How To Interpret Literature
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How To Interpret Literature by Robert Parker
Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies, Third 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 studies since the 1930s, including those often omitted from other texts. It is also the only up-to-date survey of literary theory that devotes extensive treatment to Queer Theory and Postcolonial and Race Studies. How to Interpret Literature is ideal as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with an anthology of primary readings such as Robert Dale Parker's Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies. Distinctive Features * A conversational and engaging tone that speaks directly to today's students * Wider coverage than any book of its kind * A rich assortment of pedagogical features (charts, text boxes, photos, and suggestions for further reading)
How to Interpret Literature takes on an immense and formidable task- presenting to students the corpus of twentieth-century literary theory and its differing schools, conflicts, and developments-and it succeeds with a minimum of fuss, grandstanding, ponderousness at synthesizing all of this in one handy volumeParker's sensitive, responsive, measured, ethically minded, and dazzlingly well-informed approach makes theory lucid, accessible, and inviting while also acknowledging that it is an irreducibly complex, simultaneously graspable intellectual project that demands a lifetime's worth of repeated inquiry. * David Greven, University of South Carolina *
A clear, highly readable introduction to critical theory with plenty of fine explanations and illuminating examples drawn from literature, film, and music. * Paul Klemp, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh *
How to Interpret Literature is a clearly written and accessible guide to critical theory for students of English Studies. In this book students will find a friendly and readable guide to complex and often intimidating theoretical concepts. * Richard Zumkhawala-Cook, Shippensburg University *
A clear, highly readable introduction to critical theory with plenty of fine explanations and illuminating examples drawn from literature, film, and music. * Paul Klemp, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh *
How to Interpret Literature is a clearly written and accessible guide to critical theory for students of English Studies. In this book students will find a friendly and readable guide to complex and often intimidating theoretical concepts. * Richard Zumkhawala-Cook, Shippensburg University *
Robert Dale Parker is James M. Benson Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199331161 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199331162 |
| Title | How To Interpret Literature |
| Author | Robert Parker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2014-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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