The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism 2e

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Hope my grades climb up a bit now as I finally have a chance of understanding the more obscure theory references! Also, each author is given an introduction that can help to understand their background as well as the theory they are known for.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I liked the course very much but it's a little hard for me to rate "how good" this Norton Anthology is; the excerpts were sometimes highly chopped up versions of much larger works. A prominent medievalist and feminist critic, Professor Finke is the author of Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film (Johns Hopkins UP), King Arthur and the Myth of History (University Press of Florida), Feminist Theory, Women's Writing (Cornell UP) and Women's Writing in English: The Middle Ages (Longman) and the editor of Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers (Cornell UP). A leading critic of postmodernism and social theories relating to literature, he is the author of Postmodernism and its Critics (Cornell UP), Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction (U of Minnesota P), Democracy’s Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Cornell UP), and American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time (UNC Press), and editor (with Craig Calhoun) of Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics (U of Minnesota P).

This anthology of critical writing ranges from Gorgias and Plato to Sigmund Freud and Mikhail Bakhtin.

Obviously, some excerpts are covered in more detail than others, as the book is only approximately 2700 pages long and therefore doesn't contain the full publications by each of these figures, merely snippets and excerpts. Compared with the Longman 20th century lit crit Anthology, this criticism anthology seems heavy on the white guys, doing little to dispel the "totalitarian tinkerbell" thing. This book has LOADS of critical and theoretical texts and is going to be invaluable as I move into my third and final year. While it could be argued that this would make for an even thicker and longer text, it is something that this volume certainly lacks. Really a book about thinking and sociocultural-historical-philosophical-artistic developments in all areas.

My end result is a list of books/theorists to explore and my 1st impressions of them jotted into a notebook or onto this table of contents. Offering 185 pieces (31 of them new) by 148 authors (18 of them new), The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism , Second Edition, is more comprehensive, and more varied, in its selection than any other anthology. A prominent medievalist and feminist critic, Professor Finke is the author of Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film (Johns Hopkins UP), King Arthur and the Myth of History (University Press of Florida), Feminist Theory, Women’s Writing (Cornell UP) and Women’s Writing in English: The Middle Ages (Longman) and the editor of Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers (Cornell UP).

A leading critic of postmodernism and social theories relating to literature, he is the author of Postmodernism and its Critics (Cornell UP), Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction (U of Minnesota P), Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Cornell UP), and American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time (UNC Press), and editor (with Craig Calhoun) of Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics (U of Minnesota P).

I find it especially helpful that they have alternative table of contents listing content according to schools and movements, genres and subjects. Goes beyond what you might expect in a textbook, serving as a very useful class resource or as the ultimate home library reference for the consumate home reader. So if you want to dabble into literary criticism out of free will or because you have to, I highly recommend this big friendly giant. Excellent selection of texts from Plato's Republic to Stuart Moulthrop's McLuhanist evaluation of the internet.

The gold standard anthology for anyone who wants to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Toss away any notions of easy reading and delve into the introductions of most of the main theoretical arguments beginning with Plato and rounding out with "Theory is dead" criticism.This anthology goes through the history of literary theory beginning with the ancient greeks and ending in the 1990s. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism is the gold standard for anyone who wishes to understand the development and current state of literary theory. I personally enjoyed the opportunity to experience some new (and in some cases improved) translations of familiar works, particularly a selection of wonderfully eloquent excerpt from Nietzsche's 'Birth of Tragedy' translated by Ronald Spiers which was a refreshing change from my Kauffmann and Hollingdale editions. Anyway, if you're looking for a book of philosophy that contains an adequate mix of canonical musts (Plato, Freud, etc.