"The six chapters that follow are somewhat expanded versions of six lectures in which problems of interpretation are considered suggestively, not systematically. That the gospels offer peculiar opportunities to anybody making inquiries of this sort seems obvious ... Mark, who pr…
Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of interpretation in literary stu…
The Edinburgh companion to children's literature
Time has passed since 'having a PhD in children's literature' was a funny joke in You've Got Mail. Children's literature research is now one of the most dynamic fields of literary criticism and of education, and has a bright future ahead - as children's writers and publishers in…