Theoretically Speaking about Literature: Understanding Theory in the Study of Literary Works
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Through focus on a single study text, discussed from the perspective of eighteen distinct theories that are presented and explained in a consistent manner throughout, readers are given a practical and comprehensible insight into the ideas and beliefs that underpin critical interpretation.
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Dr Cristina Pividori is a lecturer in English Literature at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Her main research interest is war representation, with a particular emphasis on the challenges inherent in the representation of the First World War. She has published articles and chapters in these areas and is the co-editor of Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse (2016) and The Spectre of Defeat in Post-War British and US Literature (2021).
