Michael Payne & Jessica Rae Barbera 
A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory [EPUB ebook] 

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

Cuprins

List of Contributors vi

Preface to the First Edition (1996) x

Preface to the Second Edition (2010) xii

Acknowledgments xiv

Introduction 1

A-Z entries 12

Bibliography 742

Index 808

Despre autor

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.