HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):
  
Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):
  
Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

   Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):
  
Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:
  
Romanticism (1785-1830):
     
Romantic Literature
   Mid-Century/Fin de Siècle (1830-1900)
:
     
'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:
  
Analytic Philosophy

   Continental Theory:
     
Idealism

      Marxism

      Phenom., Existent., Hermeneutics

      Psychoanalysis

      (Post-)Structuralisms:

         Deconstruction

         Deleuzean Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)

         Foucauldian Discourse Theory

         Semiology / Structuralism

         Structuralist Marxism

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis

   Modernism, Myth & New Criticism

   Pragmatism

 

   Feminist Theory

   Post-colonial Theory

 

   Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

   Central Asia

   East Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

   Central Europe

   Eastern Europe:

      Russia:

        Literature

   Northern Europe:

      Literature

   Southern Europe:

      Greece:

         Literature

      Italy:

         Literature

      Spain:

         Literature

   Western Europe:

      France:

         Literature

      Germany:

         Literature

      UK and Eire:

         Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

   Arabic/Islamic Thought:

      Literature

   Israeli/Jewish Thought:

      Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

   African American Thought:

      Literature

   Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

   Architecture
   Arts, Visual and Plastic

   Film

   Literature:

      Author

      Literary Form & Genre:

         Drama

         Poetry

         Prose

      Literary History, Intertextuality, Canon.

      Metaliterature

      Reader

      Representation

   Music
   Other Media (e.g. Photography)

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

   Discourse Studies
   Philosophy of Language & Logic

   Linguistics

   Rhetoric & Argumentation Theory

   Semiotics

 

   Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

   Medical Humanities
  
Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

   Psychology

 

   Gender

   Race

   Sexuality

 

   Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

LITERATURE
PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE
LITERARY THEORY


SUB-PAGES

Sub-Topics:

Feminist:

Post-colonial:


ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2009:

  • Style in Theory / Styling Theory, Inaugural International Literary Criticism and Theory Conference
    Series, Department of English, University of Malta, November 26-28
  • The Surplus of Culture: Sense, Common-Sense, Non-Sense, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures,
    University of Silesia, September 16-20
  • Genre and Interpretation, Finnish Literary Society and Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies, Helsinki, June 10–12

2008:

  • 11th International Conference, International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media, University of Memphis, July 8-11
  • Global Arts, Local Knowledge, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Melbourne, June 30-July 6
  • Philosophy and Literature / Literature and Philosophy, Inaugural Conference, Centre for Literature and Philosophy, University of Sussex, June 12-14
  • Character and Emotions, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Université de Genevè, April 25
  • Philosophy of Literature, Ratio Conference 2008, University of Reading, April 12

2007:

  • Poets Reading Philosophy / Philosophers Reading Poetry, Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts , University of Warwick, October 26-28

2006:

2005:

  • Textual Culture, Centre for Textual Culture, Literature and Technology, University of Stirling, July 19-20
  • Music, Poetry and Sense Experience, New Languages for Criticism: Cross-currents and Resistances and the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL), École des Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, June 10-11
  • Future Literature, Future Criticism, Prague, Czech Republic, March 17-19
  • Poetry and Belief, Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick, February 25

  • Character and Imagination, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, January 29

2004:

  • IV Congreso Internacional de Teoria y Critica Literaria, Centro de Estudios de Teoria y Critica literaria, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina, August 18-20

  • Cultures, Theories, Critiques, Department of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham, April

2003:

2002:

  • Theory Now: a Conference in Memory of Antony Easthope, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, June 28-30

2001:

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2000:

  •  

Annual:

  •  

COURSES

Philosophy of Literature

Literary Theory:

HISTORY OF LITERATURE

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

Philosophers of Literature:

Literary Theorists:

REGIONS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

  • Humanity: Philosophy and Literary Theory (Ed. Hugh J. Silverman)

  • Indiana University Press: Theories of Representation and Difference (Ed. Teresa de Lauretis)

