- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: POCKET ESSENTIALS (8 Jun 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904048668
- ISBN-13: 978-1904048664
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 11.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 708,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A pocket guide to the key concepts of literary theory, explaining them in clear, accessible language. Cutting through the often confusing welter of peripheral writing on what can be an enormously unwieldy subject, David Carter covers the key thinkers, writers and theories in current lit-crit use, including Derrida; Baudrillard; Habermas; Postmodernism; Deconstruction; Formalism; Hermeneutics; and Reception Theory. An invaluable resource for students and readers.
About the Author
Dr. David Carter has taught at several UK universities and presently teaches at Yonsei University, Seoul. He has published on psychoanalysis, literature, drama, film history and applied linguistics, and is also a freelance journalist and translator. He is the author of the Pocket Essentials volume on Georges Simenon.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Literary Theory (Pocket Essentials),
By Literary Chic (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: LITERARY THEORY (Pocket Essentials) (Paperback)
This is a handy guide to current literary theory. Great as a first point of information. Good ideas for further information.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Counter-productive,
This review is from: Literary Theory - The Pocket Essential Guide (Kindle Edition)
The author is extremely vague about the constituent elements of various schools of literary theory, at times seeming to contradict himself in the descriptions of them. This has the effect of causing confusion rather than clarification for the reader. Someone looking for a 'way in' to literary theory would probably find Wikipedia more helpful than this book.
Furthermore, the book has not been properly edited / formatted for Kindle: words are hyphenated in the middle of a line of text for no apparent reason. This suggests the hard copy was scanned in without further proofing. Very amateurish. Furthermore, the written style is dry, and does nothing to convey a passion for the subject matter. I am extremely disappointed to have wasted my money on this purchase.
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