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41. Irony

    By Claire Colebrook

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    In this handy volume, Claire Colebrook offers an overview of the history and structure of irony, from Socrates to the present.Students will welcome this clear, concise guide, which:*traces the use of the concept through history, from Greek times to the Romantic period and on to the postmodern era*...

    Published September 17th 2003 by Routledge
42. Dramatic Monologue

    By Glennis Byron

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    The dramatic monologue is traditionally associated with Victorian poets such as Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and is generally considered to have disappeared with the onset of modernism in the twentieth century. Glennis Byron unravels its history and argues that, contrary to belief, the...

    Published July 23rd 2003 by Routledge
43. Realism

    By Pam Morris

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    Coming to prominence with the nineteenth-century novel, literary realism has most often been associated with the insistence that art cannot turn away from the more sordid and harsh aspects of human existence. However, because realism is unavoidably tied up with the gnarly concept of 'reality' and '...

    Published July 9th 2003 by Routledge
44. Ideology

    2nd Edition

    By David Hawkes

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    This new revised edition includes an updated bibliography, a new glossary and index and fresh suggestions for further reading, as well as a discussion of ideology after September 11.Ideology:*traces the history of the term and the debates which surround it, from Machiavelli to the present day*asks...

    Published May 28th 2003 by Routledge
45. Historicism

    2nd Edition

    By Paul Hamilton

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. This edition has been fully revised and includes a new glossary of critical terms, fully updated bibliography, clear suggestions for additional reading, as well as new discussion of Historicism's relation to the...

    Published May 21st 2003 by Routledge
46. Colonialism/Postcolonialism

    By Ania Loomba

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. Ania Loomba deftly introduces and examines: key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism the relationship of colonial discourse to...

    Published May 31st 2002 by Routledge
47. Romanticism

    By Aidan Day

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    Aidan Day considers the history and usage of the term Romanticism, and the changing views and debates which surround it. He traces its history through nineteenth and twentieth-century readings, incorporating contemporary debates such as feminism, post-structuralism and new historicism. Day places...

    Published January 3rd 2002 by Routledge
48. Ideology

    By David Hawkes

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    Any literary student who is new to the terminology and uses of critical terms will welcome David Hawkes' Ideology, a comprehensive and concise overview. In refreshingly clear and jargon-free prose, Hawkes: Considers the myriad definitions and meanings of ideology Traces the history of the term and...

    Published January 3rd 2002 by Routledge
49. Interdisciplinarity

    By Joe Moran

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    This volume examines the way in which we organize knowledge into disciplines, then reorganize it into new configurations when the existing disciplines have come to seem irrelevant or exclusory. Joe Moran traces the history and use of the term interdisciplinarity and tackles such vital topics as:*...

    Published October 24th 2001 by Routledge
50. Narrative

    By Paul Cobley

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    This comprehensive, accessible guidebook traces the ways in which human beings have used narrative to make sense of time, space and identity over the centuries. Particular attention is given to:* early narrative, from Hellenic and Hebraic* the rise of the novel* realist representation* imperialism...

    Published September 19th 2001 by Routledge