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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...
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...
Deleuze, Gilles
Jing Yin, Paul Patton
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Gilles DeleuzeIntroductionGilles Deleuze was one of the most important French philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. Born in 1925, he st...
Derrida, Jacques
Darin Tenev
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Jacques DerridaIntroductionJacques Derrida (b. 1930–d. 2004) is a French thinker most often associated with what came to be known after him as deconst...
Diaspora
Françoise Král
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
DiasporaIntroductionThe term “diaspora” was a neologism coined by the translators of the Hebraic Bible into Greek in the 3rd century bc, and derived f...
Dollimore, Jonathan
Christopher Marlow
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Jonathan DollimoreIntroductionJonathan Dollimore (b. 1948) is a writer and academic whose work on early modern literature, desire, and sexuality has b...
Du Bois, W.E.B.
James Ford
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
W.E.B. Du BoisIntroductionWilliam Edward Burghardt Du Bois (b. 1868–d. 1963) made field-altering contributions, stretching from the 1890s until the 19...
Eagleton, Terry
James Smith
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Terry EagletonIntroductionTerry Eagleton (b. 1943) has been one of the most influential British literary critics and literary theorists of the postwar...
Ecocriticism
Derek Gladwin
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
EcocriticismIntroductionEcocriticism is a broad way for literary and cultural scholars to investigate the global ecological crisis through the interse...
English Colonial Discourse and India
Pramod K. Nayar
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
English Colonial Discourse and IndiaIntroductionEnglish protocolonial and colonial discourses constructed India across multiple fields in the 1600–194...
Environmental Ethics
Wendy Lynne Lee
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Environmental EthicsIntroductionWhile many disciplines have begun to take the environment, its inhabitants, ecosystems, biotic diversity, and future s...
Fanon, Frantz
Anthony Alessandrini
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Frantz FanonIntroductionFrantz Fanon (b. 1925–d. 1961)—psychiatrist, political theorist, poet, polemicist, diplomat, journalist, soldier, doctor, play...
Feminism, Transnational
Asha Nadkarni, Subhalakshmi Gooptu
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Transnational FeminismIntroductionTransnational feminism developed out of postcolonial and women of color feminisms, both of which critiqued the idea ...
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