A User-friendly Guide: Critical Theory Today:

Analyzes ideologies, class tensions, and concepts like "rugged individualism".

Investigates issues of race, identity, and the legacies of colonialism. Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide

The guide has evolved through multiple editions, with the being the most current. Structuralism and Semiotics

Includes Reader-Response, Structuralism and Semiotics, Deconstruction, New Historicism, Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theory, and a newer chapter on Ecocriticism. Practical Application: "The Great Gatsby" Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide

Focuses on "the text itself," examining literary language and organic unity.