A review on a «rereading» (a look at contemporary literary theories and critique

An audience who is attracted to a book by its title will undoubtedly search the first pages of the book for the grounds justifying their attraction. The objectives and questions suggested by the author will in some way involve the minds of the readers and encourage them to read the book. Sometimes this encouragement is combined with a sense of wonder and fascination, as the author may have managed to break the classifications and structures formed in the minds of the readers through a mechanism of defamiliarization. The book entitled Contemporary literary theories and critique is an example of this sort, which intends to comprehensively introduce a diverse range of topics in a very compact volume, to achieve several goals, and simultaneously to address some questions, which do not perfectly match the presented goals. The aim of this review is to assess the method of responding the presented questions and measure the credibility of these responses, in addition to the evaluation of the level of access of the author to the presented goals and his adherence to the rules of reading.