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A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

5 reviews
Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson

University Press of Kentucky, 1993

great to return to again and again for insight
It is easy to fault any discussion of literary theory for being unclear or full of jargon. This book is clear in its explanations, and is as unbiased as it gets, given the subject and terminology. We should not confuse a subject full of obscurities and difficulties with the book that tries to explain them. This book is very basic and simple, (although it could seem difficult for a beginner), but ...

Practicing Theory and Reading Literature: An Introduction (Literary Theory)

2 reviews
Raman Selden

University Press of Kentucky, 1989

Graduate Level: Not for the Novice
In PRACTICING THEORY AND READING LITERATURE, Raman Selden improves on his earlier A READER'S GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE by delving more intimately into the byzantine pathways that mark current critical theory. In his newer effort, Selden assumes in the reader a working knowledge of literary criticism. His essays are more likely useful for the graduate student than the undergraduate in that ...

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 8: From Formalism to Poststructuralism

Cambridge University Press, 1995

Volume 8 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (the second to be published) deals with the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Semiotics, and Hermeneutics. Also incorporating a reflective chapter by Richard Rorty on Deconstruction, and culminating in accounts of the reader-oriented criticism of critics such as Stanley Fish, this is the first book to engage systematically with the ...

La Teoria Literaria Contemporanea
Raman Selden

Ariel Publications, 2004

The Poems of John Oldham
John Oldham

Oxford University Press, USA, 1987

A complete edition of Oldham's poems was last attempted in 1770, when the autographs in the Bodleian Library were unknown. The present edition furnishes a complete and critical text, bibliographically prepared, with full textual apparatus.