by Raman Selden (Author), Peter Widdowson (Author)

Unsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature.

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The liveliest and most readable and reliable guide to contemporary literary theory, Raman Selden's classic text is now available in an updated Third Edition, substantially revised to bring you into the vanguard of current theory.