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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...
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 ...
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