Literary Theory: The Complete Guide

Guides to terms have traditionally focused on literary forms (like poems and novels) and stylistic features (like sonnets and epistolary novels and metaphors), with some grammatical and linguistic features thrown in. This relative narrow compass has radically changed and now incorporates a wide range of philosophical and ideological, psychological and historical, cultural and racial and gender-based ideas. Students at school, college and university levels need all this critical apparatus to understand and interpret the literary and cultural material presented to them in the classroom, in personal investigation and in their general response to their environment.

Mary Klages offered an attractive...