How To Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies

Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies, Third Edition, presents an up-to-date, concise, and wide-ranging historicist survey of contemporary thinking in critical theory. The only book of its kind that thoroughly merges literary studies with cultural studies, this text provides a critical look at the major movements in literary studies since the 1930s, including those often omitted from other texts. It is also the only up-to-date survey of literary theory that devotes extensive treatment to Queer Theory and Postcolonial and Race Studies. How to Interpret Literature is ideal as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with an anthology of primary readings such as Robert Dale Parker's Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies.

Distinctive Features
* A conversational and engaging tone that speaks directly to today's students
* Wider coverage than any book of its kind
* A rich assortment of pedagogical features (charts, text boxes, photos, and suggestions for further reading)

• Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies
• The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
• MLA Handbook
• A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory
• Folk and Fairy Tales, 4th Edition
• The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
• English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s) (Refiguring English Studies)
• Literary Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)
• Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities
• Dracula