The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism 2e

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Minor personal quibble would be a lack of work from Jung (which was included in the previous edition, but sadly not this) or Goethe/Schopenhauer, yet selection is of course a personal taste. He has also published journalism in venues such as The Village Voice, Dissent, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

I liked the course very much but it's a little hard for me to rate "how good" this Norton Anthology is; the excerpts were sometimes highly chopped up versions of much larger works. I grabbed this highly regarded anthology hoping to discover or brush up on rewarding ways of thinking about literature. There's also a great sample of disability in literature that's presented in such an interesting way.It takes fragments of texts from the world's best theorists and sequences them according to content. Overall this book is excellent, and I would thoroughly recommend it to any student considering further education. For me, the largest weakness of this anthology is that aside from a very brief synopsis (that at times confuses more than elucidates) in the introductions, each essay or section(s) from a book is simply given with no further explanation. 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).

An exhaustive and briefly thorough reference on theory and criticism complete with bibliographies at the end of each section. It was where I first met the likes of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Freud, and scores of other cultural critics. As an anthology it does a good job and is helpful for those who don't necessarily want to read it all.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This anthology does a good job of providing salient works by a wide variety of authors on the various theories of literary criticism. The elephant in the room with this book is that the editors lean heavily toward the theory of Derrida and Stanley Fish. 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.

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism is the gold standard for anyone who wishes to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, the award-winning Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Offering 185 pieces (31 of them new) by 148 authors (18 of them new), The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism , Second Edition, is more comprehensive, and more varied, in its selection than any other anthology. g., "The Body," "Marxism," "Gay and Lesbian Criticism and Queer Theory") as well as by author and historical period. Anyway, if you're looking for a book of philosophy that contains an adequate mix of canonical musts (Plato, Freud, etc.