  • University of Minnesota Press: Theory and History of Literature (Ed. Wlad Godzich and Jochen Schulte-Sasse)

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Philosophy of Literature:
      • Bolling, Doug, ed.  Philosophy and Literature New York: Haven, 1987.
      • Davies, David, and Carl Matheson, eds.  Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Literature.  Peterborough, ONT: Broadview, 2005.
      • Fox, Richard, ed.  Readings in Philosophy and Literature.  Kendall-Hunt, 1971.
      • John, Eileen, and Dominic McIver Lopes, eds.  The Philosophy of Literature: Classic and Contemporary Readings.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
      • Lamarque, Peter, ed.  Philosophy and Fiction: Essays in Literary Aesthetics.  Aberdeen: Aberdeen UP, 1983.
      • Thompson, Peter, ed.  Philosophy and Literature: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Commitment.  Harcourt College, 1969.  Rpt. 2001.
    • Literary Theory:
      • Adams, Hazard, ed.  Critical Theory Since Plato.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971.
      • Adams, Hazard, and Leroy Searle, eds.  Critical Theory Since 1965.  Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1986.
      • Bate, Walter Jackson, ed.  Criticism: the Major Texts.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1952.
      • Bloom, Harold, ed.  The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present.  11 Vols.  New York: Chelsea House, 1985-1990.
      • Clark, Barrett R., ed.  European Theories of the Drama.  
      • Davis, Robert Con, ed.  Contemporary Literary Criticism: Modernism through Structuralism.  London: Longman, 1986.
      • Easthope, Antony, and Kate McGowan, eds.  A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader.  Buckingham: Open UP, 1992.
      • Fokkema, Douwe Wessel, and Elrud Kunne-Ibsch, eds.  Theories of Literature in the Twentieth Century: Structuralism, Marxism, Aesthetics of Reception.  New York: St. Martin's, 1978.
      • George, A. G., ed.  Makers of Literary Criticism.  3 Vols.  London: Asia Publishing, 1967.
      • Gilbert, Alan H., ed.  Literary Criticism: Plato to Dryden.  New York: American Book Co., 1940.  Rpt. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1962.
      • Hall, Lawrence Sargent, ed.  A Grammar of Literary Criticism.  New York: Macmillan, 1965.
      • Kaplan, Charles, ed.  Criticism: the Major Statements.  New York: St. Martin's, 1980.
      •  3rd Ed. by Kaplan and William Anderson, 1991. 
      • Lambropoulos, Vassilis, and David Neal Miller, eds.  Twentieth Century Literary Theory: an Introductory Anthology.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1986.
      • Leitch, Vincent, et al., eds.  Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  New York: Norton, 2001.
      • Lipking, Lawrence I., and A. Walton Litz, eds.  Modern Literary Criticism, 1900-1970.  New York: Scribner, 1972.
      • Lodge, David, ed.  Modern Criticism and Theory: a Reader.  London: Longman, 1988.
      •  2nd Ed. 2000.  3rd Edition, ed. Lodge and Nigel Wood.  Harlow: Pearson Educational, 2008.
      • Lodge, David, ed.  Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.  London: Longman, 1972.
      •  
      • Newton, K. M., ed.  Twentieth Century Literary Theory: a ReaderLondon: Macmillan, 1988.  2nd Ed. 1997.
      • Newton, K. M., ed.  Theory into Practice: a Reader in Modern Literary Criticism.  New York: St. Martin's, 1992.
      • Rice, Philip, and Patricia Waugh, eds.  Modern Literary Theory: a Reader.  London: Edward Arnold, 1989.
      • Richter, David H., ed.  The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.  Boston: Bedford, 1998.
      • Rivkin, Julie, and Michael Ryan, eds.  Literary Theory: an Anthology.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
      • Rylance, Rick, ed.  Debating Texts: Readings in Twentieth Century Literary Theory and Method.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1987.
      • Selden, Raman, ed.  The Theory of Criticism: from Plato to the Present.  London: Longman, 1988.
      • Stallman, Robert Wooster, ed.  Critiques and Essays in Criticism, 1920-1948.  New York: Ronald Press, 1949.
      • Staton, Shirley, ed.  Literary Theories in Praxis.  Pennsylvania: U of Pennsylvania P, 1987.
      • Steiner, Wendy, ed.  Literature as Meaning.  London: Longman, 2005.
      • Sutton, Walter, and Richard Foster, ed.  Modern Criticism: Theory and Practice.  New York: Odyssey, 1963.
      • Trilling, Lionel, ed.  Literary Criticism: an Introductory Reader.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1970.
      • Vivas, Eliseo, and Murray Krieger, eds.  The Problems of Aesthetics: a Book of Readings.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1953.
      • Walder, Dennis, ed.  Literature in the Modern World.  Oxford: OUP, 1990.  Rev. ed. 2003.
      • Waugh, Patricia, ed.  Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature.  London: Arnold, 1997.
      • Wolfreys, Julian. ed.  Literary Theories: a Reader and Guide.  New York: New York UP, 1999.
  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Philosophy of Literature:
      • Currie, Gregory.  The Nature of Fiction.  Cambridge: CUP, 1990.
      • Davies, David.  Aesthetics and Literature.  London: Continuum, 2007.
      • Dasenbrock, Reed Way.  Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2001.
      • Eldridge, Richard.  Literature, Life, and Modernity.  New York: Columbia UP, 2008.
      • Ellis, John.  The Theory of Criticism: a Logical Analysis.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1977.

