LITERARY THEORY

I use the term Literary Theory to refer to interpretive approaches that emphasise the socio-historical context and rhetorical dimensions of literature, it constituent elements, its effect, etc.

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Philosophers / Theorists:

ASSOCIATIONS

• Asociacion Espanola de Teoria y Literatura Comparada

• Society for Critical Exchange

• Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics

CONFERENCES

2008:

2007:

2006:

• Future Literature, Future Art: Probing the Boundaries of Criticism, Cracow, Poland, November 30-December 2
• Textual Scholarship and the Material Book: Comparative Approaches, European Society for Textual Scholarship, Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, November 23-25
• Unpacking the Library: Literatures and their Archives, English Colloquia Series, University of Westminister, June 10
• Con/texts of Invention, Society for Critical Exchange, Case Western Reserve University, April 20-23
• New Directions in Critical Theory, University of Arizona, April 6

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

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:

• Theory Now: a One Day Conference in Memory of Antony Easthope, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, October 4

• Reconciling "Anglistik": Didactic Strategies for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Universität Trier, Germany, October 2-4

• Radicality, Criticism and Reality: Considering the Past, the Present and the Future of Challenging Critiques, Centre for Critical Practice, School of English, University of Central England, September 27

• New Languages for Criticism: In(ter)discipline, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, September 19-21

• Whither Theory?  Université de Paris X (Nanterre) and the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales, Cardiff, June 19-21

2002:

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

2001:

2000:

Annual:

COURSES

• University of Alberta:
  • Literary Theory (Zwicker)
  • Literary Theory (Rak)
• University of Birmingham: Contemporary Critical Theory
• Brandeis University: History of Literary Criticism (Rind)
• Brock University:
  • Introduction to Literary Theory (Lye)
  • Contemporary Theory (Lye)
• University of Cambridge:
  • MPhil in European Literature: Core Course in Critical Theory
  • Modern Critical Theory
• Centenary College: Literary Theory and Criticism: From Plato to the Present (Hendricks)
• University of Colorado, Boulder:
  • Introduction to Literary Theory (Klages)
  • Introduction to Literary Theory (Morton)
  • Modern Critical Thought (Klages)
• Columbia University:
  • Introduction to Theory (Damrosch)
  • Intro to Theory (Gourgouris)
• University of Dundee: Modern Literary Theory (Newton)
• University of East Anglia: Literature and Philosophy (Campbell): 2005 /
• Essex University: Approaches to Texts
• Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan: Literary Criticism Databank
• University of Georgia: Contemporary Literary Theory (Cole)
• Georgian Southern University: Criticism and Theory (Thomson)
• University of Glasgow: Literary Theory

• Goucher University: Critical Methods (Sanders)

• Harvard University:
  • Literary Theory in the Life of Literature (Bhabha)
  • Literary Theory
  • Major Critical Approaches
• Hong Kong University: Literary and Cultural Theory (Wang)
• Humboldt State University: Critical Theory (Eldredge)

