TY - BOOK AU - Barry,Peter TI - Beginning theory: an introduction to literary and cultural theory T2 - Beginnings SN - 1526121794 AV - PN81 .B367 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Criticism N1 - Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for well over two decades now; Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-354) and index; -- Introduction; -- Structuralism; -- Post-structuralism and deconstruction; -- Postmodernims; -- Psychoanalytic criticism; -- Feminist criticism; -- Queer theory; -- Marxist criticism; -- New historicism and cultural materialism; -- Postcolonial criticism; -- Stylistics; -- Narratology; -- Ecocriticism; -- Literary theory: a history in ten events; -- Theory after "theory"; -- Appendices: I. Edgar Allan Poe, "The oval portrait" ; 2. Dylan Thomas, "A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London" ; 3. William Cowper, "The castaway" ER -