An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
Autor Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royleen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 mar 2023
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032158846
ISBN-10: 1032158840
Pagini: 540
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.83 kg
Ediția:6 ed
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032158840
Pagini: 540
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.83 kg
Ediția:6 ed
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Undergraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate CoreRecenzii
Praise for previous editions:
‘This is a book which students in every introductory course on criticism and theory would benefit from having.’ Derek Attridge, University of York
‘[Bennett and Royle have] cracked the problem of how to be introductory and sophisticated, accessible but not patronising.’ Peter Buse, English Subject Centre Newsletter
‘Sparkling, enthusiastic and admirably well-informed.’ Hélène Cixous
‘The best introduction to literary studies on the market.’ Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
‘This excellent book is very well written and an outstanding introduction to literary studies. An extremely stimulating introduction.’ Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway College, University of London
‘Fresh, surprising, never boring, and engagingly humorous, while remaining intellectually serious and challenging . . . This is a terrific book, and I’m very glad that it exists.’ Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California
‘An exceptional book. It is completely different from anything else currently available, refreshing, extremely well written and original in so many ways . . . It is quite the best introductory book that I have ever come across.’ Philip Martin, Sheffield Hallam University
‘By far the best introduction we have, bar none. This unmatched book is for everyone: from those beginning literary study, through advanced students, and up to teachers; even those who, like me, have been pro- fessing literature for years and years.’ J. Hillis Miller, University of California
‘All the chapters in the volume are illuminating, informative and original.’ Robert Mills, King’s College London
‘I don’t know of any book that could, or does, compete with this one. It is irreplaceable.’ Richard Rand, University of Alabama
‘Bennett and Royle have written a pathbreaking work’ Alan Shima, University of Gävle
‘It is by far the best and most readable of all such introductions that I know of’ Hayden White, University of California at Santa Cruz
‘The most un-boring, unnerving, unpretentious textbook I’ve ever come across.’ Elizabeth Wright, University of Cambridge
‘This is a book which students in every introductory course on criticism and theory would benefit from having.’ Derek Attridge, University of York
‘[Bennett and Royle have] cracked the problem of how to be introductory and sophisticated, accessible but not patronising.’ Peter Buse, English Subject Centre Newsletter
‘Sparkling, enthusiastic and admirably well-informed.’ Hélène Cixous
‘The best introduction to literary studies on the market.’ Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
‘This excellent book is very well written and an outstanding introduction to literary studies. An extremely stimulating introduction.’ Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway College, University of London
‘Fresh, surprising, never boring, and engagingly humorous, while remaining intellectually serious and challenging . . . This is a terrific book, and I’m very glad that it exists.’ Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California
‘An exceptional book. It is completely different from anything else currently available, refreshing, extremely well written and original in so many ways . . . It is quite the best introductory book that I have ever come across.’ Philip Martin, Sheffield Hallam University
‘By far the best introduction we have, bar none. This unmatched book is for everyone: from those beginning literary study, through advanced students, and up to teachers; even those who, like me, have been pro- fessing literature for years and years.’ J. Hillis Miller, University of California
‘All the chapters in the volume are illuminating, informative and original.’ Robert Mills, King’s College London
‘I don’t know of any book that could, or does, compete with this one. It is irreplaceable.’ Richard Rand, University of Alabama
‘Bennett and Royle have written a pathbreaking work’ Alan Shima, University of Gävle
‘It is by far the best and most readable of all such introductions that I know of’ Hayden White, University of California at Santa Cruz
‘The most un-boring, unnerving, unpretentious textbook I’ve ever come across.’ Elizabeth Wright, University of Cambridge
Cuprins
Alternative Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
How to Read This Book
Trigger Warning and Spoiler Alert
A Note on Texts Used
Literary Works Discussed
Bibliography of Critical and Theoretical Works
Index
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
A Note on Texts Used
Literary Works Discussed
Bibliography of Critical and Theoretical Works
Index
Notă biografică
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).
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).
Descriere
Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. 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.