Epistemology of the Closet

Description

Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor,
, Fourth Edition, presents an up-to-date, concise, and wide-ranging historicist survey of contemporary thinking in critical theory. The only book of its kind that thoroughly merges literary studies with cultural studies, this text provides a critical look at the major movements in literary studies from the 1930s to the present. It is the only up-to-date survey of literary theory that devotes extensive treatment to queer studies, postcolonial and race studies, environmental criticism, and disability studies.
is ideal as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with an anthology of primary readings, like Robert Dale Parker’s
.