Beginning theory : an introduction to literary and cultural theory /
By: Barry, Peter
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BookSeries: Beginnings (Manchester, England)Publisher: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xii, 338 p. ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780719079276; 0719079276Other title: Introduction to literary and cultural theory.Subject(s): Criticism | Literature -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 801.95
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"Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade now. This new and expanded third edition continues to offer students and readers the best one-volume introduction to the field." "The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics and the theories they represent, Peter Barry allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles and concepts have been grasped."--BOOK JACKET.
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| 801 FR AN Anatomy of criticism : four essays / | 801 LA PH The philosophy of literature / | 801.95 AD HO How to read a book / | 801.95 BA BE Beginning theory : an introduction to literary and cultural theory / | 801.953 BO FI Fiction and emotion : a study in aesthetics and the philosophy of mind / | 808.066 MO PU Publish or perish : | 808.0665 AL MA Mastering academic writing in the sciences : |
Previous ed.: 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-330) and index.
"Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade now. This new and expanded third edition continues to offer students and readers the best one-volume introduction to the field." "The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics and the theories they represent, Peter Barry allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles and concepts have been grasped."--BOOK JACKET.