Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship including:
Marxism
Trauma Theory
Ecocriticism
Psychoanalysis
Feminism
Posthumanism
Gender and Queer Theory
Structuralism
Narrative
Postcolonialism
Deconstruction
Postmodernism
With three new essays, an updated introduction, further reading and a wealth of new dictionary entries, this text is an indispensible guide for all students of the theoretically informed arts, humanities and social sciences.
Marxism
Trauma Theory
Ecocriticism
Psychoanalysis
Feminism
Posthumanism
Gender and Queer Theory
Structuralism
Narrative
Postcolonialism
Deconstruction
Postmodernism
With three new essays, an updated introduction, further reading and a wealth of new dictionary entries, this text is an indispensible guide for all students of the theoretically informed arts, humanities and social sciences.