Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications

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This clear succinct primer for literary theory provides students with a useful guide to contemporary theory and methodologies. Theoretical overviews summarize each literary approach for clarification and Application Essays by well-known scholars on works by authors such as Shakespeare Austen Melville Faulkner and Angelou represent the stated principles. The text helps students generate consistent well-focused analyses based on any of ten critical methodologies including New Criticism Psychoanalytic Analysis Deconstruction Feminist Analysis and New Historicism.