HISTORY

 

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

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Classical Literature

 

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

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Medieval Literature

 

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

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Renaissance Literature

 

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

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
bullet Literature
bullet Northern Europe:
bullet Literature
bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
bullet Literature
bullet Italy:
bullet Literature
bullet Spain:
bullet Literature
bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
bullet Literature
bullet Germany:
bullet Literature
bullet UK and Eire:
bullet Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

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Architecture

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Film

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Literature:

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Audience

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Author

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Literary Form & Genre:

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Drama

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Poetry

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Prose

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Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity

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Metaliterature

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Representation

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Music

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, & Logic

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Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory

 

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

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Psychology

 

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Gender

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Race

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Sexuality

 

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

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Anthropology

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Cultural Studies

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Economics

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Human Geography

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Law

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Politics

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Sociology

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

PRIMARY SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING

WWW GATEWAYS

 

 

LITERATURE: PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE / LITERARY THEORY


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ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

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

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2000:

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Annual:

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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.
      • Dukore, Bernard, ed.  Dramatic Theory: Greeks to Grotowski.  
      • 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., and G. W. Allen, eds.  Literary Criticism: Plato to Croce.  2 Vols.  New York: American Book Co., 1940-1941.
      • 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.
      • 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.
      • Lodge, David, ed. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.  London: Longman, 1972.
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      • Newton, K. M., ed. Twentieth Century Literary Theory: a Reader.  New York: St. Martin's, 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.
      • 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:
      • Altieri, Charles.  Act and Quality: a Theory of Literary Meaning and Humanistic Understanding.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1981.
      • Currie, Gregory.  The Nature of Fiction.  Cambridge: CUP, 1990.
      • Dasenbrock, Reed Way.  Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2001.
      • Ellis, John.  The Theory of Criticism: a Logical Analysis.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1977.

      • 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:

      • 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.
      • Smith, Barbara Hernstein.  Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1988.

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

      • Collier, Peter, and Helga Geyer-Ryan, eds.  Literary Theory Today.  Cambridge: Polity, 1990.
      • Coyle, Martin, et al., eds.  Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism.  
      • 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.  The 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.
      • Groden, Michael, and Martin Kreiswirth, eds.  The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.
      •  Rev. Ed. 2005.
      • 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.
      • 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.

      • 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,  .

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

      • Salusinsky, Imre, ed.  Criticism in Society: Interviews With Jacques Derrid, 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.  Glossalalia: an Alphabet of Critical Keywords.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2003.
      • 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