A handbook of critical approaches to literature

　　Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, 5/e has become both a standard introduction to the close reading of literature and invaluable resource for English graduate students. It offers students and other readers a variety of ways to interpret a piece of literature, ranging from historical/biographical and moral/philosophical approaches through the formalist, the psychological, the mythic and archetypal, and into such contemporary perspectives as feminist criticism and cultural studies.