Literary and Critical Theory - B - Oxford Bibliographies
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...
Caputo, John D.
Jeffrey W. Robbins
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-09-25
John D. CaputoIntroductionJohn D. Caputo (b. 26 October 1940), Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities Emeritus at Syracuse University a...
Cosmopolitanism
Moriah Maresh
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
CosmopolitanismIntroductionCosmopolitanism is the ideology that all people are “citizens of the world” (Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Stranger...
Crip Theory
Robert McRuer, Emma Cassabaum
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Crip TheoryIntroductionCrip theory began to flourish in the interdisciplinary fields of disability studies and queer theory in the early decades of th...
Critical Theory
Neal Harris
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2022-10-27
Critical TheoryIntroductionFormed as the Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung) in 1923, Frankfurt School scholarship is distinc...
Cultural Materialism
Hans Bertens
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Cultural MaterialismIntroductionCultural materialism as a literary critical practice—this article will not address its anthropological namesake—is a M...
de Certeau, Michel
Inigo Bocken
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Michel de CerteauIntroductionMichel de Certeau (b. 1925–d. 9 January 1986), historian, cultural theorist, psychoanalyst, and theologian, was one of th...
de Man, Paul
Martin McQuillan
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Paul de ManIntroductionPaul de Man (b. 1919–d. 1983) was one of the most influential literary theorists of the second half of the 20th century. He is ...
de Saussure, Ferdinand
Boris Gasparov
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-04-21
Ferdinand de SaussureIntroductionFerdinand de Saussure (b. 1857–d. 1913, Geneva) is widely recognized as the founder of modern theoretical linguistics...
Deconstruction
Joshua Kates
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
DeconstructionIntroductionDeconstruction initially translates a term coined by the French philosopher (and arch-deconstructionist) Jacques Derrida. Ra...
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