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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...
Levi-Strauss, Claude
Robert Deliège
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Claude Levi-StraussIntroductionClaude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908–d. 2009) was the most influential French anthropologist of the 20th century and is widely ...
Levinas, Emmanuel
Claire Katz
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Emmanuel LevinasIntroductionEmmanuel Levinas (b. 1906–d. 1995) was a French-Jewish thinker known primarily as the philosopher of the ‘other.’ He studi...
Literature, Dalit
Pramod K. Nayar
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-01-12
Dalit LiteratureIntroductionDalit Literature is at once the expression of a “Dalit consciousness” about identity (both individual and communal), human...
Lonergan, Bernard
Patrick Byrne, Dominic Scheuring, Stephen Ferguson
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Bernard LonerganIntroductionAs with many thinkers of his generation, the Canadian philosopher and theologian Bernard Joseph Francis Xavier Lonergan, S...
Lotman, Jurij
Anna Maria Lorusso
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Jurij LotmanIntroductionJurij (or Yuri) Lotman (b. 1922–d. 1993) was a Russian semiotician and cofounder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. A Ru...
Lukács, Georg
Konstantinos Kavoulakos, Patrick Eiden-Offe
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Georg LukácsIntroductionGeorg (György) Lukács (b. 13 April 1885–d. 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian philosopher and literary theorist of Jewish origin. Hi...
Lyotard, Jean-François
Keith Crome
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Jean-François LyotardIntroductionJean-François Lyotard (b. 1924–d. 1998) is one of the most important critical thinkers of the last half-century. His ...
Marxism
Wendy Lynne Lee
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
MarxismIntroductionMarxism encompasses a wide range of both scholarly and popular work. It spans from the early, more philosophically oriented, Karl M...
Metz, Christian
Warren Buckland
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Christian MetzIntroductionThe film theory of Christian Metz (b. 1931–d. 1993) forms part of the structuralist revolution of ideas that challenged the ...
Morrison, Toni
Tessa Roynon
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Toni MorrisonIntroductionToni Morrison (b. 18 February 1931), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, is the author of eleven novels to date...
Mouffe, Chantal
Paulina Tambakaki
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Chantal MouffeIntroductionChantal Mouffe (b. 1943) is a leading political theorist best known for her post-Marxist inasmuch as her post-structuralist ...
Nancy, Jean-Luc
Ian James
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Jean-Luc NancyIntroductionJean-Luc Nancy (b. 1940) is one of France’s foremost living philosophers. His work spans several decades, from the 1970s thr...
Neo-Slave Narratives
Raquel Kennon
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Neo-Slave NarrativesIntroductionNeo-slave narratives refer to the literary genre of contemporary narratives of slavery that emerge primarily after Wor...
New Historicism
Neema Parvini
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
New HistoricismIntroductionNew historicism has been a hugely influential approach to literature, especially in studies of William Shakespeare’s works ...
New Materialism
Susan Yi Sencindiver
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
New MaterialismIntroductionNew materialism is an interdisciplinary, theoretical, and politically committed field of inquiry, emerging roughly at the m...
Partition Literature
Charlotta Salmi
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Partition LiteratureIntroductionPartition is commonly understood as the division of a state into two or more entities, where at least one successor st...
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