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
 

 

ANALYTIC AESTHETICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE


SUB-PAGES

Philosophers:

Feminist:

Post-colonial:


ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2007:

2006:

  • The Metaphysics of Art: Themes from the work of Jerrold Levinson, Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, March 17

2005:

2004:

2003:

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2002:

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2001:

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2000:

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SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Dickie, George, Sclafani, R. J., and Roblin, Ronald, eds.  Aesthetics: a Critical Introduction

    • Kieran, Matthew, ed.  Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
    • Lamarque, Peter, and S. H. Olsen, eds.  Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: the Analytical Tradition.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
    • Lamarque, Peter, ed.  Philosophy and Fiction: Essays in Literary Aesthetics.  Aberdeen: Aberdeen UP, 1983.
  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Budd, Malcolm.  Values of Art: Pictures, Poetry and Music.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995.
    • 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.
    • Dickie, George.  Aesthetics: an Introduction.  Indianapolis: Pegasus, 1971.
    • Dickie, George.  Introduction to Aesthetics: an Analytic Approach

    • Dickie, George.  The Art Circle.
    • Dickie, George.  Art and the Aesthetic: an Institutional Analysis.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1974.
    • Lamarque, Peter.  Fictional Points of View.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996.
    • Lamarque, Peter, and Stein Haugom Olsen.  Truth, Fiction and Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.
    • Levinson, Jerrold.  Music in the Moment.  1998.
    • Levinson, Jerrold.  The Pleasures of Aesthetics.  1996.
    • Levinson, Jerrold.  Music, Art, and Metaphysics.  1990.
    • Lopes, Dominic McIver.  Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.
    • 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.
    • Scruton, Roger.  Art and Imagination: a Study in the Philosophy of Mind.  London: Methuen, 1974.

On-Line:

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Lamarque, Peter, ed.  Aesthetics in Britain.  Special Issue.  British Journal of Aesthetics (2000).

  • Selected Individual Works:

On-Line:

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UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

WWW GATEWAYS

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