A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory

by Peter Widdowson and Peter Brooker

Book Overview

This introduction to practicing literary theory is a reader consisting of extracts from critical analyses, largely by 20th century Anglo-American literary critics, set around major literary texts that undergraduate students are known to be familiar with. It is specifically targeted to present literary criticism through practical examples of essays by literary theorists themselves, on texts both within and outside the literary canon. Four example...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0134425677
• ISBN13: 9780134425672
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.3"