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A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature

Greatly enlarged and updated, the third edition of this highly successful survey of literary theory and applied criticism offers substantical new chapters on feminist approaches and on structuralism, post-structuralism and deconstruction, and new sections on hermeneutics, dialogics, Marxist criticism, the new historicism, and reader response. The editors have also substantially revised and expanded all bibliographical references, both within individual chapters and in the list of supplementary readings.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 448 pages

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