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Habermas, Jürgen
Andrew Edgar
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Jürgen HabermasIntroductionJürgen Habermas (b. 1929) is a German philosopher and social theorist. Early in his career, he was associated with the Fran...
Hartman, Geoffrey
Gina MacKenzie
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Geoffrey HartmanIntroductionGeoffrey H. Hartman is one of the most important literary critics of the 20th century. His work spans six decades, beginni...
Hemispheric Studies
Renee Hudson
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Hemispheric StudiesIntroductionRecently, hemispheric studies has gained traction within American studies scholarship. The field tends to be dominated ...
Hillis-Miller, J.
Éamonn Dunne
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
J. Hillis-MillerIntroductionJ. Hillis Miller (b. 15 March 1928) is described by Julian Wolfreys as the most significant North American literary critic...
Holocaust Literature
Matthew Boswell
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Holocaust LiteratureIntroductionIn a 1977 lecture collected in Dimensions of the Holocaust, the Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel famously argued: “If th...
Human Rights and Literature
Pramod K. Nayar
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Human Rights and LiteratureIntroductionThe field of human rights (HR) and literature has expanded in the last two decades. Fiction, poetry, memoirs, a...
Humanitarian Fiction
Rob Breton
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Humanitarian FictionIntroductionThe term “humanitarian fiction” means different things to different people and has had its meaning modified many times...
Hutcheon, Linda
Geert Lernout
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Linda HutcheonIntroductionLinda Hutcheon (b. 1947 as Linda Bortolotti) grew up in Toronto, where she did her honors bachelor of arts in modern languag...
Imperial Masculinity
Praseeda Gopinath
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Imperial MasculinityIntroductionMasculinity, even within the frames of masculinity studies where it is contested, is difficult to define. For the purp...
Irigaray, Luce
Claire Colebrook
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Luce IrigarayIntroductionLuce Irigaray (1932–) is a Belgian-born philosopher (holding a 1955 master’s degree from the University of Louvain) who moved...
Jameson, Fredric
Sean Homer
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Fredric JamesonIntroductionFredric Jameson (b. 14 April 1934) is North America’s leading Marxist cultural theorist and critic. He is the Knut Schmidt-...
JanMohamed, Abdul R.
Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Abdul R. JanmohamedIntroductionAbdul R. JanMohamed (b. 1945) has made a seminal contribution to postcolonial and black studies since the early 1980s. ...
Johnson, Barbara
Keja Valens
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Barbara JohnsonIntroductionBarbara Johnson (b. 1947–d. 2009) bridged the heyday of deconstruction and the turn to theory in the 1970s and the ascendan...
Kagame, Alexis
Jean-Paul Martinon
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Alexis KagameIntroductionAlexis Kagame (b. 1912–d. 1981) was a Rwandan philosopher, theologian, linguist, historian, poet, translator, and Catholic pr...
Kolodny, Annette
Stephanie A. Smith
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Annette KolodnyIntroductionAnnette Kolodny (b. 21 August 1941) is an American literary and cultural critic and College of Humanities Professor Emerita...
Kristeva, Julia
Gina MacKenzie
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Julia KristevaIntroductionJulia Kristeva is a seminal figure in modern psychoanalytic, linguistic, and feminist criticism. A native of Bulgaria, Krist...
Lacan, Jacques
Eugene O'Brien
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Jacques LacanIntroductionJacques Marie Émile Lacan was born on April 13, 1901, and died on September 9, 1981. He was a French psychoanalyst and philos...
Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe
John McKeane
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Philippe Lacoue-LabartheIntroductionPhilippe Lacoue-Labarthe (b. 1940–d. 2007) was a professor of aesthetic philosophy, but also a poet, translator, a...
Laplanche, Jean
Lucas Fain
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Jean LaplancheIntroductionJean Laplanche (b. 1924–d. 2012) was a French psychoanalyst and vintner. Among the most innovative and theoretically rigorou...
Leavis, F. R.
Richard Storer
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
F. R. LeavisIntroductionF. R. (Frank Raymond) Leavis (b. 14 July 1895–d. 14 April 1978) is often described as one of the most influential figures in t...
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