The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism 2e

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Cracking open this book at the beginning of the school term, I knew I was in for something difficult but would ultimately change the way I looked at the universe. Offering 191 pieces by 157 authors, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Third Edition, is more comprehensive and more varied in its selection than any other anthology. International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions.

This book has most things covered (I haven't sat and read through it yet, but skimming through I have found 90% of lecture references) and means no more cowering behind a mountain of books.Denean Sharpley-Whiting, the award-winning Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. The post-modernists kept my interest and have sparked my continued desire to follow trends in architecture as a mode of revealing new modes of living and thinking, but my favourite . The first edition was published in 2001, with a second edition published in 2010 and a third in 2018.

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. Toss away any notions of easy reading and delve into the introductions of most of the main theoretical arguments beginning with Plato and rounding out with "Theory is dead" criticism. She was also the translator of Jacques Derrida’s Dissemination (U of Chicago P) and Stéphane Mallarmé’s Divagations (Harvard UP/Belknap Press). I especially enjoyed the psychoanalytic theorists (especially Jacques Lacan), felt as though my discarded feelings regarding women's rights and responsibilities were revived with feminist critique (espcially my beloved Simone de Beauvoir -- I actually cried reading the Second Sex). However, with the lighter colours such as orange and yellow it is more than possible to highlight on any page.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. Really a book about thinking and sociocultural-historical-philosophical-artistic developments in all areas. An exhaustive and briefly thorough reference on theory and criticism complete with bibliographies at the end of each section. 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.

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.I find it especially helpful that they have alternative table of contents listing content according to schools and movements, genres and subjects.

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism is the gold standard for anyone who wishes to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Compared with the Longman 20th century lit crit Anthology, this criticism anthology seems heavy on the white guys, doing little to dispel the "totalitarian tinkerbell" thing. I grabbed this highly regarded anthology hoping to discover or brush up on rewarding ways of thinking about literature. Topics include (at random) 'The Defence and Enrichment of the French Language', 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas', 'Culture and Anarchy', 'The Defence of Poesy', 'The Archetypes of Literature', 'The Signification of the Phallus', 'Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness', 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema', 'A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Social Feminism in the 1980s' to name but a few.My end result is a list of books/theorists to explore and my 1st impressions of them jotted into a notebook or onto this table of contents.