Bücher der Reihe Longman Critical Readers

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 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".

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.

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.

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 essays of John Milton and locate areas of disagreement between positions.

This collection offers detailed readings of all Ben Jonson's major plays - "Volpone", "Epicene", "The Alchemist" and "Bartholomew Fair" - and the poems. It also provides insights into the court masques and the later plays which have been rediscovered in the late-20th century.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Postcolonial theory is a relatively new area in critical contemporary studies, having its foundations in the study of colonial discourse, neo-colonialism and Commonwealth literature. This reader contains 13 essays focusing on colonial discourse.

This collection of critical essays on William Blake covers a wide range to include Marxist, new historicist, feminist and psychological approaches. Between them, the essays explore the most significant areas and moments of his career as poet and also print maker, illustrator and visionary artist.

Provides examples of the literary criticism which has emerged from the conjunction between psychoanalysis and post-structuralism. The book defines concepts and methods by tracing the role the story of Oedipus has played in the development of and psychoanalytic theory and criticism.

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.

Narratology is a rapidly growing field in the humanities. This text provides an overview of, and introduction to, the subject, as well as assessing recent developments across a variety of disciplines. It stresses the mutual influences of narratology and deconstruction, feminism and media studies.

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 compilation of feminist criticism includes contributions from 12 authors who comment on such themes as sexual politics and male feminism, in literary texts.

This collection of essays on Andrew Marvell examines his poems including "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn"and looks at his writings about Cromwell and Republican Civil War culture.

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.

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.

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.

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 the essays selected and locates areas of disagreement between positions.

Explores the changes that have occurred in the interpretation of English Renaissance poetry in the 20 years up to 1998. The introduction looks at how critical approaches have transformed traditional accounts of literary history by analyzing, amongst other issues, the role of poetry in nationalism.

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.