The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism 2e

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Belongs on the bookcase of every liberal arts, humanities, philosophy, literature or cultural studies enthusiast.

This book has LOADS of critical and theoretical texts and is going to be invaluable as I move into my third and final year. So if you want to dabble into literary criticism out of free will or because you have to, I highly recommend this big friendly giant.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. If this hadn't been a good read, all these travels from home to parent's home and to uni with it in my backpack would have been for nothing. It is also a really helpful guide for those who study American literature and culture; it is written in a very organized way that will make it easy, even for freshmen, to understand the literary movements and the smooth transcedence from one movement to the next. It takes fragments of texts from the world's best theorists and sequences them according to content.

A prominent medievalist and feminist critic, Professor Finke is the author of Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film (Johns Hopkins UP), King Arthur and the Myth of History (University Press of Florida), Feminist Theory, Women's Writing (Cornell UP) and Women's Writing in English: The Middle Ages (Longman) and the editor of Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers (Cornell UP). Forty-eight NEW selections—concentrated mostly on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—make the book not only the best overview of the history of theory, but also a remarkably up-to-date portrait of the state of theory today. I loved the diversity in their choice of authors (still way to go but it is an important step towards more inclusivity). A foremost historian of contemporary literary criticism and theory, he is the author of the standard history, American Literary Criticism from the 1930s to the 1980s as well as Deconstructive Criticism and Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism (all three books published by Columbia UP), Postmodernism: Local Effects, Global Flows (SUNY Press), Theory Matters (Routledge), Living with Theory (Blackwell), and American Literary Criticism since the 1930s, 2nd edition (Routledge).That's not a major issue, however, in an otherwise spectacular anthology of a vital subject area for any student of literature. but it is less dunting than sitting in a cold library for hours on end looking for book and then finding out it is on loan.

Goes beyond what you might expect in a textbook, serving as a very useful class resource or as the ultimate home library reference for the consumate home reader. As an introduction to theory for students, however, it is a bit overwhelming and doesn't offer much in the way of engagement with texts that other lit crit anthologies, such as Shirley Staton's "Literary Theory in Praxis" do. The Norton isn't inventing this trend, which has been around for awhile; but it isn't resisting it either. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I was challenged by Hegel, Heideigger, Barthes and Derrida in ways I've never even considered thinking before - and love their minds (even though I think Hegel is kind of kooky in his teleology.

Anyway, if you're looking for a book of philosophy that contains an adequate mix of canonical musts (Plato, Freud, etc. The book itself is printed upon unfortunately cheap (bible-type) paper which does not highlight particularly well. Offering 185 pieces (31 of them new) by 148 authors (18 of them new), The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism , Second Edition, is more comprehensive, and more varied, in its selection than any other anthology. These (glaring) omissions make possible the inclusion of what is probably an excessive number of hip Europeans and North Americans who are products of the cultural studies movement but, though I love them, aren't nearly as important long-term as, say, Émile Zola, Oswald de Andrade or Octavio Paz. I believe I left it blank because I never read the entire thing(thank you, compassionate professors).