by PeterWiddowson (Author), RamanSelden (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: 3rd Ed. /
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 01 Apr 1993
ISBN 10: 0813108160
ISBN 13: 9780813108162
A very clear, sustained, impartial guide. -- Choice
A good starting point for students who want to have a readable overview of critical theories. -- English Literature in Transition
Distinguished chiefly by its clarity and impartiality, this is a useful guide to the main schools of contemporary critical thought. -- Journal of Modern Literature
An extremely helpful volume. -- South Atlantic Review
The ideal crash course. Remarkable for its clarity. -- Times Literary Supplement