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

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Popular Culture

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

HUMAN BEING / HUMAN NATURE (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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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: THE NATURAL SCIENCES:

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

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ASSOCIATIONS

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CONFERENCES

2008:

2007:

  • Faith, Myth and Literary Creation since 1850, Lille Catholic University, Lille, France May 18-19
  • Anglo-German Mythologies in Literature, the Visual Arts and Cultural Theory, Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, Queen Mary, University of London, April 25-27

2006:

  • Literature, Theory and Criticism: the Critical Writings of 20th and 21st Century Writers, Société d' Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines (SEAC), Université Montpellier III, France, October 20-21

  • Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Mansfield College, Oxford, September 18-21

  • Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of Influence, Department of English, School of Arts, Brunel University, July 12-15

  • Phenomenology and Modernism, Maison Française d'Oxford, June 24

  • Legacies of Modernism: the After-life of Modernism from an Art Theoretical, Art Historical and Philosophical Point of View, Trinity College, University of Oxford, June 9

2005:

  • Consequentiality: Mythology, Theology, Ontology, Sydney, July 11-13

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2002:

2001:

2000:

COURSES

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PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

Modernists:

Myth Critics:

New Critics:

New York Intellectuals:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • General:

      • Stallman, Robert Wooster, ed.  Critiques and Essays in Criticism, 1920-1948.  New York: Ronald Press, 1949.

    • Modernism:
      • Bentley, Eric, ed.  The Importance of Scrutiny.  New York: New York UP, 1948.
      • Faulkner, Peter, ed.  A Modernist Reader: Modernism in England, 1910-1930.  London: Batsford, 1986.

      • Kolocotroni, Vassiliki, Jane Goldman, and Olga Taxidou, eds.  Modernism: an Anthology of Sources and Documents.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998.

      • Waugh, Patricia, ed.  Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature.  London: Arnold, 1997.

    • Myth Criticism:

      • Miranda, Pierre, ed.  Mythology: Selected Readings.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.

      • Rehnolds, Frank, and David Tracy, eds.  Myth and Philosophy.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1990.

      • Vickery, John B., ed.  Myth and Literature: Contemporary Theory and Practice.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1966.

    • New Criticism:

      • Ransom, John Crowe, ed.  The Kenyon Critics: Studies in Modern Literature from the Kenyon Review.  1951.

    • New York Intellectuals:

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • General:

    • Modernism:
      • Lubbock, Percy.  The Craft of Fiction  New York: Viking, 1921. 
        • "The Craft of Fiction: Picture, Drama, and Point of View."  Approaches to the Novel: Materials for a Poetics.  Ed. Robert Scholes.  San Francisco: Chandler, 1966.  245-271. 
    • Myth Criticism:

      • Barber, C. L.  Shakespeare's Festive Comedy: a Study of Dramatic Form and its Relation to Social Custom.  1959.

      • Booker, Christopher.  The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories.  London: Continuum, 2005.

      • Burkert, Walter.  Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1979.

      • Bush, Douglas.  Mythology and the Romantic Tradition in English Poetry.  1937.

      • Chase, Richard.  Quest for Myth.  1946.

      • Cook, Arthur B.  Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion.  3 vols.  1914-40.

      • Coupe, LaurenceMyth.  London: Routledge, 1997.

      • Csapo, Eric.  Theories of Mythology.  2005.

      • Doty, William G.  Mythography: the Study of Myths and Rituals.  1986.

      • Evans-Pritchard, Edward.  Theories of Primitive Religion.  1965.

      • Feldman, B., and R. D. Richardson.  The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860.  London: , 1975.

      • Fontenrose, Joseph.  The Ritual Theory of Myth.  1966.

      • Hyman, Stanley Edgar.  "The Ritual View of Myth and the Mythic."  Myth and Literature: Contemporary Theory and Practice.  Ed. John Vickery.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1966.

      • Kirk, G. S.  Myth: its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures.  Cambridge: CUP, 1970.

      • Knight, G. Wilson.  The Wheel of Fire.  1930.

      • MacCaffrey, Isabel.  Paradise Lost as 'Myth'.  1959.

      • Segal, Robert  A.  "The Myth-Ritualist Theory of Religion."  Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 19 (1980): .

      • Thomson, George.  Aeschylus and Athens: a Study in the Social Origins of Drama.  1941.

