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Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor, <em>How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies</em>, Third Edition, presents an up-to-date, concise, and wide-ranging historicist survey of contemporary thinking in critical theory. The only book of its kind that thoroughly merges literary studies with cultural studies, this text provides a critical look at the major movements in literary studies since the 1930s, including those often omitted from other texts. It is also the only up-to-date survey of literary theory that devotes extensive treatment to Queer Theory and Postcolonial and Race Studies. <em>How to Interpret Literature</em> is ideal as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with an anthology of primary readings such as Robert Dale Parker's Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies.<br /><br /><strong>Distinctive Features</strong><br />* A conversational and engaging tone that speaks directly to today