Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader

An excellent reader with concise introductory information on each theorist neatly cross-referenced to help situate the individual author in a framework of critical thinking.

I ordered this book for school. Very useful and taught me a lot about the different schools. Good read whether it's for school or personal.

I had to use this book for an upper-level Literary Criticism and Analysis class in undergrad. I tried doing some of the readings early on in the semester, then got bored.Towards the end of the semester, we had to write an essay using a number of essays from this text, to which I felt horrible for not doing many of the readings.As I went back through in preparation for my essay, I realized how great many of the essays were. Not only do they apply to great literature (or poor literature - many a Twilight reference was made in that class), but they also apply to life. In my graduate speech, I was able to incorporate some of what I learned from Foucault in this text.My teacher once made a joke about how if she was stuck on a desert island with only one book, she would pick this one because it could entertain her for hours. I laughed at how ridiculoous this statement was... until a few months later when I realized how accurate this statement was.The class is done, and I have the degree, but this is one of those books you just wanna hang on to!

A jumbled mess of pseudo-intellectual, warmed-over Marxist political claptrap, where race, gender and identity politics are elevated to near fetish. Advise study Shakespeare instead.

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The third edition of this excellent reader of modern literary theory seems to have deleted M.H. Abrams "The Deconstructive Angel" which the first editor, David Lodge, quite rightly claimed was "an irresistible short account and critique of Derridean deconstruction." It still is! So why delete it?

Its a Grt book with in-depth reflection of gist in introduction.I love this one.

Fabulous book! At first I was hesitant about buying it for my univeristy module on critical perspectives as I didn't really enjoy reading literary criticism , however this book has completely changed my opinion. I am now proud to say that I love Literary criticism !!! I will definitely be keeping this after univeristy.

Eye opening, sometimes eye-watering - as all the best books are.

I had to buy this book for university, and so far it has been great. It is a collection of essays written by theorists within their chosen fields and offers critiques and close readings of varied texts. The language is a little dense so I wouldn't recommend this for someone that is new to critical theory, but once you get past that, it is a very interesting read!If I didn't need this for a class then I probably would not have bought it.

Great, book needed for uni studies, good for those who are interested in creative writing as I needed this for my English Degree.