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It is completely different from anything else currently available, refreshing, extremely well-written and original in so many ways . . . It is just the sort of book I would want my students to read . . . It is quite the best introductory book that I have ever come across.’ Philip Martin, De Montfort University  \n‘Fresh, surprising, never boring, and engagingly humorous, while remaining intellectually serious and challenging . . . This is a terrific book, and I’m very glad that it exists.’ Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California, Los Angeles  \n‘This excellent book is very well-written and an outstanding introduction to literary studies. An extremely stimulating introduction.’ Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London  \n‘I am convinced that Bennett and Royle have written a pathbreaking work and I suspect that this book – so full of laughter, suspense, secretsand pleasure –will have an appeal beyond a strictly academic audience.’  \nAlan Shima, University of Gothenberg  \n‘All the chapters in the volume are illuminating, informative and original.’ Robert Mills, King’s College London  \n‘Bennett and Royle offera different kind of introduction, which directly involves the reader in the problems and pleasures of thinking about literature – its distinctiveness, its strangeness, its power, its inexhaustibility . . . They succeed brilliantly in encouraging readers who are new to theory to appreciate its importance, enjoy its revelations, and understand some of its conceptual apparatus without diminishing the centrality of literary writing itself. This is a book which students in every introductory course on criticism and theory would benefit from having.’ Derek Attridge, University of York  \nAn Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory  \nAn Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory   \nThird edition  \nANDREW BENNETT AND NICHOLAS ROYLE  \nPEARSON EDUCATION LIMITED  \nEdinburgh Gate Harlow CM20 2JE United Kingdom  \nTel: +44 (0)1279 623623  \nFax: +44 (0)1279 431059  \n[Website: www.pearsoned.co.uk](Website: www.pearsoned.co.uk)  \nThird edition published in Great Britain in 2004  \n© International Book Distributors Limited 1995  \n© Pearson Education Limited 1995, 1999, 2004  \nThe rights of Andrew Bennett (1960–) and Nicholas Royle (1957–) to be identified as authors of this work have been asserted by  \nthem in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. ISBN 0 582 82295 5  \nBritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data  \nA CIP catalogue record for this book can be obtained from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nA CIP catalog record for this book can be obtained from the Library of Congress  \nAll rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without either the prior written permission of the Publishers or a licence permitting restricted copying in the United Kingdom issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd,  \n90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. 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