This title provides clear and useful discussions of the main areas of literary, critical and cultural theory. It includes Key Concepts in Literary Theory presents the student of literary and critical studies with a broad range of accessible, precise and authoritative definitions of the most significant terms and concepts currently used in psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, Marxist, feminist, and postcolonial literary studies. It includes more than 100 additional terms and concepts defined. It provides newly defined terms that include keywords from the social sciences, cultural studies and psychoanalysis and the addition of a broader selection of classical rhetorical terms. It is an expanded chronology, with additional entries and a broader historical and cultural range. It offers expanded bibliographies including key texts by major critics.