Literary and Critical Theory - Oxford Bibliographies
Achebe, Chinua
Madhu Krishnan
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Chinua AchebeIntroductionChinua Achebe (b. Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe 16 [November 1930—d. 21 March 2013]), winner of the 2007 Man Booker Internationa...
Adorno, Theodor
Alex Thomson
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Theodor AdornoIntroductionTheodor W. Adorno (b. 11 September 1903–d. 6 August 1969) was one of the leading European philosophers of the 20th century. ...
Aesthetics, Post-Soul
Emily Lordi
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Post-Soul AestheticsIntroductionFirst coined by Nelson George, in George 1992 (cited under General Overviews), to describe black popular culture and p...
Affect Studies
Mathew Arthur
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-01-12
Affect StudiesIntroductionAcross and between political, cultural, literary, and media theory; feminist, Black, queer/trans, and disability studies; ne...
Afrofuturism
Daylanne K. English
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
AfrofuturismIntroductionAfrofuturism refers to a flourishing contemporary movement of African American, African, and Black diasporic writers, artists,...
Agamben, Giorgio
Daniel McLoughlin
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Giorgio AgambenIntroductionGiorgio Agamben was born in Rome in 1942. He studied law and philosophy at the University of Rome and completed a thesis on...
Anzaldúa, Gloria E.
Vivian Rodríguez-Rocha, Gloria González-López
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Gloria E. AnzaldúaIntroductionGloria Evangelina Anzaldúa was born in Raymondville, Texas in 1942. A self-described Chicana feminist lesbian writer and...
Apel, Karl-Otto
Eduardo Mendieta
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-01-12
Karl-Otto ApelIntroductionKarl-Otto Apel (b. 1922–d. 2017) was one of the most original, influential, and renowned German philosophers of the post–Wor...
Appadurai, Arjun
Mary Hancock, Elizabeth Weigler
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-01-12
Arjun AppaduraiIntroductionArjun Appadurai (b. 1949), currently Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, is an i...
Badiou, Alain
Hollis Phelps
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Alain BadiouIntroductionAlain Badiou (b. 1937) is a leading French philosopher and European intellectual. He is the former chair of philosophy and eme...
Belsey, Catherine
Pamela McCallum
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
Catherine BelseyIntroductionCatherine Belsey (b. 13 December 1940) is a British scholar distinguished in the areas of literary and cultural theory, Sh...
Benjamin, Walter
Alison Ross
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Walter BenjaminIntroductionWalter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (b. 15 July 1892–d. 27 September 1940) was a 20th-century literary critic, theorist, and ...
Bettelheim, Bruno
Nathan Szajnberg
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
Bruno BettelheimIntroductionBruno Bettelheim (b. 23 August 1903—d. 13 March 1990) was one of the foremost 20th-century thinkers about psychoanalysis, ...
Bhabha, Homi K.
David Huddart
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Homi K. BhabhaIntroductionHomi K. Bhabha (b. 1949) is a literary and cultural critic, influential theorist of postcolonial culture, and engaged advoca...
Blanchot, Maurice
Adam Potts
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Maurice BlanchotIntroductionMaurice Blanchot (b. 1907–d. 2003) is a profoundly unique and influential figure of the 20th century. Sitting between phil...
Bloom, Harold
Graham Allen, Roy Sellars
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Harold BloomIntroductionHarold Bloom was born in the Bronx, New York, on 11 July 1930. Brought up in a Yiddish-speaking home, he taught himself Englis...
Bourdieu, Pierre
Jen Webb
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Pierre BourdieuIntroductionThe work of Pierre Bourdieu (b. 1930–d. 2002) has continued to exercise a profound influence on the academic field in the y...
Brecht, Bertolt
Marc Silberman
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Bertolt BrechtIntroductionEugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht (b. 10 February 1898–d. 14 August 1956) was christened Berthold, but he was known professiona...
Brooks, Cleanth
Leroy Searle
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Cleanth BrooksIntroductionCleanth Brooks (b. 1906–d. 1994), after T. S. Eliot and I. A. Richards, was arguably among the most influential modern liter...
Canonicity
Ankhi Mukherjee
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
CanonicityIntroductionThe English word “canon” is derived from the Greek kanon, which translates as “rod,” “measuring stick,” or to “rule.” David Ruhn...
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