An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-15884-6 (ISBN)
Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Beginning’ and concluding with ‘The End’, chapters range from the familiar, such as ‘Character’, ‘Narrative’ and ‘The Author’, to the more unusual, such as ‘Secrets’, ‘Pleasure’ and ‘Ghosts’. Now in its sixth edition, Bennett and Royle’s classic textbook successfully illuminates complex ideas by engaging directly with literary works, so that a reading of Jane Eyre opens up ways of thinking about racial difference, for example, while Chaucer, Monty Python and Hilary Mantel are all invoked in a discussion of literature and laughter.
The sixth edition has been revised and updated throughout. In addition, four new chapters – ‘Literature’, ‘Loss’, ‘Human’ and ‘Migrant’ – engage with exciting recent developments in literary studies. As well as fully up-to-date further reading sections at the end of each chapter, the book contains a comprehensive bibliography and an invaluable glossary of key literary terms.
A breath of fresh air in a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this book will open the reader’s eyes to the exhilarating possibilities of reading and studying literature.
Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He publishes on Romantic and twentieth-century literature and on literary theory. His books include This Thing Called Literature (2015, co-authored with Nicholas Royle), Suicide Century: Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace (2017), Ignorance: Literature and Agnoiology (2009) and The Author (2005). Nicholas Royle is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Sussex. He is author of many critical books, including Veering: A Theory of Literature (2011) and How to Read Shakespeare (2014), as well as novels such as An English Guide to Birdwatching (2017) and memoirs, most recently David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine (2023).
Alternative Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
How to Read This Book
Trigger Warning and Spoiler Alert
The Beginning
Literature
Readers and Reading
The Author
The Text and the World
The Uncanny
Monuments
Narrative
Character
Voice
Figures and Tropes
Creative Writing
Feelings
Loss
Laughter
The Tragic
Wounds
History
Me
Eco
Animals
Human
Ghosts
Body
Moving Pictures
Sexual Difference
God
Ideology
Love
Desire
Queer
Suspense
Racial Difference
Migrant
The Colony
Mutant
The Performative
Secrets
Pleasure
War
The End
Glossary
A Note on Texts Used
Literary Works Discussed
Bibliography of Critical and Theoretical Works
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.03.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 827 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-15884-0 / 1032158840 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-15884-6 / 9781032158846 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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