      • Versnel, H. S.  "What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander: Myth and Ritual, Old and New."  Approaches to Greek Mythology.  Ed. Lowell Edmunds.  1989.

      • Weston, Jessie L.  From Ritual to Romance.  1920.

    • New Criticism:

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    • New York Intellectuals:

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    • Modernism:

    • Myth Criticism:
    • New Criticism:

    • New York Intellectuals:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • General:
      • Litz, A. Walton, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey, eds.  Modernism and the New Criticism.  Vol. 7 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 2000.
      • Wolfreys, Julian, ed.  Modern North American Criticism and Theory.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006.
    • Modernism:
    • Myth Criticism:

      • Calder, William M., ed.  The Cambridge Ritualists Reconsidered: Proceedings of the First Oldfather Conference, Held on the Campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign April 27-30, 1989.  Atlanta: Scholar's Press, 1991.

      • McCune, Marjorie, Tucker Orbison, and Philip Withim, eds.  The Blinding of Proteus: Perspectives on Myth and the Literary Process.  Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1980.

    • New Criticism:
      • Kaplan, Charles, ed.  The Overwrought Urn.  New York: Pegasus, 1969.
    • New York Intellectuals:

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • General:
      • Baldick, Chris.  "Beyond the New Criticism: 1945-1968."  Criticism and Literary Theory: 1890 to the PresentLondon: Longman, 1996.  116-160.
      • Baldick, Chris.  Criticism and Literary Theory: 1890 to the PresentLondon: Longman, 1996.
      • Baldick, Chris.  The Social Mission of English Criticism.  London: Longman, 1983.
      • Fekete, John.  The Critical Twilight: Explorations in the Ideology of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.
      • Leitch, Vincent.  American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Nineties.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988 
      • Lentricchia, Frank.  After the New Criticism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.
      • O'Connor, William Van.  An Age of Criticism, 1900 - 1950.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.
      • Pritchard, J. P.  Criticism in America.  Norman, OK: Pilgrim Press, 1956.
      • Stovall, Floyd, and Harry H. Clark.  The Development of American Literary Criticism.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina, 1955.

      • Sutton, Walter.  Modern American Criticism.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1963.

      • Webster, Grant.  The Republic of Letters: a History of Postwar American Criticism.  1979.

      • Wellek, René.  American Criticism, 1900-1950.  Vol. 6 of A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950.  8 Vols.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.
    • Modernism:

      • Baldick, Chris.  "The Modernist Revolution: 1918-1945."  Criticism and Literary Theory: 1890 to the PresentLondon: Longman, 1996.  64-115.
      • Harland, Richard.  "Anglo-American New Criticism, 1900-1960."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  166-199.
      • Harland, Richard.  "Modernism and the Avant-Garde."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  113-124.
      • Harland, Richard.  "Naturalism, Symbolism and Modernism."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  96-124.
      • Levenson, Michael.  A Genealogy of Modernism: a Study of English Literary Doctrine, 1908-1922.  Cambridge: CUP, 1984.
      • Lukacs, Georg.  "The Ideology of Modernism."  1957. 
        • The Meaning of Contemporary RealismTrans. John and Necke Mander.  London: Merlin, 1962.  17-46.
      • Meisel, Perry.  The Myth of the Modern: a Study in British Literature and Criticism after 1850.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.
      • Schwartz, Sanford.  The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth Century Thought.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1985.

      • Symons, Julian.  Makers of the New: the Revolution in Literature, 1912-1939.  London: Andre Deutsch, 1987.
    • Myth Criticism:

      • Ackerman, Robert.  The Myth and Ritual School: J. G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists.  New York: Garland, 1991.

      • Ackerman, Robert.  “Fortunes Of Cambridge: Myth And Ritual in Anglo-American Criticism.”  Social Science Information 15.6 (1976): 919-928.

      • Arlen, Shelley.  The Cambridge Ritualists: An Annotated Bibliography of the Works by and About Jane Ellen Harrison, Gilbert Murray, Francis M. Cornford, and Arthur Bernard CookMetuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990.

      • Brooker, Christopher.  The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories.  London: Continuum, 2005.

      • Doty, William G.  Mythography: the Study of Myth and Ritual.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1982.

      • Falck, Colin.  Myth, Truth and Literature.  1989.

