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The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory book cover

2nd Edition

The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

Edited By Paul Wake, Simon Malpas Copyright 2013
360 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge
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Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship... Read more

Editor’s Introduction  Introduction to the 2nd Edition  Part I: Critical Theory: Introductory Essays  1. Structuralism and Semiotics Kate McGowan  2. Narrative and Narratology Paul Wake  3. Marxism Glyn Daly  4. Poststructuralism Catherine Belsey  5. Historicism Simon Malpas  6. Psychoanalytic Criticism Rob Lapsley  7. Deconstruction Andrew Benjamin  8. Feminism Susan Hekman  9. Gender and Queer Theory Donald E. Hall  10. Postmodernism Linda Hutcheon  11. Race and Postcoloniality Apollo Amoko  12. Posthumanism Neil Badminton (proposed contributor)  13. Trauma Theory Dominick LaCapra (proposed contributor)  14. Green Theory/Ecocriticism Laurence Coupe (proposed contributor)  Part II: Names and Terms  Part III: History and Context

Biography

Paul Wake is a lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University where he specialises in narrative and literary theory.

Simon Malpas is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University. His research interests include research interests include aesthetics, continental philosophy, literary theory and postmodernism, and he is the author of The Postmodern (Routledge, 2006).

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