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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...
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Lucia Santaella
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-11-23
Charles Sanders PeirceIntroductionCharles Sanders Peirce (b. 1839–d. 1914) was a polymath who contributed many insights to diverse sciences, from cart...
Philosophy of Theater, The
Michael Y. Bennett
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
The Philosophy of TheaterIntroductionTheater—i.e., traditional text-based theater—is often considered the art form that most closely resembles lived l...
Post-Structuralism
Andrea Hurst
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Post-StructuralismIntroductionPost-structuralism denotes a way of theorizing that emerged around the 1950s, predominantly in France, among otherwise e...
Postcolonial Theory
J Daniel Elam
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Postcolonial TheoryIntroductionPostcolonial theory is a body of thought primarily concerned with accounting for the political, aesthetic, economic, hi...
Postmodernism
Hans Bertens
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
PostmodernismIntroductionThe terms “postmodern” and “postmodernism” first of all referred to new departures in the arts, in literature, and in archite...
Psychoanalytic Theory
Matthew Sharpe, Andrew Sims
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Psychoanalytic TheoryIntroductionSince its inception with the groundbreaking works of Freud, psychoanalytic theory has branched out from Freud’s clini...
Queer Medieval
Albrecht Classen
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Queer MedievalGeneral OverviewsFollowing increasing popularity in the study the history of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages since the middle of...
Race and Disability
Dennis Tyler
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Race and DisabilityIntroductionIn recent years, a small but significant body of work has appeared addressing the intersections of race and disability ...
Rancière, Jacques
Oliver Davis
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Jacques RancièreIntroductionJacques Rancière (b. 1940) is a French philosopher and cultural critic whose work spans history, politics, philosophy, art...
Ransom, John Crowe
Kieran Quinlan
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
John Crowe RansomIntroductionJohn Crowe Ransom (b. 30 April 1888–d. 3 July 1974) was an American poet, Southern Agrarian, literary critic, and editor ...
Reader Response Theory
Susan Browne, Xiufang Chen, Faten Baroudi, Esra Sevinc
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-04-21
Reader Response TheoryIntroductionThis annotated bibliography presents influential work in the area of reader response theory. While providing an over...
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