Books for Literary and Critical Theory Courses

The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

2nd Edition

Edited by Paul Wake, Simon Malpas

Series: Routledge Companions

Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and...

Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

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

The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism

3rd Edition

Edited by Stuart Sim

Series: Routledge Companions

This fully revised third edition of The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism provides the ideal introduction to postmodernist thought. Featuring contributions from a cast of international scholars, the Companion contains 19 detailed essays on major themes and topics along with an A-Z of key terms...

Published June 26th 2011 by Routledge

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

By Jason Edwards

Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was one of the most significant literary theorists of the last forty years and a key figure in contemporary queer theory. In this engaging and inspiring guide, Jason Edwards: introduces and explains key terms such as affects, the first person, homosocialities, and queer...

Published August 26th 2008 by Routledge

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

Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts

2nd Edition

Edited by Andrew Edgar, Peter Sedgwick

Series: Routledge Key Guides

Now in its second edition, Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts is an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of over 350 of the key terms central to cultural theory today. This second edition includes new entries on: colonialism cybercultur globalisation terrorism visual studies....

Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge

Literary Theory: The Basics

2nd Edition

By Hans Bertens

Series: The Basics

With a new introduction and fully updated pointers to further reading, this second edition of Hans Bertens’ bestselling book is a must-have guide to the world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to post-modernism and new historicism...

Published October 3rd 2007 by Routledge

Critical Theory Today

A User-Friendly Guide, 2nd Edition

By Lois Tyson

This new edition of the classic guide offers a thorough and accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory. It provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and...

Published August 13th 2006 by Routledge

Fifty Key Literary Theorists

By Richard J. Lane

Series: Routledge Key Guides

Covering over a century's worth of debate, thinking and writing about literature, this is a unique guide to the lives and works of fifty theorists who have left an indelible mark on literary studies. Featuring theorists such as Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud and Edward Said, this...

Published June 27th 2006 by Routledge

The Narrative Reader

Edited by Martin McQuillan

The Narrative Reader aims to provide a comprehensive survey of narrative theories ranging from Plato to Post-Structuralism. The selection of texts is bold and broad, demonstrating the extent to which narrative permeates the entire field of literature and culture. It shows the ways in which...

Published October 18th 2000 by Routledge

The Green Studies Reader

From Romanticism to Ecocriticism

Edited by Laurence Coupe

Green Studies is a booming area for study and The Green Studies Reader is a fantastically comprehensive selection of critical texts which address the connection between ecology, culture, and literature. It offers a complete guide to the growing area of 'ecocriticism' and a wealth of material on...

Published August 2nd 2000 by Routledge

Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook

By Keith Green, Jill LeBihan

Critical Teory and Practice answers lots of questions, but also stimulates new ones. Its tailor-made combination of survey, reader and workbook is ideal for the beginning - perhaps even bewildered - student of literary theory. The work is divided into seven chapters, each of which contains guiding...

Published December 6th 1995 by Routledge

Textual Scholarship

An Introduction

By David C. Greetham

Published April 30th 1994 by Routledge