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11. Autobiography

    2nd Edition

    By Linda Anderson

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    If every writer necessarily draws on their own life, is any writing outside the realm of ‘autobiography’? The new edition of this classic guide is fully updated to include: developments in autobiographical criticism, highlighting major theoretical issues and concepts different forms of the...

    Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
12. Interdisciplinarity

    2nd Edition

    By Joe Moran

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    Interdisciplinarity covers one of the most important changes in attitude and methodology in the history of the university. Taking the study of English as its main example, this fully updated second edition examines the ways in which we have organized knowledge into disciplines, and are now...

    Published February 3rd 2010 by Routledge
13. The Historical Novel

    By Jerome de Groot

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible introduction to the genre and critical debates that...

    Published September 23rd 2009 by Routledge
14. Allegory

    By Jeremy Tambling

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century. In this useful guide, Jeremy Tambling: presents a concise history of allegory, providing...

    Published August 18th 2009 by Routledge
15. Lyric

    By Scott Brewster

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    The term ‘lyric’ has evolved, been revised, redefined and contested over the centuries. In this fascinating introduction, Scott Brewster: traces the history of the term from its classical origins through the early modern, Romantic and Victorian periods and up to the twenty-first century...

    Published May 31st 2009 by Routledge
16. Genders

    2nd Edition

    By David Glover, Cora Kaplan

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to...

    Published December 10th 2008 by Routledge
17. Myth

    2nd Edition

    By Laurence Coupe

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    Laurence Coupe offers students a comprehensive overview of the development of myth, showing how mythic themes, structures and symbols persist in literature and entertainment today. This introductory volume: illustrates the relation between myth, culture and literature with discussions of poetry,...

    Published December 8th 2008 by Routledge
18. Memory

    By Anne Whitehead

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    The concept of ‘memory’ has given rise to some of the most exciting new directions in contemporary theory. In this much-needed guide to a burgeoning field of a study, Anne Whitehead: presents a history of the concept of ‘memory’ and its uses, encompassing both memory as activity and the nature...

    Published September 4th 2008 by Routledge
19. Humanism

    2nd Edition

    By Tony Davies, Tony Davies

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    Definitions of humanism have evolved throughout the centuries as the term has been adopted for a variety of purposes – literary, cultural and political – and reactions against humanism have contributed to movements such as postmodernism and anti-humanism. Tony Davies offers a clear...

    Published March 9th 2008 by Routledge
20. Modernism

    2nd Edition

    By Peter Childs

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    The modernist movement radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and its effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution. In this fully updated and revised...

    Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge