Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405176668)

Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century along with a close analysis of some of the most important and commonly taught texts from the period.

• Provides an accessible introduction to modern literary theory and criticism
  
• Places various modes of criticism within their historical and intellectual contexts
  
• Offers close readings of some of the major critical texts of the period
  
• Explores the works of a diverse group of 20th-century writers, including Babbitt, Woolf, Bakhtin, Heidegger, Lacan, Derrida, Judith Butler, Zizek, Nussbaum, Negri and Hardt
  
• Covers formalism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, reader-response criticism, historicism, gender studies, cultural studies, and film theory

Author: M. A. R. Habib
ISBN-10: 1405176660
ISBN-13: 9781405176668
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2008
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.23w x 0.80d