CONTENTS


HISTORY

ANCIENT (CLASSICAL):
   Epicureanism
   Neoplatonism
   Pre-Socratics
   Pyrrhonian Skepticism
   Sophists
   Stoicism
      Literature & Literary Theory

MEDIEVAL (c.350-c.1400):
   Literature & Literary Theory


EARLY MODERN:
   Renaissance (c.1400-c.1600):
      Literature & Literary Theory

   17th & 18th Century (c.1600-c.1785):
      Literature & Literary Theory

19th CENTURY (c.1785-c.1890):
   Romanticisms & Neo-Romanticisms:
      German & Anglo-American Idealism
      Existentialism
         Literature & Literary Theory
   'Victorian' Positivism:
         Literature & Literary Theory

20th CENTURY:
   Analytic Philosophy:
      Logical Atomism
      Logical Positivism
      Ordinary Language
      Recent

         Aesthetics
   Anglo-American Modernisms:
      'High' Modernism
      Liberal Humanism
      Myth Criticism
      Neo-Aristotelianism
      New Criticism
   Continental Philosophy:
      Idealism:
            Literary Theory

      Marxism:
         Frankfurt School
            Literary Theory
      Phenomenology:
         Existentialism
         Hermeneutics
            Literary Theory

      Psychoanalysis:
         Literary Theory

            Object-Relations Theory
            Jungian Analytical Psychology:
               Literary Theory
      (Post-)Structuralisms:
         Deconstruction:
            Literary Theory

         Deleuzean Theory:
            Literary Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle):
            Literary Theory

         Foucauldian Theory:
            Literary Theory

         Semiotics / Structuralism:
            Literary Theory:
               Russian Formalism

         Structuralist Marxism:
            Literary Theory

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis:
            Literary Theory

   Pragmatism:
      Literary Theory


REGIONS

AFRICA AND AFRICAN DIASPORA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

ASIA:
      Central Asia
      East Asia (Chinese):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South Asia (Indian):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South-East Asia


AUSTRALASIA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CANADA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CARIBBEAN:
   Literature & Literary Theory

EUROPE
:
      Central Europe
      Eastern Europe:
         Russia:
            Literature & Literary Theory

      Northern Europe (Scandinavia):
         Literature & Literary Theory

      Southern Europe:
         Greece
            Literature & Literary Theory

         Italy
            Literature & Literary Theory

         Spain
            Literature & Literary Theory

      Western Europe:
         Eire
            Literature & Literary Theory
         France
            Literature & Literary Theory
         Germany
            Literature & Literary Theory
         UK:
            Scotland
            Wales
               Literature & Literary Theory

LATIN AMERICA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

MIDDLE EAST:
   Arabic/Islamic Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Israeli/Jewish Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory

USA
:
   Literature & Literary Theory
   African American:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Native American:
      Literature & Literary Theory


TOPICS

 

ARTS:
   Architecture
   Arts (Performing)
   Arts (Visual and Plastic)
   Film
   Literature:
      Audience
      Author
      Literary Form & Genre:
         Drama
         Poetry
         Prose
      Literary Historicism
      Lit. History, Intertextuality, Canonicity
      Metaliterature
      Literary Representation (Realism)

   Music
 

BEING


COMMUNICATION:
   Interpretation
   Language
        Linguistic Criticism/Literary Stylistics

   Reasoning: Logic, Rhetoric, Argument
 

EDUCATION

 

GEOGRAPHY & THE ENVIRONMENT:
   Ecocriticism

 

HUMAN BEING:
   Body:

      Gender (Feminist Theory)
      Race (Critical Race Theory)

      Sexuality (Queer Theory):

         Queer Critical Theory

   Mind:
     
Cognitive & Psychological Criticism

   Self:
      Writing the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY
 

MORALITY:

   Ethical Criticism
 

RELIGION:
   Religion and Literature


NATURAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY:
   Biology & Medical Sciences:

      Darwinist (Evolutionary) Criticism
   Chemistry

   Information Technology
   Mathematics
   
Physics

SOCIAL FORMATION
:

   Culture
   Economics
  
History
   Law

   Politics
   Society
 

SPORTS
 


GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS
CAREERS
CONFERENCES
JOURNALS
PHOTOS
PRIMARY SOURCES
SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING
WWW GATEWAYS

 


ALTERNATIVE STANDPOINTS

Feminist Theory:
   Aesthetics/ Critical Theory

Post-colonial Theory:
   Aesthetics / Critical Theory
 

 

SEXUALITY

Sex refers to the male and female duality of biology and reproduction.  Sexual intercourse, also called coitus, is the human form of copulation.  While its primary evolutionary purpose is the reproduction and continued survival of the human species, it can also be used for sexual pleasure exclusively. 

Sexuality refers to sexual behaviour in all sexual organisms.  Human sexuality refers to the expression of sexual sensation and related intimacy between human beings, as well as the expression of identity through sex and as influenced by or based on sex.  Human sexuality takes many forms and comprises a broad range of behaviour and processes, to which there are physiological, psychological, social, cultural, political, and spiritual or religious aspects, among others.  Human sexual behavior is the behaviours in which human beings engage when seeking sexual or relational partners, gaining approval of possible partners, forming relationships, showing affection, and mating.  Heterosexuality refers to sexual and romantic attraction between individuals of the opposite sex.  Homosexuality refers to sexual and romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex.  Bisexuality is the sexual orientation which refers to sexual and romantic desire for individuals of either sex.


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