Reviews for The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory

The average rating for The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-06-26 00:00:00 Ryan Arroyo This book covers various reading strategies in literary theory. They are: critical theory, cultural studies, deconstruction, ethnic studies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, marxist theory, narrative theory, new criticism, new historicism, postcolonial studies, postmodernism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, reader-response theory, structuralism, and formalism. If memory serves, Castle believes that among these reading strategies, two types of focus exist, namely the focus on the form of the literary work, as with, for example, structuralism, or the content of the work, as with, for example, marxist theory. Gregory Castle's book satisfactorily presented the range of reading strategies, but failed in some cases to explain the arguments of some of the figures who advanced a given strategy. Castle cannot bear too much blame, though, since, in my view, some of these theorists' arguments are incoherent. Anyway, this was a far more comprehensive and illuminating read than Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory: An Introduction.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-25 00:00:00 William Walker The Literary Theory from its very beginning to its most recent areas of research(Ex: gender, culture, and post-colonialism) . Recommended to those specialized in literature of any language.