Literary Theory: An Anthology

This massive anthology text book of readings in twentieth‐century European, with some American, literary criticism, is directed at the large American undergraduate and graduate market. The compilers, Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, both teach American literature in colleges on the East Coast of the United States. The cover illustration is of an ageing anatomist inspecting what is taken to be a cutting device prior to dissecting a not unattractive supine female body with flowing neo‐Raphaelite hair. Superimposed across the image are the words in block capitals: “No Radio”. In their Preface Rivkin and Ryan explain that “The words ‘No Radio’...