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Preface 15 Acknowledgements 17 1 What is theory? 19 2 What is literature and does it matter? 40 3 Literature and cultural studies 68 4 Language, meaning, and interpretation 83 5 Rhetoric, poetics, and poetry 100 6 Narrative 115 7 Performative language 129 8 Identity, identification, and the subject 145 9 Ethics and aesthetics 159 Appendix: Theoretical schools and movements 174 References 189 Further reading 198 Index 206

Author

Jonathan Culler

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

EN

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Updated

2026-03-14