Literary Theory and Criticism by Patricia Waugh
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 important movements and thinkers in modern literary theory and Part Four looks at emergent trends and future directions.
The quality of essays is consistently high, with outstanding contributions by Timothy Clark on hermeneutics, Chris Baldick on criticism and the academy, Chris Snipp-Walmsley on post-modernism, and Sean Burke on the responsibilities of the writer* THES *
Patricia Waugh has published extensively in the field of modern fiction and criticism. She is the author of The Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Backgrounds (1995) and Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature (1997). She has also edited a number of collections and anthologies of modern literary theory, postmodernism, and most recently, The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (with David Fuller).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199258369 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199258368 |
| Title | Literary Theory and Criticism |
| Author | Patricia Waugh |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2006-01-26 |
| Number of pages | 620 |
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