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

 

 

METALITERATURE


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Feminist:

Post-colonial:


ASSOCIATIONS

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CONFERENCES

2008:

  • English Literature Today, University of Oxford, August 28-29

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COURSES

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JOURNALS

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PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:
    • Beaumont-Bissell, Elizabeth, ed.  The Question of Literature: the Place of the Literary in Contemporary Theory.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 2002.
    • Clark, Michael P., ed.  The Revenge of the Aesthetic: the Place of Literature in Theory Today.  Berkeley: U of California P, 2000.
    • Greenblatt, Stephen, and Giles Gunn, eds.  Redrawing the Boundaries: the Transformation of English and American Literary Studies.  New York: Modern Language Association, 1992.
    • Hernadi, Paul, ed.  What is Literature?  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.
    • Hernadi, Paul, ed.  The Horizon of Literature.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1982.
    • Kampf, Louis, and Paul Lauter, ed.  The Politics of Literature.  New York: Pantheon, 1972.
    • Shumway, David R., Craig Dionne, and Richard M. Ohmann, eds.  Disciplining English: Alternative Histories, Critical Perspectives.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.
    • Widdowson, Peter, ed.  Re-Reading English.  London: Methuen, 1982.
    • Ziarek, Krzysztof, and Seamus Dean, eds.  Future Crossings: Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2001.
  • Selected Individual Works:
    • Altieri, Charles.  "A Procedural Definition of Literature."  What is Literature?  Ed. Paul Hernadi.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.  62-78.
    • Bate, Walter Jackson.  "The Crisis in English Studies."  Harvard Magazine (Sept.-Oct. 1982): 41-53.
    • Bennison, Gary.  The Phenomenon of Literature.  The Hague: Mouton, 1975.
    • Bowie, Malcolm.  "What is Literature?"  Raritan 19 (1999): 15-26.
    • Cain, William E.  The Crisis in Criticism: Theory, Literature and Reform in English Studies.  
    • Chambers, Ross.  Loiterature.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999.
    • Elbow, Peter.  What Is English?.   New York: Modern Language Association, 1990.
    • Fiedler, Leslie.  What Was Literature?  Class Culture, Culture and Mass Society.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.
    • Gardner, Helen.  Literary Studies.  Oxford: OUP, 1966.
    • Graff, Gerald.  Professing Literature: an Institutional History.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987.  Rpt. 2008.
    • Graff, Gerald.  Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1979.
    • Griffith, Peter.  Literary Theory and English Teaching.  Philadelphia: Milton Keynes, 1987.
    • Harrison, G. B.  Profession of English.  New York: Doubleday, 1962.
    • Hirsch, E. D.  "What Isn't Literature?"  What is Literature?  Ed. Paul Hernadi.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.  24-34.
    • Kamuf, Peggy.  The Division of Literature, Or, the University in Deconstruction.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.

    • Kermode, Frank.  "Institutional Control of Interpretation."  Salmagundi 43 (1979): 72-86.
    • Leavis, F. R.  The Living Principle: 'English' as a Discipline of Thought.  1975.
    • Leavis, F. R.  English Literature in Our Time and the University.  1969.
    • Leavis, F. R.  Education and the University: a Sketch for an 'English School'.  Cambridge: CUP, 1943.  
    • Lee, Sidney.  "The Place of English Literature in the Modern University."  Elizabethan and Other Essays.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1929.  [1913]
    • MacCabe, Colin.  "Towards a Modern Trivium: English Studies Today."  Critical Quarterly 26.1-2 (1984): 69-86.
    • Markiewicz, Henryk.  "The Limits of Literature."  New Literary History 4 (1972): 5-14.
    • McMurtry, Jo.  English Language, English Literature: the Creation of an Academic Discipline.  London: Mansell, 1985.
    • Miller, J. Hillis.  On Literature.  London: Routledge, 2002.
    • Ohmann, Richard M.  Politics of Letters.  Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1987.
    • Ohmann, Richard M.  English in America: a Radical View of the Profession.  Oxford: OUP, 1976.
    • Palmer, D. J.  The Rise of English Studies.  Oxford: OUP, 1965.
    • Pollock, Thomas Clark.  The Nature of Literature.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1942.
    • Reiss, Timothy.  The Meaning of Literature.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992.
    • Scholes, Robert.  The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1999.
    • Shumway, David R.  Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, .
    • Watson, George.  The Discipline of English: a Guide to Critical Theory and Practice.  New York: Macmillan, 1978.
    • Wellek, René.  The Attack on Literature and Other Essays.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1982.

    • Wellek, René.  The Fall of Literature and Other Essays.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1982. 

    • Widdowson, Peter.  Literature.  London: Routledge, 1999.
    • Williams, Jeffrey J.  The Institution of Literature.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.
    • Woodring, Carl.  Literature: an Embattled Profession.  New York: Columbia UP, 1999.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Fiction."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  99-105.

    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Literature."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  193-199. 

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