Book description
Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly
acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to
modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and
critical theory
- Updated to feature over 40 new entries including pieces on
Alain Badiou, Ecocriticism, Comparative Racialization ,
Ordinary Language Philosophy and Criticism, and Graphic Narrative
- Includes reflective, broad-ranging articles from leading theorists
including Julia Kristeva, Stanley Cavell, and Simon Critchley
- Features a fully updated bibliography
- Wide-ranging content makes this an invaluable dictionary for
students of a diverse range of disciplines
Michael Payne
is Professor of English Emeritus at Bucknell University, USA. He is
general editor for
The Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory
(with Harold Scheizer, 12 vols., 1990-1995); author of
Reading
Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva
(1993) and
Reading Knowledge: An Introduction to Barthes, Foucault,
and Althusser
(1997); and editor of
Renaissance Literature: An Anthology
(with John Hunter, 2003), and
The Greenblatt Reader
(with Stephen Greenblatt, 2005) all published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Jessica Rae Barbera is a doctoral candidate in the English
Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Her areas of
specialization include Cultural and Critical Theory, British
Modernism, Psychoanalysis, Literatures of Medicine and Science,
Graphic Narratives, Illness Narratives, and Memoir. She is the
recipient of the 2009-2010 Andrew Mellon Fellowship, and is currently
at work on her dissertation, The Medicalization of Pain: The Human
in the 20th Century.
