Literary and Critical Theory

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Routledge's Literary and Critical Theory books offer everything you could need from textbooks to research monographs. Take a look at Using Critical Theory, Lois Tyson’s introductory guide to the field, or The Routledge Queer Studies Reader, a comprehensive resource and textbook to this vibrant and interdisciplinary area. You can also see our extensive range of research and reference including the Routledge Companions series.

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  1. The Routledge Queer Studies Reader

    Edited by Donald Hall, Annamarie Jagose

    Series: Routledge Literature Readers

    The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent...

    Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Using Critical Theory

    How to Read and Write About Literature, 2nd Edition

    By Lois Tyson

    Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting area in a friendly and approachable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on major theories that students are expected...

    Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge

  3. The Routledge Reader in Rhetorical Criticism

    Edited by Brian Ott, Greg Dickinson

    Bringing together 50 key readings on rhetorical criticism in a single accessible format, The Rhetorical Criticism Reader furnishes instructors with an ideal resource for teaching and practicing the art of rhetorical criticism. Unlike existing readers and textbooks, which rely on cookie-cutter...

    Published October 16th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Ways of Reading

    Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature, 4th Edition

    By Martin Montgomery, Alan Durant, Tom Furniss, Sara Mills

    Ways of Reading is a best-selling textbook for undergraduate students of English Language and English Literature, providing readers with the tools to analyse and interpret the meanings of literary and non-literary texts. Six sections, comprising twenty five self-contained units, cover:...

    Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Theory After 'Theory'

    Edited by Jane Elliott, Derek Attridge

    This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory’s new directions, this groundbreaking collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics,...

    Published March 22nd 2011 by Routledge

  6. Theory and the Disappearing Future

    On de Man, On Benjamin

    By Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook, J. Hillis Miller, with a manuscript by Paul de Man

    Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript and facsimile print of a previously unpublished text by de Man of his handwritten notes for a lecture...

    Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge

  7. The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader

    Edited by Neil Badmington, Julia Thomas

    Everything is open to question. Nothing is sacred. Critical and cultural theory invites a rethinking of some of our most basic assumptions about who we are, how we behave, and how we interpret the world around us. The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader brings together 29 key pieces from...

    Published June 29th 2008 by Routledge

  8. Ecocriticism

    2nd Edition

    By Greg Garrard

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of cultural production, from Wordsworth and Thoreau through to Google Earth, J.M. Coetzee and Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man. Greg Garrard’s animated and accessible volume...

    Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge

  9. The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism

    By Andrew Shail

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the role of early...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge