Publisher's Synopsis
The Year′s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory is a major annual publication derived from its sister volume The Year′s Work in English Studies. It provides a comprehensive collection of theoretical essays with bibliographies for work published in a given year.
Volume 3 reviews over three hundred titles in fourteen chapters beginning with a general survey of Critical Theory, devoted to the discussion of Cultural Criticism, The Politics of Reading and Writing, Postmodernism, Poetics, Anthropology and Critical Theory, History and Critical Theory. The subsequent chapters offer extensive coverage of Semiotics, Intertextuality, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Feminism, Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory, Historicism, Theories of Reading and Reception, Queer Theories/Cultures, Media Studies, Art Histories and Visual Cultural Studies, Popular Music, and Film Studies.
Volume 3 evaluates work published in 1993.