Description
Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Beginning’ and concluding with ‘The End’, chapters range from the familiar, such as ‘Character’, ‘Narrative’ and ‘The Author’, to the more unusual, such as ‘Secrets’, ‘Pleasure’ and ‘Ghosts’. Now in its sixth 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, while Chaucer, Monty Python and Hilary Mantel are all invoked in a discussion of literature and laughter.
The sixth edition has been revised and updated throughout. In addition, four new chapters – ‘Literature’, ‘Loss’, ‘Human’ and ‘Migrant’ – engage with exciting recent developments in literary studies. As well as fully up-to-date further reading sections at the end of each chapter, the book contains a comprehensive bibliography and an invaluable glossary of key literary terms.
A breath of fresh air in a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this book will open the reader’s eyes to the exhilarating possibilities of reading and studying literature.
Table of Contents
Contents
Alternative Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
How to Read This Book
Trigger Warning and Spoiler Alert
- The Beginning
- Literature
- Readers and Reading
- The Author
- The Text and the World
- The Uncanny
- Monuments
- Narrative
- Character
- Voice
- Figures and Tropes
- Creative Writing
- Feelings
- Loss
- Laughter
- The Tragic
- Wounds
- History
- Me
- Eco
- Animals
- Human
- Ghosts
- Body
- Moving Pictures
- Sexual Difference
- God
- Ideology
- Love
- Desire
- Queer
- Suspense
- Racial Difference
- Migrant
- The Colony
- Mutant
- The Performative
- Secrets
- Pleasure
- War
- The End
Glossary
A Note on Texts Used
Literary Works Discussed
Bibliography of Critical and Theoretical Works
Index
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