Literary and Critical Theory - Oxford Bibliographies
Frankfurt School
Douglas Kellner
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Frankfurt SchoolIntroductionThe term “Frankfurt School” refers to the work of members of the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Resear...
Freud, Sigmund
Benjamin Poore
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Sigmund FreudIntroductionThe psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (b. 6 May 1856–d. 23 September 1939) was one of the most controversial and innovative thinker...
Frye, Northrop
Diane Dubois
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Northrop FryeIntroductionHerman Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912–January 23, 1991) was misunderstood for decades as a literary taxonomist or member of the...
Genet, Jean
Mairéad Hanrahan
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Jean GenetIntroductionJean Genet (b. 19 December 1910–d. 15 April 1986) was a 20th-century French poet, novelist, playwright, film director, essayist,...
Girard, René
Wolfgang Palaver
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2020-06-24
René GirardIntroductionRené Noël Théophile Girard (b. 25 December 1923 in Avignon, d. 4 November 2015 in Stanford) was a French-American cultural anth...
Global South
Anne Garland Mahler
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Global SouthIntroductionThe Global South as a critical concept has three primary definitions. First, it has traditionally been used within intergovern...
Goldberg, Jonathan
Marcie Frank
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Jonathan GoldbergIntroductionAstonishingly prolific, literary theorist Jonathan Goldberg has published fourteen books, and edited or coedited five mor...
Greimas, Algirdas Julien
James Carney
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Algirdas Julien GreimasIntroductionAlgirdas Julien Greimas (b. 1917–d. 1992) was a French Lithuanian semiotician who worked on discourse linguistics, ...
Guattari, Félix
Andrew Goffey
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Félix GuattariIntroductionPierre-Félix Guattari (b. 1930–d. 1992) is crucially important for understanding the intellectual scene of postwar France, a...
Habermas, Jürgen
Andrew Edgar
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Jürgen HabermasIntroductionJürgen Habermas (b. 1929) is a German philosopher and social theorist. Early in his career, he was associated with the Fran...
Hartman, Geoffrey
Gina MacKenzie
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Geoffrey HartmanIntroductionGeoffrey H. Hartman is one of the most important literary critics of the 20th century. His work spans six decades, beginni...
Hemispheric Studies
Renee Hudson
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Hemispheric StudiesIntroductionRecently, hemispheric studies has gained traction within American studies scholarship. The field tends to be dominated ...
Hillis-Miller, J.
Éamonn Dunne
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
J. Hillis-MillerIntroductionJ. Hillis Miller (b. 15 March 1928) is described by Julian Wolfreys as the most significant North American literary critic...
Holocaust Literature
Matthew Boswell
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Holocaust LiteratureIntroductionIn a 1977 lecture collected in Dimensions of the Holocaust, the Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel famously argued: “If th...
Human Rights and Literature
Pramod K. Nayar
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Human Rights and LiteratureIntroductionThe field of human rights (HR) and literature has expanded in the last two decades. Fiction, poetry, memoirs, a...
Humanitarian Fiction
Rob Breton
Subject: Literary and Critical Theory »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Humanitarian FictionIntroductionThe term “humanitarian fiction” means different things to different people and has had its meaning modified many times...
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-...
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