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More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics.
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《书目》(Booklist)书评
Modern literary and cultural criticism has tended to express itself in terms unfamiliar to the nonspecialist (e.g., gynesis, metalanguage, semiotics). This dictionary provides succinct definitions of more than 450 terms relating to criticism and theory in literature, film, linguistics, psychoanalysis, philosophy, feminist studies, media studies, and related areas. Major concepts and schools of thought receive somewhat longer treatment (e.g., two pages for deconstruction). Pronunciation is provided for terms when necessary. While the needs of the nonspecialist receive special consideration, the dictionary also aims to serve as a useful reference for users with some background in modern criticism and theory. The compilers omitted terms too narrowly associated with a single discipline or adequately treated in sources covering specific fields. The bibliographies that follow most entries direct the user to fuller treatments of the topics. A comprehensive bibliography of 25 pages lists all the works cited in the entry bibliographies. Cross-references within entries direct users to related entries. An index of names includes critics and theoreticians, ranging from Freud to Foucault, cited or discussed in the entries. Recommended, as appropriate, for academic and large public libraries. (Reviewed June 1 & 15, 1995)
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The introduction to this literary studies dictionary constructs as its audience a clueless Theseus perplexed by "a patois that is all but unintelligible to the uninitiated" as he or she enters the "often exclusionary" labyrinth where lurk the minotaurean discourses of Derrida, Freud, and Marx. To "nonacademic readers or beginning students," this well-designed Ariadne offers more than 450 inconsistently cross-referenced terms from the philosophical and social theoretical vocabularies of the "posts" (-modernism, -structuralism, -colonialism), psychoanalysis, rhetoric, and African American, gender, and film studies; an index of theorists; and a cumulative bibliography of "modern" that goes back to the surrealist and Russian Formalist 1920s. Opportunities abound for quibbles editorial and substantive; furthermore, the book may miss its uninitiated target audience, who will need another guide to read some entries, which are, although not unintelligible, too abstruse by being short on example and compare-and-contrast context. Although this is a respectable effort, libraries need not acquire it (the cover puffery about its being a first notwithstanding), if they already own Jeremy Hawthorn's Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory (CH, Oct'92). Academic collections. R. H. Kieft; Haverford College
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
The more than 450 definitions in this book are aimed at helping those not formally trained in theory or criticism. The definitions clarify key terms, chiefly in structuralism, semiotics, and post-structuralism, but include useful information on feminist, gay, and racial criticism; narratology; psychoanalysis; Marxism; the new historicism; film theory; and other perspectives, as well as more familiar concepts (surrealism, absurdism, affective fallacy, etc.). Useful cross references enable the reader to explore related concepts, as do references to key sources at the end of entries (though, interestingly, the pronunciation guides are often as odd as the terms they refer to). All in all, a useful, if pricey, reference book or introduction to a daunting field.Richard Kuczkowski, Dominican Coll., Blauvelt, N.Y. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.