This third edition of Modern Criticism and Theory represents a
major expansion on its previous incarnations with some twenty five
new pieces or essays included. This expansion has two principal
purposes. Firstly, in keeping with the collection's aim to reflect
contemporary preoccupations, the reader has expanded forward to
include such newly emergent considerations as ecocriticism and
post-theory. Secondly, with the aim of presenting as broad an
account of modern theory as possible, the reader expands backwards
to to take in exemplary pieces by formative writers and thinkers of
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such as Marx,
Freud and Virginia Woolf.. This radical expansion of content is
prefaced by a wide-ranging introduction, which provides a rationale
for the collection and demonstrates how connections can be made
between competing theories and critical schools. The purpose of the
collection remains that of introducing the reader to the guiding
concepts of contemporary literary and cultural debate. It does so
by presenting substantial extracts from seminal thinkers and
surrounding them with the contextual materials necessary to a full
understanding. Each selection has a headnote, which gives
biographical details of the author and provides suggestions for
further reading, and footnotes that help explain difficult
references. The collection is ordered both historically and
thematically and readers are encouraged to draw for themselves
connections between essays and theories. Modern Criticism and
Theory has long been regarded as a necessary collection. Now
revised for the twenty first century it goes further and provides
students and the general reader with a wide-ranging survey of the
complex landscape of modern theory and a critical assessment of the
way we think - and live - in the world today.
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