A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory by Michael Payne

A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory by Michael Payne

This is an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory that have developed from interactions among different modern traditions of thought. All strands of theory are represented in a volume that reflects the remarkable dissolution during the past 20 years of many of the traditional boundaries separating disciplines of study. Work in these fields that appeared before the twentieth century is included when it forms an important context for understanding later thinking. A special feature of the dictionary is the inclusion of a number of speculative or polemical essays on selected key topics or authors.Entries include movements such as deconstruction, the work of individual theorists such as Louis Althusser, Karl Marx, Raymond Williams, Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva and Virginia Woolf, and also important concepts. Invaluable to students and scholars in such disciplines as literature, film studies, cultural studies, philosophy, history, theology, linguistics, politics, law, urban studies, psychoanalysis, and women's studies. It is supported by an analytic index and a comprehensive bibliography.

Thoughtfully structured and containing an impressive array of generally well-written entries, this book will be a welcome addition to the shelves of many reference collections(Reference Reviews)

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ISBN 13	9780631207535
ISBN 10	0631207538
Title	A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory
Author	Michael Payne
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	1997-11-13
Number of pages	656
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