Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship including:
- Marxism
- Trauma Theory
- Ecocriticism
- Psychoanalysis
- Feminism
- Posthumanism
- Gender and Queer Theory
- Structuralism
- Narrative
- Postcolonialism
- Deconstruction
- Postmodernism
With three new essays, an updated introduction, further reading and a wealth of new dictionary entries, this text is an indispensible guide for all students of the theoretically informed arts, humanities and social sciences.