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The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory is a major annual publication derived from its sister volume The Year's Work in English Studies. It provides a comprehensive collection of theoretical essays with bibliographies for work published in a given year. Part I begins with a general survey of Critical Theory, devoted to such issues as Postmodernism, Narrativity, The Politics and Ideology of Theory and Criticism, Online Literacy, Education, and Reference. It continues with extensive coverage of work in: Rhetoric and Deconstruction, Semiotics, Hermeneutics, Intertextuality, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Historicism, Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory, Art History, Popular Music, and Media Theory. Part II consists of seven specially commissioned pieces providing a post-Glasnost European perspective, with contributions by: Rainer Emig on the state of Critical and Cultural Theory in Germany Today, Sharon Wood on Feminism and Theory in Italy, Steve Smith on Althusser After Marxism, Anatol V.Lashkevitch on Modern Literary Theories and Russian Cultural Policy, Yury Azarov on Interliterary Communities and the Comparative Study of Literature, Tadeusz Slawek on Hospitality, Closure and Eastern Europe, and Tatyana Stoicheva on Post-1989 Bulgarian Literary Theory and Criticism.Volume 2 evaluates work published in 1992.