Literary Theory: An Anthology

6 best books like Literary Theory: An Anthology (Julie Rivkin): The Story of an Hour, Hills Like White Elephants, A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction

The Story of an Hour

Author

Kate Chopin

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of women. From the famous proto-feminist tale "The Story of an Hour" to the subtly sexy "A Respectable Woman," Chopin sheds light on the frustrations, desires, and dreams of her own era and their reverberations...

Hills Like White Elephants

Author

Ernest Hemingway

A couple. A bar. A health condition of some sort. And a small research done by a reader to understand what was going on, exactly. Mere descriptions of actions and dialogue were not enough. But the reader doesn't blame the author for her lack of perception. A detached author that seems to barely know them....

A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature

Author	Wilfred L. Guerin
ISBN	0195160177

Greatly enlarged and updated, the third edition of this highly successful survey of literary theory and applied criticism offers substantical new chapters on feminist approaches and on structuralism, post-structuralism and deconstruction, and new sections on hermeneutics, dialogics, Marxist...

Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions

Author	Fredric Jameson
ISBN	1844675386

In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful?

Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson’s most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of...

Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide

Author	Lois Tyson
ISBN	0415974100

Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor...

How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction

Author	Anne Curzan
ISBN	0321121880

This accessible introduction to the structure of English, general theories in linguistics, and important issues in sociolinguistics, is the first text written specifically for English and Education majors. This engaging introductory language/linguistics textbook provides more extensive...