Simon (University of Edinburgh, UK) Malpas & Paul (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Wake 
The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory [EPUB ebook] 

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