Retaining the valuable features of the original book, this revision provides coverage of the main literary theories and useful further readings as well as bibliographies. Remaining true to its title, this new edition adds new material on 'contemporary' literary theories, such as: cultural materialism, post-colonial theory, feminist theory, Black British, African-American, Asian, Caribbean theory, and Gay and Lesbian theory.

Preface to the Fifth Edition

Introduction

1. New Criticism, moral formalism and F. R. Leavis

2. Russian formalism and the Bakhtin school

3. Reader-oriented theories

4. Structuralist theories

5. Marxist theories

6. Feminist theories

7. Poststructuralist theories

8. Postmodernist theories

9. Postcolonialist theories

10. Gay, lesbian and queer theories

Conclusion: Post-Theory

Appendix 1: Recommended glossaries of theoretical and critical terms and concepts

Appendix 2: Literary, critical and cultural theory journals

Index 
 

Peter Widdowson is Professor of Literature at the University of Gloucester.?Peter Brooker is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at University College, Northampton. 

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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