The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory - Paperback

by Paul Wake (Editor), Simon Malpas (Editor)

Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship including:

• Marxism
• Trauma Theory
• Ecocriticism
• Psychoanalysis
• Feminism
• Posthumanism
• Gender and Queer Theory
• Structuralism
• Narrative
• Postcolonialism
• Deconstruction
• Postmodernism

With three new essays, an updated introduction, further reading and a wealth of new dictionary entries, this text is an indispensible guide for all students of the theoretically informed arts, humanities and social sciences.

Author Biography

Paul Wake is a lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University where he specialises in narrative and literary theory.

Simon Malpas is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University. His research interests include research interests include aesthetics, continental philosophy, literary theory and postmodernism, and he is the author of The Postmodern (Routledge, 2006).