A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory - Softcover

Selden, Raman; Widdowson, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813108160 ISBN 13: 9780813108162

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 1993

Synopsis

Unsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This 4th edition aims to retain the valuable features of the original book; brevity, even coverage of the main literary theories and useful further readings and bibliographies. At the same time the new edition adds new material on 'contemporary' literary theories, such as: cultural materialism, post-colonial theory, feminist theory, Black British, African-American, Asian, Caribbean theory, and Gay and Lesbian theory.

From the Back Cover:

The liveliest and most readable and reliable guide to contemporary literary theory, Raman Selden's classic text is now available in an updated Third Edition, substantially revised to bring you into the vanguard of current theory.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0813108160
• ISBN 13: 9780813108162
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 288