• Kalamazoo College: Philosophy and Literature (Latiolais): 2004

• Université Laval: 
  • History of Literary Criticism (Gilchrist)
  • Methodes Critiques (Saint-Gelais)
• Lawrence University: Contemporary Critical Theory (Spurgin)
• University of London:
  • Birbeck College: Postgraduate Seminar in Critical Theory (Connor)
  • Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies: European Literary and Cultural Theory
  • King's College: Reading Practice / Reading Theory
  • University College: MA Core Course in Literary Theory
• University of Manchester: Critical Theory (Littler)
• Mansfield University: Theory of Literature (Ulrich)
• University of Massachussetts, Dartmouth: Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice (Kamm)
• McGill University: Critique contemporaine et théorie (Lane-Mercier)
• Mesa State College: Critical Reading: Introduction to Theory and Criticism (Laga)
• National University of Singapore: Critical Theory (Phillips and Goh)
• Monash University:
  • Critical Theory: an Approach (Benjamin)
  • Critical Theory: a Survey (Milner)
  • Critical Theory: a Theorist (Ross)
  • Introduction to Critical Theory (Benjamin)
• University of New Mexico: Literary Criticism and Theory (Harrison)
• State University of New York:
  • Albany: Teoria y Critica Literaria y Cultural (Nagy-Zekmi)
  • Buffalo: 
    • Legacies of Critical Theory (Irlam)
    • Introduction to Critical Theory (Irlam)
• North Carolina State University: Contemporary Literary Theory (Wyrick)
• University of Oklahoma: 
  • Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (Leitch)
  • Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism (Leitch)
• University of Oregon: The History of Literary Criticism (Crosswhite)
• University of Pennsylvania:
  • Introduction to Literary Theory
  • Introduction to Literary Theory (English)
  • Literary Theory (Richman)
  • Literary Theory (Copeland)
• University of Queensland: 
  • Literary Theory And Criticism A
  • Literary Theory And Criticism B
  • Literary Theory and Criticism C
• Rice University: The History of Literary Theory (Morris)
• University of Southern California: Introduction to Literary Theory (Pinkus)
• Southern Methodist University: Contemporary Literary Theory (Foster)
• St. Francis Xavier University: Contemporary Critical Theory (Moynagh)
• University of Stirling: Critical Theory (Evans)
• University of Sussex: Semiotics, Ideology and Literature (Roberts)
• Syracuse University:
  • Critical Theory (Klaver)
  • Introduction to Critical Theory (Lambert)
  • Reading and Interpretation (Klaver)
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville: 
  • History of Literary Theory (Anderson)
  • Introduction to Critical Theory (Anderson)

• University of Texas, Arlington: Criticism: the Tradition (Frank)

• Vanderbilt University: Introduction to Literary Theory (Clayton)
• University of Wales, Swansea: Introduction to Contemporary Critical Theory

• University of Washington: History and Theory of Criticism (Halmi)

• Wilfrid Laurier University:
  • Literary Theory (Haslam)
  • Advanced Literary and Cultural Theory (Haslam)

JOURNALS

• Aristos: Online Review of the Arts

• Boundary 2 (1972 - )

• Critical Inquiry (1974 - )

• Critical Survey

• Diacritics: a Review of Contemporary Criticism (1971 - )

• LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory

• Mosaic: a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature

• October

• Paragraph: Journal of the Modern Critical Theory Group

• Philosophy and Literature (also here)

• Poetics Today: Journal for the Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication (formerly Poetics and the Theory of Literature -- PTL)

• Poétique

• Qui Parle: an Interdisciplinary Journal

• SubStance: a Review of Theory and Criticism (also here)

• SYMPLOKE: a Journal of Comparative Theory and Literature

• Textual Practice (1987 - )

• Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities (1987 - )

• Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

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:

  • 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, Anthony, and McGowan, eds.  A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader.  London: Taylor and Francis, 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.
  • 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.
  • Wolfreys, Julian. ed. Literary Theories: a Reader and Guide.  New York: New York UP, 1999.

• Selected Individual Works:

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

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • 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, Terms.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1993.

  • Malpas, Simon, and Paul Wake, eds.  Routledge Companion to Critical Theory.  London: Routledge, 2006.

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

  • Preminger, Alex, and T. V. F. Brogan, eds.  Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.  Princeton: Princeton UP, .
  • 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 Theory.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2002.  [pub. in USA as Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory.  New York: Continuum, 2002.]
  • Wolfreys, Julian, ed.  Introducing Criticism at the 21st Century.  Edinburgh: 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:

  • Abrams, M. H.  A Glossary of Literary Terms.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, .
  • 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, .
  • Baldick, Chris.  The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms.  Oxford: OUP, 2001.
  • 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, Catherine. Critical 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.

  • Brooker, Peter.  A Glossary of Cultural Theory.  London: Arnold, .

  • 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.

  • Castle, Gregory.  The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

  • 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.

  • Cuddon, J. A.  Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory.  New York: Penguin USA, 1992.
  • 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.
  • Eagleton, Terry.  Literary Theory: an Introduction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1983.

