Learning for a Diverse World: Using Critical Theory to Read and Write About Literature

by Lois Tyson

Lois Tyson explains the basic concepts of six critical theories in popular academic use today-psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gay/lesbian, African-American, and post-colonial-and shows how they can be employed to interpret five short literary works in the book.

312 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2001

Reviews

[Dagpauwoogvlinder]

This would have been perfect, two years ago. It's an amazing introduction and a good recommendation for people that ask you "why would you ever care about those old books?"