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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...
Rich, Adrienne
Carmen Birkle
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Adrienne RichIntroductionAdrienne Cecile Rich (b. 16 May 1929 in Baltimore, MD; d. 27 March 2012 in Santa Cruz, CA) is one of the best-known feminist ...
Richards, I. A.
John Paul Russo
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
I. A. RichardsIntroductionIvor Armstrong Richards (b. 26 February 1893; d. 7 September 1979) is among the most and influential theorists and critics o...
Ronell, Avital
Diane Davis
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Avital RonellIntroductionAvital Ronell (b. 1952) is one of the most important critical thinkers in early-21st-century United States. Her work embraces...
Rosenblatt, Louse
John R. Shook
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Louise RosenblattIntroductionLouise Rosenblatt (b. 1904–d. 2005) was a highly influential thinker in literary and critical theory, reading pedagogy, a...
Said, Edward
Ned Curthoys
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Edward SaidIntroductionEdward Said (b. 1935–d. 2003) was an immensely influential literary and cultural critic and one of the world’s foremost public ...
Semiotics
Stéphanie Walsh Matthews
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
SemioticsIntroductionSemiotics, the study of signs, has experienced a great rise in interest since the 1990s primarily through its application in the ...
Settler Colonialism
Alicia Cox
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Settler ColonialismIntroductionSettler colonialism is an ongoing system of power that perpetuates the genocide and repression of indigenous peoples an...
Socialist/Marxist Feminism
Wendy Lynne Lee
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Socialist/Marxist FeminismIntroductionThe long arc of Marxist scholarship certainly reaches many domains—economics, sociology, political ecology. Howe...
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