Introducing Criticism at the 21st Century

Introducing Criticism at the 21st Century provides a wide ranging guide to current directions in literary criticism. Each of the authors explains 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 Web sites.The book is organized into five areas: Identities, Dialogues, Space and Place, Critical Voices, and Materiality and the Immaterial.