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9. Critical Literature Consulted and Recommended

For critical literature on literary and cultural theory, the genres, the critical approaches and interpretive practice, you can consult (further to the literature recommended in the first part):

 

Adams, Hazard – Leroy, Jones (eds.) Critical Theory Since Plato. Wadsworth Publishing, 2004.

 

Bertens, Johannes W. Literary Theory: The Basics. Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007.

 

Guerin , Wilfred – Labor, Earle (eds.) A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. (6th edition)

 

Lane, Richard J. (ed.) Global Literary Theory: An Anthology. Routledge, 2013.

 

Pope, Rob. The English Studies Book. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. pp. 67-154: “Theoretical Positions and Critical Approaches.”

 

Scholes, R., Klaus, C. H., Comley, N. R. (eds.) Elements of Literature. New York and Oxford: University Press, 1984.

 

Selden, Raman - Peter Widdowson - Peter Brooker. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. Pearson Education Limited, 2005.

 

Selden, Raman. Practising Theory and Reading Literature. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.

 

Wolfreys, Julian - Ruth Robbins - Kenneth Womack. Key Concepts in Literary Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.