      • Lamarque, Peter.  The Philosophy of Literature.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.
      • Lamarque, Peter.  Fictional Points of View.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996.
      • Lamarque, Peter, and Stein Haugom Olsen.  Truth, Fiction and Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.
      • New, Christopher.  Philosophy of Literature: an Introduction.  London: Routledge, 1999.
      • Olsen, Stein Haugom.  The End of Literary Theory.  Cambridge: CUP, 1987.
      • Olsen, Stein Haugom.  The Structure of Literary Understanding.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.
      • Voltolini, Alberto.  How Ficta Follow Fiction: a Syncretistic Account of Fictional Entities.  Dordrecht: Springer, 2006.

    • Literary Theory (Miscellaneous Items):

      • Altieri, Charles.  Act and Quality: a Theory of Literary Meaning and Humanistic Understanding.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1981.
      • Docherty, Thomas.  Criticism and Modernity: Aesthetics, Literature, and Nations in Europe and its Academies.  Oxford: OUP, 1999.
      • Docherty, Thomas.  Reading (Absent) Character: Towards a Theory of Characterisation in Fiction.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1997.
      • Docherty, Thomas.  Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.
      • Docherty, Thomas.  After Theory: Postmodernism / PostMarxism.  London: Routledge, 1990; Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1997.
      • Docherty, Thomas.  On Modern Authority: the Theory and Condition of Writing, 1500 - the Present.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1987.
      • Hohendahl, Uwe.  The Institution of Criticism.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982.
      • McDonald, Rónán.  The Death of the Critic.  London: Continuum, 2007.
      • Mills, Kevin.  The Prodigal Sign: a Parable of Criticism.  Brighton: Sussex Academic, 2009.
      • Righter, William.  The Myth of Theory.  Cambridge: CUP, 2009.

On-Line:

  • Philosophy of Literature:
  • Literary Theory:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Philosophy of Literature:
      • Griffiths, A. Phillips, ed.  Philosophy and Literature.  Cambridge: CUP, 1984.
      • Jost, Walter, and Kenneth Dauber, eds.  Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking after Cavell after Wittgenstein.  Afterword by Stanley Cavell.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2003.
      • Rudrum, David, ed.  Literature and Philosophy: a Guide to Contemporary Debates.  London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006.
    • Literary Theory:
      • Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Etc.:
        • Coyle, Martin, et al., eds.  Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism.  
        • Groden, Michael, and Martin Kreiswirth, eds.  Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.
        •  Rev. Ed. 2005.
        • Lentricchia, Frank, and Thomas McLaughlin, eds.  Critical Terms for Literary Studies.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.
        • Makaryk, Irena R., ed.  Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, TermsToronto: U of Toronto P, 1993.

