The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism 2e

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Overall this book is excellent, and I would thoroughly recommend it to any student considering further education. She was also the translator of Jacques Derrida’s Dissemination (U of Chicago P) and Stéphane Mallarmé’s Divagations (Harvard UP/Belknap Press).

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. She was a leading figure in contemporary literary theory and the author of The Critical Difference: Essays in Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading (Johns Hopkins UP), A World of Difference (Johns Hopkins UP), The Wake of Deconstruction (Blackwell), The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychology, Race and Gender (Harvard UP), Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation (Harvard UP), and Persons and Things (Harvard UP). While it could be argued that this would make for an even thicker and longer text, it is something that this volume certainly lacks.

Belongs on the bookcase of every liberal arts, humanities, philosophy, literature or cultural studies enthusiast. However, as a particularly mobile student, I've lugged mine all over the place and as yet it has not been rendered damaged.

As an anthology it does a good job and is helpful for those who don't necessarily want to read it all. It's useful for someone, like me, who does not have time to read all of those philosophers and poets in-depth while taking two other classes and raising a child. This book is a good tool, and it will increase your sense of self every time you look at the thing on your shelf. However, a good selection from each is included, as is a quick preface for each individual containing a holistic overview of their biographical information and theoretical contributions to their respective fields. For autographs of eBook versions of The 13th Fellow: A Mystery in Provence or Bricktop's Paris, please go to Authorgraph.

This complement is backhanded but sincere: I'm glad that I know more about the theories and history: I'm glad I won't have to toil through this thing any more. Just one paper in the whole thing offered what was for me a compelling and new perspective, and that was Georges Poulet's "Phenomenology of Reading. 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. A book that has served me well for my English undergraduate degree; a great wealth and variety of philosophers' and theorists' seminal texts along with biographical information and explanation of major themes.