An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory

6th Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-032-15884-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Beginning’ and concluding with ‘The End’, chapters range from the familiar, such as ‘Character’, ‘Narrative’ and ‘The Author’, to the more unusual, such as ‘Secrets’, ‘Pleasure’ and ‘Ghosts’. Now in its sixth edition, Bennett and Royle’s classic textbook successfully illuminates complex ideas by engaging directly with literary works, so that a reading of Jane Eyre opens up ways of thinking about racial difference, for example, while Chaucer, Monty Python and Hilary Mantel are all invoked in a discussion of literature and laughter.

The sixth edition has been revised and updated throughout. In addition, four new chapters – ‘Literature’, ‘Loss’, ‘Human’ and ‘Migrant’ – engage with exciting recent developments in literary studies. As well as fully up-to-date further reading sections at the end of each chapter, the book contains a comprehensive bibliography and an invaluable glossary of key literary terms.

A breath of fresh air in a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this book will open the reader’s eyes to the exhilarating possibilities of reading and studying literature.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, Andrew

Royle, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Alternative Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

How to Read This Book

Trigger Warning and Spoiler Alert

- The Beginning

- Literature

- Readers and Reading

- The Author

- The Text and the World

- The Uncanny

- Monuments

- Narrative

- Character

- Voice

- Figures and Tropes

- Creative Writing

- Feelings

- Loss

- Laughter

- The Tragic

- Wounds

- History

- Me

- Eco

- Animals

- Human

- Ghosts

- Body

- Moving Pictures

- Sexual Difference

- God

- Ideology

- Love

- Desire

- Queer

- Suspense

- Racial Difference

- Migrant

- The Colony

- Mutant

- The Performative

- Secrets

- Pleasure

- War

- The End

Glossary

A Note on Texts Used

Literary Works Discussed

Bibliography of Critical and Theoretical Works

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He publishes on Romantic and twentieth-century literature and on literary theory. His books include This Thing Called Literature (2015, co-authored with Nicholas Royle), Suicide Century: Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace (2017), Ignorance: Literature and Agnoiology (2009) and The Author (2005).

Nicholas Royle is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Sussex. He is author of many critical books, including Veering: A Theory of Literature (2011) and How to Read Shakespeare (2014), as well as novels such as An English Guide to Birdwatching (2017) and memoirs, most recently David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine (2023).