Paul Wake is a lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University where he specialises in narrative and literary theory.Simon Malpas is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University. His research interests include research interests include aesthetics, continental philosophy, literary theory and postmodernism, and he is the author of The Postmodern (Routledge, 2006).

• Editor’s Introduction, Introduction to the second Edition Part I: Critical Theory: Introductory Essays 1. Structuralism and Semiotics 2. Narrative and Narratology 3. Marxism 4. Poststructuralism 5. Historicism 6. Psychoanalytic Criticism 7. Deconstruction 8. Feminism 9. Gender and Queer Theory 10. Postmodernism 11. Race and Postcoloniality 12. Posthumanism 13. Trauma Theory 14. Green Theory/Ecocriticism Part II: Names and Terms Part III: History and Context

Paul Wake is a lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University where he specialises in narrative and literary theory.Simon Malpas is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University. His research interests include research interests include aesthetics, continental philosophy, literary theory and postmodernism, and he is the author of The Postmodern (Routledge, 2006).

• Editor’s Introduction, Introduction to the second Edition Part I: Critical Theory: Introductory Essays 1. Structuralism and Semiotics 2. Narrative and Narratology 3. Marxism 4. Poststructuralism 5. Historicism 6. Psychoanalytic Criticism 7. Deconstruction 8. Feminism 9. Gender and Queer Theory 10. Postmodernism 11. Race and Postcoloniality 12. Posthumanism 13. Trauma Theory 14. Green Theory/Ecocriticism Part II: Names and Terms Part III: History and Context