Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume.

Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume.

Provides a wide-ranging guide to current directions in literary criticism
This new and revised edition provides 14 chapters introducing new modes of 'hybrid' criticism which have emerged in the twenty-first century.
The chapters provide thought-provoking overviews of critical thinking at the cutting edge. Each of the authors explains in lucid terms the various contours of their discourses while bringing these into sharp relief for the student reader through readings of canonical novels, poems, plays, films and websites.
The book is organised into five areas of critical concern -...

Silent Music is a 'theoretical' novel that explores through its narrative and the central analogy between love and music, several themes now common to literary theory and interdisciplinary studies working at the intersection of memory studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy, historiography, rhetoric and poststructuralism. The novel, which moves between 1976-1983, and between the Isle of Wight and northern Europe, is a novel about identity and Being. The first half describes a series of 'first encounters' between the main characters and details the developing relationship between Annagreth and...