Fifty Key Literary Theorists [Paperback]

Covering over a century's worth of debate, thinking and writing about literature, this is a unique guide to the lives and works of fifty theorists who have left an indelible mark on literary studies.

Featuring theorists such as Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud and Edward Said, this accessible guide includes:

• a glossary of terms
• full cross-referencing for maximum ease of use
• authoritative guides to further reading on and by each theorist.

An essential resource for all students of literature, Fifty Key Literary Theoristsexplores the gamut of critical debate, from the New Critics to the Deconstructionists, and from post-colonialism to post-Marxism and more.

Preface  Baker, Houston A., Jr. (1943 )  Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895  1975)  Barthes, Roland (1915  1980)  Baudrillard, Jean (1929 )  Benjamin, Walter (1892  1940)  Bhabha, Homi (1949 )  Bloom, Harold (1930 )  Booth, Wayne C. (1921 )  Butler, Judith (1956 )  Cixous, H?l?ne (1937 )  de Beauvoir, Simone (1908  1986)  Deleuze, Gilles (1925  1995) [and Guattari, Pierre F?lix (1930 )]  de Man, Paul (1919  1983)  Derrida, Jacques (1930  2004)  Eagleton, Terry (1943 )  Empson, (Sir) William (1906  1984)  Fanon, Frantz Omar (1925  1961)  Felman, Shoshana (1942 )  Fish, Stanley (1938 )  Foucault, Michel (1920  1984)  Freud, Sigmund (1856  1939)  Frye, Northrop (1912  1991)  Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900  2003)  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (1950 )  Genette, G?rard (1930 )  Gilbert, Sandra Mortola (1936 ) [& Gubar, Susan David (1944 )]  Gilroy, Paul (1956 )  Greenblatt, Stephen (1943 )  Hal£#