The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Vincent B. Leitch (PDF)

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More comprehensive and up-to-date than ever before The gold standard anthology for anyone who wants to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Offering 191 pieces by 157 authors, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Third Edition, is more comprehensive and more varied in its selection than any other anthology. Forty-eight NEW selections―concentrated mostly on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries―make the book not only the best overview of the history of theory, but also a remarkably up-to-date portrait of the state of theory today.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Vincent B. Leitch is a George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma where he holds the Paul and Carol Daube Sutton Chair in English. A foremost historian of contemporary literary criticism and theory, he is the author of the standard history, American Literary Criticism from the 1930s to the 1980s as well as Deconstructive Criticism and Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism (all three books published by Columbia UP), Postmodernism: Local Effects, Global Flows (SUNY Press), Theory Matters (Routledge), Living with Theory (Blackwell), and American Literary Criticism since the 1930s, 2nd edition (Routledge).William E. Cain is the Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College. A scholar of American literature and American literary criticism, Professor Cain is the author of The Crisis in Criticism: Theory, Literature, and Reform in English Studies (Johns Hopkins UP), F. O. Matthiessen and the Politics of Criticism (U of Wisconsin Press), and Literary Criticism, 1900-1950: The Cambridge History of American Literature (Cambridge UP) as well as the editor or co-editor of several college textbooks, including An Introduction to Literature (Longman), American Literature (Penguin), The Little, Brown Reader (Longman), and Literature for Composition (Longman).Laurie A. Finke is Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Kenyon College. 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).John McGowan is the Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 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).T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Professor of French, Professor and Director of African American and Diaspora Studies, and Director of the W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies at Vanderbilt University. A leading scholar in Black European Studies and comparative Black Diaspora literatures and cultures and theories of race and feminism, she is the author of Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women (NYU Press), Negritude Women (U of Minnesota Press), Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French (Duke UP), and Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms (Rowman & Littlefield), and she has edited or co-edited five books, including The Speech: Race and Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” (Bloomsbury).

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This book is life changing for those of us brought up in the ‘gee whiz/aw shucks’ school of criticism that in hindsight hid a lack of serious thought and really modest intellects. I read it five times. The fourth time underlining and the fifth time commenting, responding, discussing, and on and on. It’s a field day for hard workers.

⭐I regularly use this anthology in a graduate survey of literary and cultural theory. I recommend it.Regarding packaging: This is a heavy book. It came swathed in plastic, in a box somewhat larger than the book itself. It shifted around a lot, with the result that the corners of the cover were slightly damaged. It would be better to surround the book with plastic pillows or other filler.

⭐For being used, this book was in fantastic condition! (Almost like whoever had it last MIGHT not have used it much, but hey, I’m not complaining…) Shipped fast and all that. Appreciated spending much less on a textbook than I would have had to for my ENGL 301 for sure.

⭐This book is an incredible compendium of critical theory. I will be using it for the rest of my career in English literature.

⭐While the content of this book is fantastic, this book is very difficult for anyone with joint issues to use (I have lupus and at 4.9 lbs – I cannot physically hold the book and transporting it is exhausting). For people with vision issues, the super small print makes it incredibly hard to read. this could all be solved with an e-copy. Unfortunately, the publisher has not created an e-version at this point. It does say on the publisher’s website a disable copy is available but only to authorized reps – which I still haven’t figure out who that is (my University does not have access, so I’ll be contacting Disability Services at my University next).

⭐Very thorough. Probably the heaviest book I own, intellectually and physically haha

⭐Extremely useful for advanced and graduate students of literature. I wish I had bought it and read the introduction much earlier.

⭐Came undamaged, clean and new.

⭐It’s a beast of a book with those incredibly thin pages. The chronological contents list is a pain but it’s a required text for university and it’s great to have all that reading in one place.

⭐A must have publication for English Literature students….go my girl.

⭐A diverse collection but some relevant essays like Gramsci’s ‘Hegemony’ is missing.

⭐Must read book

⭐Still expensive but cheaper than what my school was asking.

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