David H Richter - A Companion to Literary Theory

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EDITED BY

DAVID H. RICHTER

This edition first published 2018
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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Richter, David H., 1945 editor.
Title: A Companion to literary theory / edited by David H. Richter.
Description: First edition. | Hoboken : Wiley, 2018. | Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017026962 (print) | LCCN 2017038425 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118958735 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118958759 (epub) | ISBN 9781118958674 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Literature, ModernHistory and criticismTheory, etc. | LiteraturePhilosophy. | Criticism. | BISAC: LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Classification: LCC PN81 (ebook) | LCC PN81 .R55 2018 (print) | DDC 801/.95 23
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Siraj Ahmed is Associate Professor in the PhD program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and in English and Comparative Literature at Lehman College. He is author of Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities (2018) and The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India (2012), as well as essays in Critical Inquiry, Representations, Cultural Critique, Postcolonial Studies, and The Postcolonial Enlightenment: EighteenthCentury Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory (2009).

Michelle Balaev is Visiting Assistant Professor at Flinders University. Her research and teaching address topics in twentiethcentury American literature, psychology and literature, ecocriticism, and imperialism. Her publications have appeared in peerreviewed journals such as PMLA, American Literature, ISLE, Mosaic, Studies in the Humanities, and Composition Studies. Her books include The Nature of Trauma in American Novels (2012) and Contemporary Approaches to Literary Trauma Theory (2014).

Diana Brydon, FRSC, Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies and Distinguished Professor in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba, is currently investigating transnational literacies, new postcolonialisms, and decolonizing imaginaries in global contexts. She has published on postcolonial cultural and literary studies and how communities are adjusting to globalizing processes. In addition to books on authors Timothy Findley and Christina Stead, she has published the coauthored