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The concepts of ''Modernism'' and ''Postmodernism'' constitute the single most dominant issue of twentieth-century literature and culture and are the cause of much debate. In this influential volume, Peter Brooker presents some of the key viewpoints from a variety of major critics and sets these additionally alongside challenging arguments from Third World, Black and Feminist perspectives. His excellent Introduction and detailed headnotes for each section and essay provide an indispensable guide to interpreting the many different opinions, and prove to be valuable contributions in their own right.

A collection of documents relating to the literary theme of tragedy, illustrating the foundations of contemporary thinking on the subject and reflecting the continuing debate on the subject. In the LONGMAN CRITICAL READER series.

Following from Volume 1, this text includes critical approaches to the 18th-century novel, discussing topics such as the Gothic novel, the rise in the number of women novelists in the later 18th century, the class conflicts of writers like Smollett, and the effects of the French Revolution.

This collection of essays on the English novel in the 18th-century reflects the state of transatlantic criticism on the 18th-century novel and outlines developments in critical trends since the 1970s. Arguments focus on the "origins" of the novel.

This anthology explores all the major critical approaches to Dickens of the 1970s-1990s, including psychoanalytic, deconstructive, discourse-analytic, feminist and Marxist, enabling the reader to compare and contrast different treatments of particular Dickens novels.

This study is divided into three parts: the classical tradition; Althusser and after; and modern debates. It includes chapters on class consciousness, ideology and utopia, and the epistemology of sociology, looking at the work of Georg Lukas, Karl Mannheim and Lucien Goldman respectively.

This text consists of various contributions to such areas of study as: interaction between text and reader; reader-response criticism; toward a feminist theory of reading; reading as poaching; and "Wilde's Hard Labour and the Birth of Gay Reading".

Brings together late-20th-century work on Byron by British and American scholars and critics, guiding undergraduate students and sixth-form pupils through the different ways in which new literary theory has enriched readings of Byron's work.

Provides a critical account of the life and works of Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe is studied as a man who staged the birth of the modern author, and for his representations of sexuality and homosexuality. This text portrays a wide range of critical approaches and provides theoretical grounding.

Part of the "Longman Critical Readers" series, this text represents a compilation of theoretical essays written on the work of Virginia Woolf, which aims to explore the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in the essays and locate areas of disagreement between positions.

This volume combines the most interesting and stimulating recent critical thinking about Sterne and represents recent theoretical and critical debates surrounding Sterne's writing.

The outlines of contemporary critical theory are now often taught as a standard feature of a degree in literary studies. This text aims to explore the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in the essays selected and locates areas of disagreement between positions.

This collection brings together critical writing which examines questions of identity and community in the fiction of contemporary American women writers: among them Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisnernos.

Modern developments in critical theory and the emergence of new media have put in question traditional ways of evaluating genres. This anthology charts these developments drawing on the work of Bakhtin, Gennette and Derrida.

The fin de siecle, the period 1880-1914, long associated with decadence and with the literary movements of aestheticism and symbolism, has received renewed critical interest recently. This book introduces fin de siecle cultural studies and commentates on aspects of current critical debate.

Provides a collection of theoretical and literary essays on Swift's work. The text places an emphasis on his Anglo-Irishness, which, it argues, is a key area in understanding his life and works. Reference is also made to Swift's gender relations and his female imitators.

A critical anthology of some important studies by those critics who have influenced textual studies of Shakespeare's history plays. These essays reclaim the plays for feminism and give insights into the invention of Britain itself.

Steve Ellis shows how the Canterbury Tales has been radically opened up by modern critical theory. The book provides an introduction to a wide range of theoretical approaches to Chaucer, including the feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and anthropological schools.

This work demonstrates the diversity and the literary and historical significance of early women's writing. The author applies feminist critical approaches to the central issues raised by early women's writing and considers the interaction of gender with class and race in the period.

This collection of major critical readings presents the best of contemprary literary theory and criticism on Joseph Conrad. The chapters cover different critical approaches, each containing two or three critical excerpts which offer contrasting and complementary accounts of the fiction.

The outlines of contemporary critical theory are now often taught as a standard feature of a degree in literary studies. This text aims to explore the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in the essays selected and locates areas of disagreement between positions.

This is a collection of recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser. The essays cover the whole of Spenser's work, from such early literary experiments as "The Shepeardes Calendar" to his unfinished crowning work "The Faerie Queene". A review of critical responses to Spenser is also included.

This text covers the most significant areas of recent work on Tennyson, linking feminist and gender studies with deconstrcutive, psychoanalytic and linguistic attention. The essays in the book reflect a range of modes of critical inquiry compelling in themselves.

This text contains sections covering the definition of metafiction, historiographic metafiction and the writer and critic. It includes selected readings of metafiction.

Patricia Ingham's reader is designed to accompany study of the works of the Bronte sisters. It shows how their writings engage with the major issues that dominate 20th century theoretical work.

This judicious selection of key works by Stephen Heath, Fredrick Jameson, Laura Mulvey, Mary Ann Doanne and others, represents some of the most important contemporary writing about film.

The outlines of contemporary critical theory are now often taught as a standard feature of a degree in literary studies. This text aims to explore the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in selected poems of Percy Shelley and locate areas of disagreement between positions.

Covering the work of Samuel Beckett, this text brings together a collection of writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s. It covers the whole range of his creative work.