in this new edition, it is indispensable.   źródło opisu: Macmillan, 1993