        • Payne, Michael, Meenakshi Ponnuswami, and Jennifer Payne, eds.  A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

        • Wolfreys, Julian, ed.  Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and TheoryEdinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2002.  [pub. in USA as Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory.  New York: Continuum, 2002.]
        • Wolfreys, Julian, ed.  Glossalalia: an Alphabet of Critical Keywords.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2003.
      • Histories, Surveys, Introductions, etc.:
        • Adams, Hazard, Bernard Duffey, et al., eds.  Approaches to the Study of Twentieth- Century Literature.  East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1961.
        • Atkins, G. Douglas, and Laura Morrow, eds.  Contemporary Literary Theory.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1989.
        • Barry, Peter, ed.  Issues in Contemporary Critical Theory: a Casebook.  Ed. Peter Barry.  London: Macmillan, 1987.

        • Borklund, Elmer, ed.  Contemporary Literary Critics.  Detroit: Gale, 1982.
        • Butler, Judith, John Guillory, and Kendall Thomas, eds.  What's Left of Theory?  New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory.  London: Routledge, 2000.

        • Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP.
          • Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives.  Vol. 9.  Ed. Christa Knellwolf and Christopher Norris.  2001.
          • From Formalism to Poststructuralism.  Vol. 8.  Ed. Raman Selden.  1995.
          • Modernism and the New Criticism.  Vol. 7.  Ed. A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey.  2000. 
          • Realism, Positivism, and Marxism.  Ed. George Alexander Kennedy.  Vol. 6.  2006.
          • Romanticism.  Vol. 5.  Ed. Marshall Brown.  2000.
          • The Eighteenth Century.  Vol. 4.  Ed. H. B. Nisbet and Claude Rawson.  1997.
          • The Renaissance.  Vol. 3.  Ed. Glyn P. Norton.  1999.
          • The Middle Ages.  Vol. 2.  Ed. Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson.  2004.
          • Classical Criticism.  Vol. 1.  Ed. George Alexander Kennedy.  1993.
        • Castle, Gregory, ed.  Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

        • Collier, Peter, and Helga Geyer-Ryan, eds.  Literary Theory Today.  Cambridge: Polity, 1990.
        • Demetz, Peter, Thomas Greene, and Lowry Nelson, Jr., eds.  The Disciplines of Criticism.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1968.

        • Frye, Northrop, Sheridan Baker, and George Perkins, eds.  Harper Handbook to Literature.  New York: Harper and Row, 1985.

        • Gibaldi, Joseph, ed.  Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures.  New York: Modern Language Association, 1981.
        • Greenblatt, Stephen, and Giles Gunn, eds.  Redrawing the Boundaries: the Transformation of English and American Literary Studies.  New York: MLA, 1992.
        • Hawthorn, Jeremy, ed.  Criticism and Critical Theory.  London: Arnold, 1984.
        • Hernadi, Paul, ed.  What Is Criticism?.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1981.
        • Jay, Gregory S., and David L. Miller, eds.  After Strange Texts: the Role of Theory in the Study of Literature.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1985. 
        • Jefferson, Ann, and David Robey, eds.  Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative Introduction.  Lansing, MI: Rowman and Littlefield, 1982.
        • Malpas, Simon, and Paul Wake, eds.  Routledge Companion to Critical Theory.  London: Routledge, 2006.

        • Moran, Charles, and Elizabeth Penfield, eds.  Conversations: Contemporary Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature.  Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English,  .

        • Salusinsky, Imre, ed.  Criticism in Society: Interviews with Jacques Derrida, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Frank Kermode, Edward Said, Barbara Johnson, Frank Kermode.  London: Methuen, 1989.
        • Staton, Shirley, ed.  Literary Theories in Praxis.  Pennsylvania: U of Pennsylvania P, 1987.

