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_b.B463 1999
100 1 _aBennett, Andrew,
_d1960 Dec. 2-
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245 1 3 _aAn Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory /
_cAndrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle.
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _aHarlow :
_bPrentice Hall,
_c1999.
300 _aviii, 304 p. ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aBibliography p. 218-229.
505 _a*The Beginning*Readers and Reading*The Author*The Text and the World*The Uncanny*Narrative*Character*Voice*Figures and Tropes*Laughter*The Tragic*History*Me*Sexual Difference*God*Ideology*Desire*Suspense*Racial Difference*The Performative*Secrets*The Postmodern*Pleasure*Queer*Ghosts*The Colony*Monuments*The End.
520 _aThe new edition has been thoroughly revised but retains the same winning characteristics of its predecessor: presenting the key critical concepts in literary studies today, avoiding the jargonistic, abstract nature of much 'theory'. The authors then apply these concepts through readings of a range of literary texts from Chaucer to Achebe and from Milton to Morrison.*explores emerging areas of literary studies - postcolonial theory, queer theory including a reading of works by writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jeanette Winterson*considers works by T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and Toni Morrison, looking at questions of influence, intertextuality and the ghostly*offers a reading of Kafka's 'The Penal Colony', alongside the critical work of Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Robert Young and Gayatri Spivak*examines current debates about the canon
650 0 _aCriticism.
_9172
650 0 _aLiterature
_xHistory and criticism
_xTheory, etc.
_9173
700 1 _aRoyle, Nicholas,
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