Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0199291330 ISBN 13: 9780199291335

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2006

Riassunto

Edited by Patricia Waugh, this comprehensive guide to literary theory and criticism includes 39 specially commissioned chapters by an outstanding international team of academics. The volume is divided into four parts. Part One covers the key philosophical and aesthetic origins of literary theory, Part Two looks at the foundational movements and thinkers in the first half of the twentieth century, Part Three offers introductory overviews of the most important movements and thinkers in modern literary theory and Part Four looks at emergent trends and future directions.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Patricia Waugh has published extensively in the field of modern fiction and criticism. She is the author of The Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Backgrounds (1995) and Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature (1997). She has also edited a number of collections and anthologies of modern literary theory and postmodernism, most recently The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (with David Fuller).

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199291330
• ISBN 13: 9780199291335
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 624
• Redattore: Waugh Patricia
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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