        • Tallack, Douglas, ed.  Literary Theory at Work: Three Texts.  London: Batsford, 1987.
        • Thorpe, James, ed.  The Aims and Methods of Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures.  New York: Modern Language Association, 1963.
        • Waugh, Patricia, ed.  Modern Literary Theory and Criticism: an Oxford Guide.  Oxford: OUP, 2006.
        • Waugh, Patricia, ed.  Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature
        • Widdowson, Peter, ed.  A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory.  Upper Saddle River, NJ.: Prentice Hall, 1997.
        • Wolfreys, Julian, ed.  Thinking Difference: Critics in Conversation.  New York: Fordham UP, 2004.
        • Wolfreys, Julian, ed.  Introducing Criticism at the 21st CenturyEdinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2002.
        • Wolfreys, Julian, and William Baker, eds.  Literary Theories: a Case Study in Critical Performance.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1996.
        • Wolfreys, Julian, ed..  Literary Theories: a Reader and Guide.  New York: New York UP, 1999.
  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Philosophy of Literature:
      • Baldwin, Robert C., and James A. S. McPeek.  An Introduction to Philosophy through Literature.  New York: Ronald, 1950.
      • Davies, David.  The Philosophy of Literature.  Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2004.
      • Hahn, Stephen.  On Philosophy in Literature.  Belmont: Wadsworth, 2004.
      • Johnson, Charles W.  Philosophy in Literature.  Emtext, 1992.
      • Klieman, Lowell, and Stephen Lewis.  Philosophy: an Introduction through Literature.  New York: Paragon, 1992.
      • Kolenda, Konstantin.  Philosophy in literature: Metaphysical Darkness and Ethical Light.  New York: Barnes and Noble, 1982.
      • Kuhns, Richard Francis.  Structures of Experience: Essays on the Affinity between Philosophy and Literature.  New York: Basic, 1970.
      • Martin, Graham Dunstan.  Language, Truth, and Poetry: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Literature.  New York: Columbia UP, 1980.
      • Muller, Gustav Emil.  Philosophy of Literature.  Ayer, 1976.
      • Murdoch, Iris.  Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1997.

      • New, Christopher.  Philosophy of Literature: an Introduction.  London: Routledge, 1999.
      • Porter, Burton F.  Philosophy Through Fiction and Film.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2003.
      • Rickman, H. P.  Philosophy in Literature.  Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1996.
      • Ross, Julian L.  Philosophy in Literature.  Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1949.

      • Rowe, M. M.  Philosophy and Literature: a Book of Essays.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

      • Skilleas, Ole Martin.  Philosophy and Literature: an Introduction.  New York: Columbia UP, 2001.

      • Miller, Eugene M., and Edmund J. Thomas, eds.  Writers and Philosophers: a Sourcebook of Philosophical Influences on Literature.  New York: Greenwood, 1990.
      • Tschumi, Raymond.  A Philosophy of Literature.  Dufour, 1968.
      • Weitz, Morris.  Philosophy in Literature: Shakespeare, Voltaire, Tolstoy, Proust.  Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1963.
    • Literary Theory:
      • Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Etc.:
        • Abrams, M. H.  A Glossary of Literary Terms.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1993.
        • Baldick, Chris.  The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms.  Oxford: OUP, 2001.
        • Brooker, Peter.  A Glossary of Cultural Theory.  London: Arnold, .

        • Childers, Joseph, and Gary Hentzi.  Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism.  New York: Columbia UP, 1995.

        • Cuddon, J. A.  Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory.  New York: Penguin USA, 1992.

        • Edgar, Andrew, and Peter Sedgwick.  Cultural Theory: the Key Thinkers.  London: Routledge, 2002.

        • Edgar, Andrew, and Peter Sedgwick.  Cultural Theory: the Key Concepts.  London: Routledge, 2002.

        • Fowler, Roger.  A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973.

