Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History

Love the book! Would have liked a little more contextual info on the theorist. It's good as long as you have experience in the topic.

For one of my classes I needed this book. I've already used other books previously so I thought I knew what I was getting into.Apparently not.The book reads as if someone sat with a thesaurus next to them and only used the most difficult words to sound smart. Even a theory like feminism became a confusing mess while reading the book, it stopped making sense because it was simply a mush of needlessly "high brow" words.I'd advise to get Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory by Peter Barry if you want a good overview of all the theories in a way that is at least readable.

AwesomeI bought 3 or 4 books before i bought this but belive m its most useful to me so i recommend to all literature studentsHere is contents1. Humanism to formalism2. Earlier twentieth century3. After second world war4. Era of post structuralism i later marxism, psychoanalysis, destructuralism5. Era of post structuralism ii post modernism, modern feminism, gender studies6. Later twentieth century new historisism, reader-response theory, and postcolonial criticism7. Cultural studies and film theory8. Contemporary directions: the return of the public intellectual

Very good explanations of difficult concepts and lucid summaries of the significant texts.

Great book delivered by Ebookstore in good condition. The seller was very responsive to my emails and gave prompt replies to all queries.

Really concise and crisp..clears concepts efficiently.