An Introduction To Post-Colonial Theory

The first book of its kind in the field, this timely introduction to post- colonial theory offers lucid and accessible summaries of the major work of key theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Edward Said.Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak. The Guide also Explores the lines of resistance against colonialism and highlights the theories of post-colonial identity that have been responsible for generating some of the most influential and challenging critical work of recent decades. Designed for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses related to colonialisn or post-colonialism, the book summarieses the major topics and issues as well as covering the contributions of major and less familiar figures in the field.

Literature & Fiction

Childs, Peter

Williams, Patrick

History & Criticism

Routledge

Reading Fiction: Opening the Text

This book contains close readings of the opening pages of 24 widely taught texts, from Robinson Crusoe to The Buddha of Suburbia. Offering a wide coverage of English literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries, Reading Fiction illustrates a diverse range of approaches to the close reading of prose fiction. Childs' analyses are to both an overview of modes of fiction over the last 300 years as well as a guide to the methods and techniques of close reading.

Hutton, M.

British & Irish

Red Globe Press

This book contains close readings of the opening pages of 24 widely taught texts, from Robinson Crusoe to The Buddha of Suburbia. Offering a wide coverage of English literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries, Reading Fiction illustrates a diverse range of approaches to the close reading of prose fiction. Childs' analyses are to both an overview of modes of fiction over the last 300 years as well as a guide to the methods and techniques of close reading.

Palgrave

A succinct but authoritative analysis of one of the most important literary innovations of the last hundred years. This guide explains the pan-European origins of the radical literary changes which occurred in the novel, poetry and drama.

Modernism (The New Critical Idiom)

Arts & Photography

The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms (Routledge Dictionaries)

A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels.  With over forty newly commissioned entries, this essential reference book includes:  an exhaustive range of entries, covering such topics as genre, form, cultural theory and literary technique new definitions of contemporary critical issues such as Cybercriticism and Globalization complete coverage of traditional and radical approaches to the study and production of literature thorough accounts of critical terminology and analyses of key academic debates full cross-referencing throughout and suggestions for further reading.   Covering both long-established terminology as well as the specialist vocabulary of modern theoretical schools, The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is an indispensable guide to the principal terms and concepts encountered in debates over literary studies in the twenty-first century.

Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love (1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled readers around the world. Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of this haunting novel to offer:  an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Enduring Love a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new and reprinted critical essays on Enduring Love, by Kiernan Ryan, Sean Matthews, Martin Randall, Paul Edwards, Rhiannon Davies and Peter Childs, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading.  Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Enduring Love and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds it.

Ian McEwan's Enduring Love (Routledge Guides to Literature)

Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love (1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled readers around the world. Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of this haunting novel to offer: <ul>
<li>an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Enduring Love</li> <li>a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present</li> <li>a selection of new and reprinted critical essays on Enduring Love, by Kiernan Ryan, Sean Matthews, Martin Randall, Paul Edwards, Rhiannon Davies and Peter Childs, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section</li> <li>cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism</li> <li>suggestions for further reading. </li>
</ul>
Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Enduring Love and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds it.

The modernist movement radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and its effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution. In this fully updated and revised second edition, charting the movement in its global and local contexts, Peter Childs:  details the origins of the modernist movement and the influence of thinkers such as Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein  explores the radical changes which occurred in the literature, drama, art and film of the period  traces 'modernism at work' in Anglophone literatures, especially in writings by a range of key figures including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Nella Larsen, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, and many others  reflects upon the shift from modernism to postmodernism.  At once accessible and critically informed, Modernism guides readers from first steps in the field to an advanced understanding of one of the most important cultural movements of the last centuries.

The modernist movement radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and its effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution. In this fully updated and revised second edition, charting the movement in its global and local contexts, Peter Childs: <ul>
<li>details the origins of the modernist movement and the influence of thinkers such as Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein </li> <li>explores the radical changes which occurred in the literature, drama, art and film of the period </li> <li>traces 'modernism at work' in Anglophone literatures, especially in writings by a range of key figures including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Nella Larsen, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, and many others </li> <li>reflects upon the shift from modernism to postmodernism. </li>
</ul>
At once accessible and critically informed, Modernism guides readers from first steps in the field to an advanced understanding of one of the most important cultural movements of the last centuries.

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An Introduction To Post-Colonial Theory

Reading Fiction: Opening the Text

Reading Fiction: Opening the Text

Modernism (The New Critical Idiom)

Modernism (The New Critical Idiom)

The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms (Routledge Dictionaries)

Ian McEwan's Enduring Love (Routledge Guides to Literature)

Ian McEwan's Enduring Love (Routledge Guides to Literature)

Modernism (The New Critical Idiom)

Modernism (The New Critical Idiom)