The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory 2nd Edition

Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory 2nd Edition 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.