This introductory book takes the reader through literary history from the Renaissance to Postmodernism, and considers individual texts as paradigms which can both reflect and unsettle their broader linguistic and cultural contexts. Richard Bradford provides detailed readings of individual texts which emphasize their relation to literary history and broader socio-cultural contexts, and which take into account developments in structuralism and postmodernism. Texts include poems by Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Hopkins, Browning,...
This introductory book takes the reader through literary history from the Renaissance to Postmodernism, and considers individual texts as paradigms wh...
Since the early 1960s the academic certainties of traditional literary studies have been challenged by techniques and perspectives borrowed from other disciplines. And this so-called crisis in English studies is now being complicated by the recent changes in the institutional structure of education. This collection provides an overview of how critical theory operates in practice and a guide to the state of theory today. Topics discussed include: gender, race, the gothic, the value of student theory guides, and the impact of theory on teaching practice, and the future for theory in our...
Since the early 1960s the academic certainties of traditional literary studies have been challenged by techniques and perspectives borrowed from other...