      • Gould, Eric.  Mythical Intentions in Modern Literature.  1981.

      • Harland, Richard.  "Myth Criticism and Northrop Frye."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  194-199.

      • Kirk, G. S.  Myth: its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures.  1970.

      • Leitch, Vincent B.  "Myth Criticism."  American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  115-147.

      • Manganaro, Marc.  Myth, Rhetoric, and the Voice of Authority: a Critique of Frazer, Eliot, Frye, and Campbell.  1992.

      • Nash, Christopher.  "Myth and Modern Literature."  The Context of English Literature, 1900-1930.  Ed. Michael Bell.  London: Methuen, 1980.  160-185.

      • Vickery, John B.  Myths and Texts, Strategies of Incorporation and Displacement.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1983.

      • Vickery, John B.  Robert Graves and the White Goddess.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1972.

    • New Criticism:
      • Arac, Jonathan.  "Coleridge and New Criticism Reconsidered: Repetition and Exclusion."  Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies.  New York: Columbia UP, 1987.  81-95.
      • Bové, Paul.  Intellectuals in Power: a Genealogy of Critical Humanism.  1986.
      • Bradbury, John M.  The Fugitives: a Critical Account.  1951.
      • Cowan, Louise.  The Southern Critics: an Introduction to the Criticism of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks, and Andrew Lytle.  Dallas: Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 1997.
      • Cowan, Louise.  The Fugitive Group.  1959.
      • Daiches, David Critical Approaches to Literature:
        • "The Proper Sphere of Poetry" (143-157)
        • "The Poet and his Medium" (158-168)
      • De Man, Paul.  "New Criticism and Nouvelle Critique."  Preuves 188 (October 1966): 29-37. 
        • "Form and Intent in the American New Criticism."  Critique (1954): . 

          • Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism.  2nd Ed.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1983.  20-35.

      • De Man, Paul.  "L'Impasse de la critique formaliste."  Critique 109 (1956): 438-500. 

        • "The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism."  Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism.  2nd Ed.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1983.  229-245.

      • Mao, Douglas.  "The New Critics and the Text Object."  ELH 63 (1996): 227-254.
      • Douglas, Wallace.  "Deliberate Exiles: the Social Roots of Agrarian Poetics."  Aspects of American Poetry.  Ed. R. Ludwig Columbus.  1962.
      • Elton, William.  A Glossary of the New Criticism.  1949.
      • Forster, Richard.  The New Romantics: a Reappraisal of New Criticism.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1962.
      • Glicksburg, Charles.  American Literary Criticism, 1900 - 1950.  New York: Hendricks, 1951.
      • Graff, Gerald. 
      • Harland, Richard.  "Anglo-American New Criticism, 1900-1960."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  166-199.
      • Hartman, Geoffrey.  "Beyond Formalism."  Modern Language Notes 81 (1966): 542-557. 
        • Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958-1970.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1970.  42-57.
      • Hartman, Geoffrey.  "Structuralism: the Anglo-American Adventure."  Yale French Studies 37 - 37 (1966): 148-168. 
        • Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958-1970.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1970.  3-23.
      • Holman, C. Hugh.  "Literature and Culture: the Fugitive Agrarians."  Social Forces 37 (1958): .
      • Jancovich, Mark.  The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
      • Krieger, Murray.  The New Apologists for Poetry.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1956.
      • Leitch, Vincent.  "The 'New Criticism.'"  American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Nineties.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  24-59.
      • Malvasi, Mark G.  The Unregenerate South: the Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1997.
      • Robey, David"Anglo-American New Criticism."  Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative IntroductionEd. Ann Jefferson and David Robey.  London: Batsford, 1982.  65-83.
      • Szili, Joseph.  "The New Criticism."  Literature and its Interpretations.  1979.

      • Thompson, E. M.  Russian Formalism and Anglo-American New CriticismThe Hague: Mouton, 1971.

      • Tyson, Lois.  "New Criticism."  Critical Theory Today.  117-152.
      • Young, Thomas Daniel.  The New Criticism and After.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1976.
    • New York Intellectuals:

      • Jumonville, Neil.  Critical Crossings: the New York Intellectuals in Postwar America.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1991.

      • Laskin, David.  Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal among the New York Intellectuals.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001.

      • Wald, Alan M.  The New York Intellectuals: the Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s.  Charlotte: U of North Carolina P, 1987.

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