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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812107203321

Titolo

The Routledge companion to critical and cultural theory / / edited by Simon Malpas and Paul Wake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-134-12334-5

0-203-52079-3

0-415-66830-1

1-134-12327-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xv, 342 p

Collana

Routledge companion series

Altri autori (Persone)

MalpasSimon

WakePaul

Disciplina

801/.95

100

Soggetti

Criticism

Criticism (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: New York : Routledge, 2006, under title The Routledge companion to critical theory.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Critical theory : introductory essays -- pt. 2. Names and terms.

Sommario/riassunto

Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship including:  Marxism  Trauma Theory  Ecocriticism  Psychoanalysis  Feminism  Posthumanism  Gender and Queer Theory  Structuralism  Narrative  Postcolonialism  Deconstruction  Postmodernism With three new essays, an updated introduction, further reading and a wealth of new dictionary entries, this text is an indispensible guide for all students of the theoretically informed arts, humanities and social sciences.