Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century (Wolfreys Julian)(Paperback)

Provides a wide-ranging guide to current directions in literary criticism GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748695294', 'ISBN:9780748695317']); This new and revised edition provides 14 chapters introducing new modes of 'hybrid' criticism which have emerged in the twenty-first century. The chapters provide thought-provoking overviews of critical thinking at the cutting edge. Each of the authors explains in lucid terms the various contours of their discourses while bringing these into sharp relief for the student reader through readings of canonical novels, poems, plays, films and websites. The book is organised into five areas of critical concern - The Poetics and Politics of Identity; Critical Voices: Ethical Questions; Materialities, Immaterialities, (A)materialities, Realities; Space, Place & Memory. These orientations reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary
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