Castle The Literary Theory Handbook

2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-33158-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Literature Handbooks

The Literary Theory Handbook introduces studentsto the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how toperform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding ofthe historical contexts for different theories.
* A new edition of this highly successful text, which includesupdated and refined chapters, and new sections on contemporarytheories
* Far reaching in its inclusion of a detailed history of theoryand in-depth discussions of major theories and movements
* Four distinct perspectives on theory--historical,thematic, biographical, practical--are carefully intertwined,so that key concepts, terms and ideas are developed in differentcontexts and cross-referenced, in the text and in the index.
* Includes alphabetically-arranged biographies designed for quickreference, and sample readings to illustrate the practicalapplication of theory

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castle, Gregory

Über Autor(innen)

Gregory Castle is a professor of British and Irishliterature at Arizona State University. He is author ofModernism and the Celtic Revival (2001), Reading theModernist Bildungsroman (2006), and The BlackwellGuide to Literary Theory (2007) and has editedPostcolonial Discourses (2000) and the Encyclopedia ofLiterary and Cultural Theory, vol. 1 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).He has also published numerous essays on Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, andother Irish writers.