About this title: Edited by Patricia Waugh, this comprehensive guide to literary theory and criticism includes 39 specially commissioned chapters by an outstanding international team of academics. The volume is divided into four parts. Part One covers the key philosophical and aesthetic origins of literary theory, Part Two looks at the foundational movements and ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780199258369ISBN:0199258368
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 246x189 mm. (624) edited by patricia waugh, this comprehensive guide to literary theory and criticism includes 39 specially commissioned chapters by an outstanding international team of academics. the volume is divided into four parts. part one covers the key philosophical and aesthetic origins of literary theory, part two looks at the foundational movements and thinkers in the first half of the twentieth century, part three offers introductory overviews of the most ... read more
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780199258369ISBN:0199258368
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Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly imported from the UK using DHL or Royal Mail international mail WITH TRACKING NUMBER. D elivery is typically 5-10 working days. Please do not select expedited shipping. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). Edited by Patricia Waugh, this comprehensive guide to literary theory and criticism includes 39 specially commissioned chapters by an outstanding international team of academics. The volume is divided into four parts. Part One covers the ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, UK
ISBN-13:9780199258369ISBN:0199258368
Description: New. We are no longer able to guarantee delivery by Christmas. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. This volume offers a comprehensive account of modern literary criticism, presenting the field as part of an ongoing historical and intellectual tradition. Featuring thirty-nine specially commissioned chapters from an international team of esteemed contributors, it fills a large gap in ... read more
"So far the best single guide I know. The Bennett and Royle is superb, but they to often resort to the suspended law of non-contradiction. Waugh, by contrast, gives us a great many voices and approaches, and, moreover, by combining both thematic sections and traditional review of schools, provides tools both for the usual intro to lit theory course and far more ambitious courses. Overall, the tendency in Waugh could be said to be typically that of the UK, in that its interests tend towards explorations of the possibilities of resisting capitalism. Oddly, though, for a book whose ultimate affinities may be to Marxism, it is generally resistant to historicism.
There are several essays that, missing the practical point of the book, attempt to shift whole critical discourses rather than providing an introduction to same, especially Paccaud-Huguet on 'Psychoanalysis After Freud,' Hamilton on 'Reconstructing Historicism,' and Punter on 'Anti-Canon Theory.' Some will work, if at all, only with strenuous classroom effort: Bandfield on I.A. Richards, Shereen on the Aristotelian Chicago critical approach, and Onega on Structuralism. Given the size of the book, however, it's no trouble at all to teach only what you think will work best."
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