Beginning theory : an introduction to literary and cultural theory / Peter Barry.

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"