A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary TheoryUnsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature. |
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| Title | A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory |
| Author | Raman Selden |
| Contributor | Peter Widdowson |
| Publisher | University Press of Kentucky, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0813108160, 9780813108162 |
| Length | 244 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Reference |
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