How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies

by Robert Dale Parker

Book Overview

Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies, Second Edition, presents an up-to-date, concise, and wide-ranging historicist survey of contemporary thinking in critical theory.

The only book of its kind that thoroughly merges literary studies with cultural studies, this text provides a critical look at the major movements in literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019975750X
• ISBN13: 9780199757503
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Recommended for its Clarity and Quality

This book is an informative survey in critical theory. It's incredibly accessible, but if you want to dig deeper into the concepts, there's plenty of material there. If you're an programmer considering taking an English course, know that this book is to criticism as K & R is to C. It's that good. :) I'll be using is as a desktop reference for all future work in English.