Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

<p>Now in a fully updated second edition <em>The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory</em> 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:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Marxism</li> <p> </p> <li>Trauma Theory</li> <p> </p> <li>Ecocriticism</li> <p> </p> <li>Psychoanalysis</li> <p> </p> <li>Feminism</li> <p> </p> <li>Posthumanism</li> <p> </p> <li>Gender and Queer Theory</li> <p> </p> <li>Structuralism</li> <p> </p> <li>Narrative</li> <p> </p> <li>Postcolonialism</li> <p> </p> <li>Deconstruction</li> <p> </p> <li>Postmodernism</li> </ul><p>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. </p>