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Harland, Richard.  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.
  • Harris, Wendell V.  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992.
  • Harris, Wendell V.  "Criticism."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992.  49-55.
  • Harris, Wendell V.  "Interpretation."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992.  172-175.
  • Harris, Wendell V.  "Poetics."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992.  410-416.  288-291.
  • Harris, Wendell V.  "Theory."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992.  410-416.
  • Hawthorn, Anthony.  Unlocking the Text: Fundamental Issues in Literary Theory.  
  • Hogan, Patrick Colm.  Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature.  Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 2000.

  • 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.

  • Macey, David.  Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory.  New York: Penguin USA, 2002.

  • 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. 

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

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

  • Newton, K. M.  In Defence of Literary Interpretation: Theory and Practice.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1986.

  • Ray, William.  Literary Meaning: from Phenomenology to Deconstruction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.
  • Rory, Ryan, and Susan Van Zyl.  An Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory.  Johannesburg: , 1982.
  • Saintsbury, George.  A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe.  3 Vols.  Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900 - 1904.
  • Saunders, Ann.  An Introduction to Research in English Literary History. New York: Macmillan, 1952.
  • Scholes, Robert.  Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.
  • Scott, Wilbur.  Five Approaches to Literary Criticism: an Arrangement of Contemporary Critical Essays.  New York: Collier Macmillan, 1962.
  • Selden, Raman.  Practising Theory and Reading Literature: an Introduction.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1989.
  • Selden, Raman.  A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1985.

  • Sparshott, F. E.  The Concept of Criticism.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1967.

  • Stamiris, Yiannis.  Main Currents in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: a Critical Study.  New York: Whitson, 1986.

  • Tyson, Lois.  Critical Theory Today: a User-Friendly Guide.  New York: Garland, 1998.

  • Watson, George.  The Literary Critics: a Study of English Descriptive Criticism.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.
  • Wellek, René.  Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1970.
  • Wellek, René.  Concepts of Criticism.  Ed. Stephen G. Nichols, Jr.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1963.
  • Wellek, René.  A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950.  8 Vols.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1965.
    • French, Italian, and Spanish Criticism, 1900-1950.  Vol. 8.  1993.
    • German, Russian, and Eastern European Criticism, 1900-1950.  Vol. 6.  1991.
    • American Criticism, 1900-1950.  Vol. 6.  1986.
    • English Criticism, 1900-1950.  Vol. 5.  1986.
    • The Later Nineteenth Century.  Vol. 4.  1965.
    • The Age of Transition.  Vol. 3.  1965.
    • The Romantic Age.  Vol. 2.  1955.
    • The Later Eighteenth Century.  Vol. 1.  1955.
  • Williams, Jeffrey.  The War against Theory.  London: Routledge, .
  • Williams, Jeffrey.  "Packaging Theory."  College English 56.3 (1994): 280-299.
  • Williams, Raymond.  Keywords: a Vocabulary of Culture and Society.  London: Fontana, 1976.
  • Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks.  Literary Criticism: a Short History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.
  • Wolfreys, Julian.  Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
  • Wolfreys, Julian.  Introducing Literary Theories: a Guide and Glossary.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2001.
  • Wolfreys, Julian, Ruth Robbins, and Kenneth Womack.  Key Concepts in Literary Theory.  Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
  • Wolfreys, Julian.  Readings: Acts of Close Reading in Literary Theory.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2000.
  • Zima, Peter V.  The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory.  London: Athlone, 1999.

On-Line:

• Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Etc.:

  • Belton, Robert: Words of Art (University of British Columbia, Okanagan College)

  • Henderson, Greig E., and Christopher Brown: Glossary of Literary Theory (University of Toronto)

  • Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory Online

  • Literary Encyclopedia

• Surveys, Introductions, Etc.:

  • Beaugrande, Robert de: Critical Discourse: a Survey of Literary Theorists

  • Bedford St. Martin's Press: Critical Approaches

  • Brewton, Vince:  Literary Theory (Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy)

  • Bryson, Michael: Literary Criticism from the Dead

  • Burris, Skylar Hamilton: Literary Criticism: an Overview of Approaches

  • Delahoyde, Michael: Critical Theory

  • Felluga, Dino: Introductory Guide to Literary and Critical Theory

  • Fish, Tom, and Jennifer Perkins: The LitCrit Web

  • Garcia Landa, Jose Angel: A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

