A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory

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This revised and expanded edition includes over 70 new terms and usages from this volatile and fast-changing field. A number of new entries come from the increasingly influential area of gender politics including queer theory and masculinity studies. New terms in this edition include: camp reading, closet criticism, deghettoization, femaling, faghag/fagstag character, lavender language, literary cross-dressing, literary outing, sexual code-switching, and transgender. In addition, many existing entries have been revised and the guide to further reading has been updated.

Jeremy Hawthorn is Professor of Modern British Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

The clean, supple writing highlights the difficulty and contested nature of terms, some of which assiduously elude lexical clarification. Doubly helpful because it both defines terms and advises on next-step reading, Hawthorn is more comprehensive than 'The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism', and complements M.H. Abrams' 'A Glossary of Literary Terms'. Choice I have used the 'Concise Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory' in my upper level literature courses at the University of Houston-Downtown for several years. My students find it invaluable and less confusing than other texts of the some type covers all the important literary terms with a thorough and engaging approach. Gillian Hanson, Amazon.com