Title: Not really literary theory, but criticism categories
Product review: I bought this book for a literary criticism class and it fit the bill well. This book is not really about literary theory like the title may suggest, but rather it gives different types of viewpoints for criticism of literature. Some include Feminist, formalist, reader response, etc. It doesn't talk about the relationships between an author creating a text, what literature is, etc. that is more of the theory part. So if you want to know the generalized types of criticism that professors expect English majors to be able to point at and name, go for it. It's not going to teach you how to think about it abstractly.
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