A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary TheoryFollowing the death of Raman Selden, Widdowson has substantially revised this text. New material has been added on key areas of literary theory, and there are now chapters on New Criticism, and Postmodernist and Postcolonialist theories. The chapter on feminist theories has been expanded. |
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Russian formalism | 31 |
Readeroriented theories | 46 |
Marxist theories | 70 |
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