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# Beginning theory: An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

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Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics and the theories they represent, Beginning theory allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles and concepts have been grasped. The book has been updated for this edition and includes a new introduction, expanded chapters, and an overview of the subject ('Theory after "Theory"') which maps the arrival of new 'isms' since the second edition appeared in 2002 and the third edition in 2009.

Review: Great intro to “theory” or “critical theory” - Great intro to a notoriously confusing set of intellectual traditions. If you are hoping to eventually do critical scholarship in race or feminism, you will find this an excellent resource orienting you to the lay of the land.
Review: Great Introduction to Literary Theory - Purchased for a literary theory course beginning in Fall 2021. Based on the Introduction and Chapter 1, I’m excited for the course and believe this book is a great introduction for those who have not studied theory but have an interest.

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #73,279 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2 in Literary Theory #128 in Literary Criticism & Theory #173 in Literary Movements & Periods |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 511 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great intro to “theory” or “critical theory”
*by T***E on October 30, 2024*

Great intro to a notoriously confusing set of intellectual traditions. If you are hoping to eventually do critical scholarship in race or feminism, you will find this an excellent resource orienting you to the lay of the land.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Introduction to Literary Theory
*by E***E on July 14, 2021*

Purchased for a literary theory course beginning in Fall 2021. Based on the Introduction and Chapter 1, I’m excited for the course and believe this book is a great introduction for those who have not studied theory but have an interest.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What Happend to Literary Criticism While I was Making Other Plans
*by M***Y on July 8, 2021*

I received an MA in English and a JD in the 1970s. Since my retirement, I have been trying to find out what happened while I was busy outside academe. This textbook, written by a British professor for undergraduate students majoring in English, describes exactly how Theory has transformed a discipline once concerned primarily with aesthetics has become (in my words) a subspeciality of political science. I did not get much out of a literary criticism course in graduate school in 1973. Although the author is my contemporaty, I wish I had had a teacher as lucid as Peter Barry.

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