        • Harris, Wendell V.  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.
        • Macey, David.  Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory.  New York: Penguin, 2002.

        • Murfin, Ross C., and Supryia M. Ray.  Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms.  New York: Bedford St. Martin's, 2003.

        • Wolfreys, Julian.  Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
        • Wolfreys, Julian, Ruth Robbins, and Kenneth Womack.  Key Concepts in Literary Theory.  Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
      • Histories, Surveys, Introductions, etc.:
        • Abrams, M. H.  "Introduction: Orientation of Critical Theories."  The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition.  Oxford: OUP, 1953.  3-29.
        • Attick, R. D.   The Art of Literary Research.  New York: Norton, .
        • Barry, Peter.  Beginning Theory: an Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 2002.
        • Bate, Walter Jackson.  Prefaces to Criticism.  New York: Doubleday, 1959.

        • Beaugrande, Robert de.  Critical Discourse: a Survey of Literary Theorists.  Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1988.
        • Belsey, CatherineCritical Practice.  London: Methuen, 
        • Bennett, Andrew, and Nicholas Royle.  An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory.  Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, 1999.
        • Bertens, Hans.  Literary Theory: the Basics.  London: Routledge, 2001.
        • Booker, M. Keith.  A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1995.
        • Bressler, Charles E.  Literary Criticism: an Introduction to Theory and Practice.  Upper Saddle River, NJ.: Prentice Hall, 1994.
        • Butler, Christopher.  Interpretation, Deconstruction, Ideology: an Introduction to Some Current Issues in Literary Theory.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1984.

        • Carlson, Marvin.  Theories of Theatre.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1984.

        • Crane, R. S.  "The Languages of Contemporary Criticism."  The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1953.  80-114.

        • Crane, R. S.  "The Multiplicity of Critical Languages."  The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1953.  3-38.

        • Culler, Jonathan.  The Literary in Theory.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 2006.
        • Culler, Jonathan.  Literary Theory: a Very Short Introduction.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.
        • Culler, Jonathan.  Framing the Sign: Criticism and its Institutions.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1988.
        • Cunningham, Valentine.  Reading After Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
        • Daiches, David.  Critical Approaches to Literature.  New York: Norton, 1956.
        • Dobie, Ann B.  Theory into Practice: an Introduction to Literary Criticism.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2008.
        • Eagleton, Terry.  Literary Theory: an Introduction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1983.
        • Felski, Rita.  Uses of Literature.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.

        • Green, Keith, and Jill LeBihan Critical Theory and Practice: a Coursebook.  London: Routledge, 1995.
        • Guerin, Wilfred.  A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1998.
        • Habib, M. A. R.  A History of Literary Theory and Criticism from Plato to the Present.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
        • Hall, Donald E.  Literary and Cultural Theory: from Basic Principles to Advanced Applications.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000.
        • Harland, Richard.  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.
        • Harris, Wendell V.  "Criticism."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  49-55.
        • Harris, Wendell V.  "Interpretation."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  172-175.
        • Harris, Wendell V.  "Poetics."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  410-416.  288-291.
        • Harris, Wendell V.  "Theory."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  410-416.
        • Hawthorn, Jeremy.  Unlocking the Text: Fundamental Issues in Literary Theory.  London Arnold, 1988.
        • Hogan, Patrick Colm.  Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature.  Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 2000.
        • Klages, Mary.  Literary Theory: a Guide for the Perplexed.  London: Continuum, 2007.

        • Leitch, Vincent.  Theory Matters.  London: Routledge, 2003.

        • Leitch, Vincent American Literary Criticism: from the Thirties to the Nineties.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988 
        • Lynn, Steven Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory.  Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1998.
        • McKeon, Richard.  "Philosophic Bases of Art and Criticism."  1943-1944.  Rpt. in Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern.  Ed. R. S. Crane.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.  Abridged Ed., 1957. 

        • Newton, K. M.  Interpreting the Text: a Critical Introduction to Literary Theory.  Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.  

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