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Theatre of the Absurd
Michael Y. Bennett
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Theatre of the AbsurdIntroductionCoined and first theorized by BBC Radio drama critic Martin Esslin in a 1960 article and a 1961 book of the same name...
Thing Theory
Sarah Wasserman
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2020-06-24
Thing TheoryIntroductionThing theory names an approach that scholars use to investigate human-object relations in art, literature, culture, and everyd...
Tolstoy, Leo
Inessa Medzhibovskaya
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-03-24
Leo TolstoyIntroductionCount Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy) is one of the greatest writers of all time. Born in Yasnaya Polyana on 9 September ...
Tomashevsky, Boris
Igor Pilshchikov
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Boris TomashevskyIntroductionBoris Tomashevsky (b. 1890–d. 1957) was a Russian Formalist literary scholar, verse theorist, academic editor, historian ...
Translation
Brian O'Keeffe
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2022-07-26
TranslationIntroduction Translatio, in Latin, suggests a crossing from one waterside to another. Imagine translation, therefore, as an exercise in fer...
Transnationalism in Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies
Edward Piñuelas
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Transnationalism in Postcolonial and Subaltern StudiesIntroductionIt is widely argued that the emergence of contemporary literary criticism came in 19...
Virilio, Paul
Jason Adams
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Paul VirilioIntroductionPaul Virilio (b. 1932) is a singular figure in the annals of postwar French critical theory. Generally speaking, he rejects th...
White, Hayden
Karyn Ball, Ewa Domańska
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Hayden WhiteIntroductionHayden White (b. 12 July 1928–d. 5 March 2018) was a groundbreaking critic of conventional historiography whose emphasis on th...
Wittig, Monique
Kayte Stokoe
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Monique WittigIntroductionMonique Wittig (13 July 1935–3 January 2003), winner of the prestigious French literary prize the Prix Médicis for her first...
World Literature
Sowon Park, Jernej Habjan
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
World LiteratureIntroductionAs a global academic branch of studies, world literature emerged around the turn of the millennium, though thinking about ...
Zimmerman, Bonnie
Emma Heaney
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Bonnie ZimmermanIntroductionBonnie Zimmerman (b. 1947) is a key figure in the development of the academic fields of women’s studies, lesbian studies, ...
Žižek, Slavoj
Jamil Khader
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
Slavoj ŽižekIntroductionSlavoj Žižek was born on March 21, 1949, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in the former Yugoslavia. Žižek studied philosophy and sociol...
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