The Smart Student's Guide to Modern Literary Theory 2nd edition

This 2nd edition of the highly successful The Smart Student's Guide to Modern Literary Theory has twenty-eight chapters covering the following theories: Marxism, Poststructuralism, New Criticism, Feminism, Deconstruction, Structuralism, Reader-Response, Archetypal, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, Genres, Russian Formalism, New Historicism, and Postcolonialism. If you need a jargon-free text that presents a comprehensive and comprehensible summary/analysis of modern literary theory, then this book will be of significant use to students, teachers, and philosophers who want to know why and how we read texts the way we do.