An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory

  • An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    By Nicholas Royle, Andrew Bennett

    Thus, for example, R.S. Crane argues in an essay first published in 1935 that literary history is essentially part of 'the general history of culture' (Crane 1967, 20), while a 'program of literary studies based on criticism' would ...

  • An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    By Nicholas Royle, Andrew Bennett

    New Haven: Yale University Press. Girard, René. 1965. Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure, trans. Yvonne Freccero. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Girard, René. 1986.

  • An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    By Nicholas Royle, Andrew Bennett

    Raymond Williams's The Country and the City (1973) is an important and influential precursor of ecocriticism, and Jonathan Bate's' Romantic Ecology (1991) is another influential early intervention in the field, mainly focused on ...

  • An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    By Nicholas Royle, Andrew Bennett

    Now in its fifth 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, ...

  • An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    By Nicholas Royle, Andrew Bennett

    For a valuable and thought-provoking account of racism in relation to the emergence and functioning of the modern nation state, see David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State (2002), and see Platt and Upstone, eds, Postmodern Literature and ...

  • An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    By Nicholas Royle, Andrew Bennett

    The new edition has been thoroughly revised but retains the same winning characteristics of its predecessor: presenting the key critical concepts in literary studies today, avoiding the jargonistic, abstract nature...

  • An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    By Nicholas Royle, Andrew Bennett

    A new edition of one of the market leading texts for those interested in critical theory and its effect on our reading of the English literary canon. Renowned for its...

  • An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    By Nicholas Royle, Andrew Bennett

    ... Elizabeth Bishop's marvellous poem 'One Art', with its plangent, ironic celebration of what she calls 'the art of ... Guide to the Galaxy – are about loss. Indeed, what is comical is perhaps indissociable from a sense of the human as a ...