  • Hedges, Warren: Timeline of Critical Paradigms

  • Klages, Mary: Humanism and Literary Theory

  • Lang, Chris: A Brief History of Literary Theory

  • Lemelin, Jean-Marc: Bibliographie de Theorie de la litterature et / ou de l'art

  • Pasupathi Vimala C.: Specialized Approaches to Reading and Writing about Literature

  • Potter, Michele: Hypertext Structuration of Literary Criticism

  • Rouzie, Albert: Literary Criticism Tables

  • Siegel, Kristi: Introduction to Modern Literary Theory

  • Vavra, Ed: Bibliography on Literary Theory and Criticism

  • Wellek, Rene: Literary Criticism Dictionary of the History of Ideas

  • Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

    • Arts

    • Critical Theory

    • Literary Criticism

    • Literary Theory

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Africa:

• University of South Africa (UNISA): Department of Afrikaans and Theory of Literature: Theory of Literature Programme

Asia:

• Taiwan:

  • Fu Jen University: Department of English: Programme in Literary Criticism

Australasia:

• Australia:

  • Australian National University: Programme in Cultural and Critical Studies (BA in Cultural and Critical Studies)

  • Maquarie University: Department of Critical and Cultural Studies
  • Monash University: Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

  • University of Queensland: Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies

• New Zealand:

Canada:

• McMaster University: Department of English: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Programme
• Université de Montréal: Département de littérature comparée: PhD (littérature): Option--Théorie et épistémologie de la littérature
• Trent University: Centre for the Study of Theory, Culture and Politics (MA in Methodologies for the Study of Western History and Culture)
• University of Western Ontario: Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism (MA and PhD in Theory and Criticism)

Europe:

• Central Europe:
  • Slovenia:

    • University of Ljubjlana: Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory

• Northern Europe:
  • Sweden:
    • Blekinge Institute of Technology: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences: Graduate Summer School of Literature and Literary Theory
• Southern Europe:
  • Spain:

    • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Estudis Teoria de la Literatura i Literatura Comparada

    • Universidad de Granada: Departamento de Linguistica y Teoria de la Literatura: Area de Theoria de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada

    • Universidade de Santiago de Compostela: Departamento de Literatura Espanola, Teoria da Literatura, y Literatura Comparada: Area de Teoria da Literatura e Literatura Comparada

    • Universidad de Sevilla: Departamento de Lengua Española, Lingüistica y Teoría de la Literatura

• Western Europe:

  • Belgium:

    • Universiteit Antwerpen: Departement Wijsbegeerte: Centrum voor filosofie van de kunst en literatuur

  • France:

    • École des Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales (EHESS): Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL)

  • United Kingdom:

    • Eire:

      • University of Limerick: Mary Immaculate College: MA in Philosophy and Literature

    • England:

      • University of Birmingham:
        • MPhil in Contemporary Critical Theory (1997-2005)

        • MA - MPhil (B) in Cultural Inquiry (from 2005)

      • Brighton University: School of Historical and Critical Studies: MA in Cultural and Critical Theory
      • University of Cambridge: 
        • MPhil in Criticism and Culture
        • New Languages for Criticism
      • University of Essex:
        • Department of Literature, Film and Television Studies: Sociology of Literature Project
        • Department of Philosophy: BA Philosophy and Literature
      • University of London:
        • Birbeck College: MA in Cultural and Critical Studies
        • Goldsmiths College: MA in Contemporary Approaches to English Studies
        • King's College: MA in Critical Methodologies
      • Manchester Metropolitan University / University of Salford: Joint MA in Critical Theory: here or here
      • University College Northampton: Centre for Criticism and Culture (old site)
      • University of Nottingham: Postgraduate School of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies
      • Nottingham Trent University: Theory, Culture, and Society Centre (PhD in Theory)
      • University of Reading: MA in Critical Theory: the Body and Representation
      • University of Sussex: Department of English: MA in Critical Theory
      • University of Warwick: 
        • Department of Philosophy: Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature
          • BA in Philosophy and Literature
          • MA in Philosophy and Literature
          • PhD in Philosophy and Literature

