An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. A breath of fresh air in a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this book will open the reader's eyes to the exhilarating possibilities of reading and studying literature.

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Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He publishes on Romantic and twentieth-century literature and on literary theory. His books include This Thing Called Literature (2015, co-authored with Nicholas Royle), Suicide Century: Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace (2017), Ignorance: Literature and Agnoiology (2009) and The Author (2005).

Nicholas Royle is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Sussex. He is author of many critical books, including Veering: A Theory of Literature (2011) and How to Read Shakespeare (2014), as well as novels such as An English Guide to Birdwatching (2017) and memoirs, most recently David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine (2023).

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Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. A breath of fresh air in a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this book will open the reader's eyes to the exhilarating possibilities of reading and studying literature.

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Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. A breath of fresh air in a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this book will open the reader's eyes to the exhilarating possibilities of reading and studying literature.

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Alternative Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

How to Read This Book

Trigger Warning and Spoiler Alert

1. The Beginning

2. Literature

3. Readers and Reading

4. The Author

5. The Text and the World

6. The Uncanny

7. Monuments

8. Narrative

9. Character

10. Voice

11. Figures and Tropes

12. Creative Writing

13. Feelings

14. Loss

15. Laughter

16. The Tragic

17. Wounds

18. History

19. Me

20. Eco

21. Animals

22. Human

23. Ghosts

24. Body

25. Moving Pictures

26. Sexual Difference

27. God

28. Ideology

29. Love

30. Desire

31. Queer

32. Suspense

33. Racial Difference

34. Migrant

35. The Colony

36. Mutant

37. The Performative

38. Secrets

39. Pleasure

40. War

41. The End Glossary

A Note on Texts Used

Literary Works Discussed

Bibliography of Critical and Theoretical Works

Index