What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what "is" literature...and does it matter? These are the kinds of questions Jonathan Culler addresses, and he illuminates a subject often perceived as impenetrable. In addition to outlining the ideas behind various schools (including deconstruction, semiotics, structuralism, and post-colonialism), he offers insights into theories about the nature of language, meaning, interpretation, poetics, rhetoric, narrative, and readership.
- ISBN10 1402768753
- ISBN13 9781402768750
- Publish Date 1 October 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Sterling Publishing Co Inc
- Imprint Sterling
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 196
- Language English