    • Scotland:

    • Wales:

      • Cardiff University: Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies

Latin America:

• Argentina:

  • Universidad Nacional de Rosario: Centro de Estudios de Teoria y Critica Literaria

• Brazil:

  • Universidade de Brasilia: Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas

Middle East:

• Israel:

  • Tel Aviv University:

    • Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature 

    • Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics

USA:

• US News and World Report Graduate Literature Programmes Specialising in Theory: Rankings 2003
• University of California:
  • Berkeley: Department of Rhetoric
  • Davis: Critical Theory Program
  • Irvine: Critical Theory Institute: Critical Theory Emphasis
  • Los Angeles:

    • Department of English: PhD Reading Lists: Literary Theory Reading List

    • Paris Program in Critical Theory
  • Santa Barbara: 
    • Department of English: General Theory List
    • Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture
  • Santa Cruz: Graduate Program in History of Consciousness
• University of Central Florida: Critical Theory / Cultural Studies Program
• Cornell University: Summer School of Criticism and Theory
• Grinnell College: Philosophy and Literature (Schrift)
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign:
  • Department of Comparative Literature: Literary Theory and Criticism Reading List
  • Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
• Indiana University: Department of Comparative Studies
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Literature and Criticism Doctoral Programme
• Kalamazoo College: Interdisciplinary Studies in Philosophy and Literature
• University of Kansas: Philosophy and Literature Seminar
• University of Maryland: Graduate Certificate in Critical Theory

• Michigan State University: Literary and Critical Theory Reading List

• Mount St. Mary's College: Philosophy in Literature (McCutcheon)
• New York University: Poetics and Theory Program
• New York, State University of (SUNY):
  • Binghampton: 
    • Department of Comparative Literature: Doctoral Program in Philosophy, Literature and the Theory of Criticism
    • Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Program
  • Buffalo: Department of Comparative Literature: Critical Theory Option
  • Stony Brook: 
    • Department of Comparative Literature: Literary Theory and Criticism Reading List
    • Department of Philosophy:
      • Graduate Certificate Programme in Art and Philosophy
      • Undergraduate Research Track in Philosophy and Literature

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:

  • MA Exam Reading List

  • PhD Exams Reading Lists

• University of Notre Dame: Program in Philosophy and Literature
• University of Oregon: Centre for Critical Theory and Transnational Studies

• University of Oregon: Graduate Reading Lists

• Pennsylvania State University: Doctoral Minor in Literary Theory, Criticism, and Aesthetics
• University of Pennsylvania: Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program: Literary Theory Reading List
• Princeton University: Gauss Seminars in Criticism
• Purdue University:
  • English and Philosophy PhD Program
  • Theory and Cultural Studies (PhD Concentration in Theory and Cultural Studies)
• University of Southern Maine: Graduate Certificate in Theory, Literature, and Culture
• Stanford University:
  • Department of English: PHD Qualifying Exam Reading Lists
  • Program in Modern Thought and Literature
• State University of New York, Stony Brook:
  • PhD Literary Theory and Criticism Reading List or here
  • Undergraduate Research Track in Philosophy and Literature
• Swarthmore College: Concentration in Interpretive Theory
• Syracuse University: Department of English and Textual Studies
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Critical Theory Reading Group

• Texas A & M University: Qualifying Exam Reading List

• US Military Academy: Art, Philosophy and Literature
• University of Virginia: MA and PhD Oral Exam Reading Lists:
  • Theory and Criticism Reading List
  • Theory and Criticism Long Reading List
• University of Washington: PhD Program in Theory and Criticism
• University of Wisconsin: Critical Theory Reading List

WWW GATEWAYS

• Gannon, Thomas: TCG's Literary Criticism and Theory Page
• Janz, Bruce: Critical Theory Resources
• Lynch, Jack: Literary Resources: Theory
• McGill University: Sociocritique
• University of Palermo: Literary Universals Project (LitUP)
• Ryder, Martin: Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
• Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory Links
• Yahoo.Com: Critical Theory

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