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Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide

(Paperback, Revised edition)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide

Contributors:

By (Author) Professor Stuart Sim
Illustrated by Borin Van Loon

ISBN:

9781848310599

Publisher:

Icon Books

Imprint:

Icon Books

Publication Date:

8th July 2009

UK Publication Date:

2nd April 2009

Edition:

Revised edition

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

301.01

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

175

Weight:

168g

Description

The last few decades have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories, with deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists, postcolonialists, black critics and queer theorists, among a host of others, all vying for our attention. The world around us can look very different depending on the critical theory applied to it. This vast range of interpretations can leave one feeling confused and frustrated. Introducing Critical Theory provides a route through the tangled jungle of competing theories. It provides a context for these recent developments by situating them within the longer-term tradition of critical analysis going back to the rise of Marxism. The essential methods and objectives of each theoretical school are presented in an incisive and accessible manner. Special attention is paid to recurrent themes and concerns that have preoccupied a century of critical theoretical activity.

Author Bio

Stuart Sim is Professor of English Studies at the University of Sunderland. He is the author of Irony and Crisis and Lyotard and the Inhuman for Icon, and the Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Borin Van Loon has worked on numerous Introducing titles. He is a freelance illustrator, surrealist painter and collagist who produces the comic strip 'The Severed Head' for The Chap magazine.

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