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
 

 

DIALOGICAL (BAKHTINIAN) LITERARY THEORY


SUB-PAGES

Philosophers / Theorists:

Feminist:

Post-colonial:


SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Theory:
    • Criticism:
      • Bialostosky, Don H.  Wordsworth, Dialogics, and the Practice of Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1992.
      • Bialostosky, Don H.  Making Tales: Wordsworth's Narrative Experiments.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.
      • Booker, M. Keith.  Flann O'NBrien, Bakhtin, and Menippean Satire.  Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1995.
      • Bristol, Michael.  "Carnival and the Institutions of Theatre in Elizabethan England."  ELH 50 (1983): 637-654.
      • Bristol, Michael.  Carnival and Theater: Plebeian Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England
      • Castle, Terry.  Masquerade and Civilization: the Carnivalesque in Eighteenth Century English Culture and Fiction.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1986.
      • Farrell, John P.  "Reading the Text of Community in Wuthering Heights."  ELH 56.1 (1989): 173-208.

      • Harris, Wendell V.  "Bakhtinian Double-Voicing in Dickens and Eliot."  ELH 57 (1990): 445-458.
      • Hitchcock, Peter.  Dialogics of the Oppressed.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993.
      • Knowles, Ronald, ed.  Shakespeare and Carnival: After Bakhtin.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998.
      • Lodge, David.  After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism.  London: Routledge, 1990.
      • Macovski, Michael.  Dialogue and Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.

      • Montgomery, Michael.  Carnivals and Commonplaces: Bakhtin's Chronotope, Cultural Studies, and Film.  1993.

      • Stallybrass, Pete, and Allon White.  The Politics and Poetics of Transgression.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986.

      • Stam, Robert.  Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992.
      • Wesling, Donald.  Bakhtin and the Social Moorings of Poetry.  Philadelphia: Bucknell UP, 2003.
      • White, Allon.  Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing: Collected Essays and Autobiography.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.

On-Line:

  •  

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • See those listed under Dialogism

    • Theory:

      • Bennett, Tony.  "Bakhtin's Historical Poetics."  Formalism and Marxism.  London: Routledge, 1989.

      • 75-92.
    • Criticism:

On-Line:

WWW GATEWAYS

  •  

See also the primary and secondary sources listed under

 


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