Ross C. Murfin Bücher

The Bedford Glossary includes lengthy (and easy-to-follow) discussions of ideas including such biggies as cultural studies, deconstruction, feminist criticism, gender criticism, irony, Marxist criticism, the new historicism, poststructuralism, psychological criticism and psychoanalytic criticism, and reader-response criticism. More obscure terms-- anagnorisis , epithalamium , Menippean satire , kenning --receive shorter but equally careful treatment. This is a clear and comprehensive reference for academics, intellectuals, and anyone else who wants to hold forth intelligently on subjects literary and critical. --Jane Steinberg

With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest Conrad scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, selected criticism and a chronology of the author's life and times.