Culler, Jonathan. <br/><br/>
Literary theory:  a very short introduction / 
Jonathan Culler 
 - Unites States of America :  Oxford University Press,  c2011 
 - xiv, 165 pages :  illustrations ;  18 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Chapter1. What is theory? -- Chapter2. What is literature and does it matter? -- Chapter3. Literature and cultural studies -- Chapter4. Language, meaning, and interpretation -- Chapter5. Rhetoric, poetics, and poetry -- Chapter6. Narrative -- Chapter7. Performative language -- Chapter8. Identity, identification, and the subject -- Chapter9. Ethics and aesthetics. 
<br/><br/> Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, human identity, and the power of language. Fully updated for 2011 and including a new chapter on 'Ethics and aesthetics', it steers a clear and lucid path through an often impenetrable subject. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199691340 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>CRITICISM
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 81 .C85 2011