The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism 2e

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It takes fragments of texts from the world's best theorists and sequences them according to content.

It was necessary to break the cardinal rule against defacing texts, since I need little notes to jog my memory and make chains of connection while I'm reading.

Topics include (at random) 'The Defence and Enrichment of the French Language', 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas', 'Culture and Anarchy', 'The Defence of Poesy', 'The Archetypes of Literature', 'The Signification of the Phallus', 'Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness', 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema', 'A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Social Feminism in the 1980s' to name but a few. I find it especially helpful that they have alternative table of contents listing content according to schools and movements, genres and subjects. I look forward to reading more from it, if I ever have time, and I'm sure it will be a valuable reference tool for the future. Obviously, some excerpts are covered in more detail than others, as the book is only approximately 2700 pages long and therefore doesn't contain the full publications by each of these figures, merely snippets and excerpts.

The Norton Anthology provides a very good biography of each author, which then gives you sufficient background knowledge to be able to understand the primary texts. However, as a particularly mobile student, I've lugged mine all over the place and as yet it has not been rendered damaged. For autographs of eBook versions of The 13th Fellow: A Mystery in Provence or Bricktop's Paris, please go to Authorgraph. Forty-eight NEW selections—concentrated mostly on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—make the book not only the best overview of the history of theory, but also a remarkably up-to-date portrait of the state of theory today. Excellent selection of texts from Plato's Republic to Stuart Moulthrop's McLuhanist evaluation of the internet.

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A prominent medievalist and feminist critic, Professor Finke is the author of Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film (Johns Hopkins UP), King Arthur and the Myth of History (University Press of Florida), Feminist Theory, Women's Writing (Cornell UP) and Women's Writing in English: The Middle Ages (Longman) and the editor of Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers (Cornell UP).In a life full of reading books, there are few books that have given me so much satisfaction to be done with. It was where I first met the likes of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Freud, and scores of other cultural critics. Belongs on the bookcase of every liberal arts, humanities, philosophy, literature or cultural studies enthusiast.

I do think it's far to say I will never forget some of what I've learned, and I think more and more aspects of these theories will pop up in my life as I go along. This book has most things covered (I haven't sat and read through it yet, but skimming through I have found 90% of lecture references) and means no more cowering behind a mountain of books. This anthology of critical writing ranges from Gorgias and Plato to Sigmund Freud and Mikhail Bakhtin.The pages do crumple and fold somewhat readily, although some might suggest that a well loved book needs a little wear and tear. While it could be argued that this would make for an even thicker and longer text, it is something that this volume certainly lacks. However, with the lighter colours such as orange and yellow it is more than possible to highlight on any page. As an anthology it does a good job and is helpful for those who don't necessarily want to read it all.