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

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

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.