The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

Theory, history, context / Huw Jones -- Structuralism and semiotics / Kate McGowan -- Narrative and narratology / Paul Wake -- Marxism / Glyn Daly -- Poststructuralism / Catherine Belsey -- Historicism / Simon Malpas -- Psychoanalytic criticism / Rob Lapsley -- Deconstruction / Andrew Benjamin -- Feminism / Susan Hekman -- Gender and queer theory / Donald E. Hall -- Postmodernism / Linda Hutcheon -- Race and postcoloniality / Apollo Amoko -- Posthumanism / Ivan Callus and Stefan Herbrechter -- Green theory / Laurence Coupe -- Trauma studies / Richard Crownshaw.;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, and much more.