The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory

This attractively packaged Companion tackles the challenge of introducing students and readers to critical theory by providing introductory essays in the first half of the book and using the second half as a type of mini dictionary. This approach sets the book apart from other comparable texts such as Beginning Theory (Barry, 2002) and A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (Selden and Widdowson, 2005). The title of this Routledge guide suggests it is aimed at a wider audience than these titles and indeed the introduction indicates that critical theory plays an important part in the...