The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism 2e

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Those problems aside, I like the book's introductions and appreciated that for a tome of nearly 3,000 pages it carries surprisingly well in a backpack. However, as a particularly mobile student, I've lugged mine all over the place and as yet it has not been rendered damaged. Since then, I've constantly referenced the writings contained inside as an undergrad of English, then as a graduate student of journalism (interested most in ideas of replication, what it means to be "original") and finally working on my thesis, in which this book has illuminated my understanding of hegemonic structures, the artifice (? By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

This is a highly useful book for any students of literature, critical theory, philosophy, anthropology, cultural studies, media or history. Overall this book is excellent, and I would thoroughly recommend it to any student considering further education. Her first foray into mystery, Miss Baker Regrets, was published as Book II in Bricktop's Paris: African American Women in Paris Between the Two World Wars in February 2015. She was also the translator of Jacques Derrida’s Dissemination (U of Chicago P) and Stéphane Mallarmé’s Divagations (Harvard UP/Belknap Press). Just one paper in the whole thing offered what was for me a compelling and new perspective, and that was Georges Poulet's "Phenomenology of Reading.It is probably one of the most important/useful books in my library, one I find myself coming back to again and again for reference, or even just for fun.

The Norton Anthology provides a very good biography of each author, which then gives you sufficient background knowledge to be able to understand the primary texts.She was a leading figure in contemporary literary theory and the author of The Critical Difference: Essays in Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading (Johns Hopkins UP), A World of Difference (Johns Hopkins UP), The Wake of Deconstruction (Blackwell), The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychology, Race and Gender (Harvard UP), Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation (Harvard UP), and Persons and Things (Harvard UP). It can't ever hope to replace original texts of course, but either as an introduction or a handy collection for easy reference, it does hold a vast selection of real gems. I liked the course very much but it's a little hard for me to rate "how good" this Norton Anthology is; the excerpts were sometimes highly chopped up versions of much larger works. It was where I first met the likes of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Freud, and scores of other cultural critics.

Forty-eight NEW selections—concentrated mostly on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—make the book not only the best overview of the history of theory, but also a remarkably up-to-date portrait of the state of theory today. Offering 191 pieces by 157 authors, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Third Edition, is more comprehensive and more varied in its selection than any other anthology. A prominent medievalist and feminist critic, Professor Finke is the author of Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film (Johns Hopkins UP), King Arthur and the Myth of History (University Press of Florida), Feminist Theory, Women’s Writing (Cornell UP) and Women’s Writing in English: The Middle Ages (Longman) and the editor of Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers (Cornell UP). Also, each author is given an introduction that can help to understand their background as well as the theory they are known for.Forty-eight NEW selections-concentrated mostly on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries-make the book not only the best overview of the history of theory, but also a remarkably up-to-date portrait of the state of theory today. You can enter in knowing nothing and come out with a reasonable grasp of Marxism, formalism, german idealism, feminism, queer theory, reader-response theory. A foremost historian of contemporary literary criticism and theory, he is the author of the standard history, American Literary Criticism from the 1930s to the 1980s as well as Deconstructive Criticism and Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism (all three books published by Columbia UP), Postmodernism: Local Effects, Global Flows (SUNY Press), Theory Matters (Routledge), Living with Theory (Blackwell), and American Literary Criticism since the 1930s, 2nd edition (Routledge). Cracking open this book at the beginning of the school term, I knew I was in for something difficult but would ultimately change the way I looked at the universe. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

From Plato to Samuel Jonhson to Marx to Habermas to Derrida to Edward Said, if it pertains to the theory or criticism of literature, the arts, or culture, it is probably covered here in a somewhat contemporary presentation.Williams is Professor of English and of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Unfortunately because there is so much information the hard cover version is printed in tiny, tiny type on wafer-thin paper.