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This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close raeding of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines:

• major thinkers and critics from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Said and Butler;
• key concepts, themes and schools in the history of literary theory: mimesis, inspiration, reason and emotion, the self, the relation of literature to history, society, culture and...

Toni Morrison's visionary explorations of freedom and identity, self and community, against the backdrop of African American history have established her as one of the foremost novelists of her time; an artist whose seriousness of purpose and imaginative power have earned her both widespread critical acclaim and great popular success.

This guide to Morrison's work offers:

• an accessible introduction to Morrison's life and historical contexts
• a guide to her key works and the themes and concerns that run through them
• an overview of critical texts and...

This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as historical phase and as theoretical field. The authors look back on their own contributions to the postmodernism debate of the 1980s and 1990s and address the ways in which the contemporary world and their own concerns have developed, and the continuing validity or otherwise of 'postmodern' as a master designator of the contemporary.
Following a substantial introductory survey, the 15 compact articles...

This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from classical antiquity to the present. It is almost impossible to read or study literature without acknowledging its relationship to criticism and this guide shows how the two have been inextricable since Plato. Introducing theory and criticism through the texts themselves, Pelagia Goulimari examines: a variety of key thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through to Foucault and Derrida topics and themes in the history of literary criticism such as mimesis and creation, inspiration, the...

This guide to Morrison's trail-blazing work offers an introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of her texts, from publication to the present. It is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Toni Morrison and seeking a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.