The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

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Author: Vincent B. Leitch

ISBN-10: 0393932923

ISBN-13: 9780393932928

Category: Literary Theory

The most comprehensive anthology of theory and criticism, now up-to-date and global.\ \ The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism is the gold standard for anyone who wishes to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Offering 185 pieces (31 of them new) by 148 authors (18 of them new), The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Second Edition, is more comprehensive, and more varied, in its selection than any other anthology. New selections from non-western theory...

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The most comprehensive anthology of theory and criticism, now up-to-date and global.BooknewsThis welcome addition to the Norton anthologies binds the writings from 148 authorsamong them Gorgias of Leontini, Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Quintilian, Dante, Corneille, Dryden, Aphra Behn, Vico, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Poe, Baudelaire, Lukacs, Heidegger, Gramsci, Barthes, Raymond Williams, Haraway, Hebdige, hooks, Judith Butler, and the most recent theorist, Stuart Moulthrop. Writers are arranged according to linear time, but can be found in an alternative table of contents under movements (e.g., cultural studies, deconstruction and poststructuralism, queer theory); genres (poetry, novel, etc.); historical periods, and within a section called "Issues and Topics" (e.g., the body, authorship, the canon, narrative, representation and realism, the modern). Each author is substantially and substantively introduced, and then provided with a bibliography. Issues of race, nationality, class, gender, and sexuality are well- represented, but those of species and (dis)ability, nearly absent. A necessary reader and money-saver for the English graduate student. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

\ BooknewsThis welcome addition to the Norton anthologies binds the writings from 148 authors<-->among them Gorgias of Leontini, Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Quintilian, Dante, Corneille, Dryden, Aphra Behn, Vico, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Poe, Baudelaire, Lukacs, Heidegger, Gramsci, Barthes, Raymond Williams, Haraway, Hebdige, hooks, Judith Butler, and the most recent theorist, Stuart Moulthrop. Writers are arranged according to linear time, but can be found in an alternative table of contents under movements (e.g., cultural studies, deconstruction and poststructuralism, queer theory); genres (poetry, novel, etc.); historical periods, and within a section called "Issues and Topics" (e.g., the body, authorship, the canon, narrative, representation and realism, the modern). Each author is substantially and substantively introduced, and then provided with a bibliography. Issues of race, nationality, class, gender, and sexuality are well- represented, but those of species and (dis)ability, nearly absent. A necessary reader and money-saver for the English graduate student. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \