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
PRAGMATIST LITERARY THEORY
SUB-PAGES
Philosophers / Theorists:
Wayne C. Booth (1921 - 2005) (see also Chicago School [Neo-Aristotelians] and Rhetoric)
Feminist:
African American:
SOURCES: PRIMARY
Off-Line:
Anthologies:
Mitchell, W. J. T., ed. Against Theory: Literary Study and the New Pragmatism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.
Selected Individual Works:
Rosenblatt, Louise. “The Transactional Theory of Reading and Writing.”
Rosenblatt, Louise. The Reader, the Text, the Poem: the Transactional Theory of the Literary Work. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1978.
Rosenblatt, Louise. Literature as Exploration. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1937.
On-Line:
SOURCES: SECONDARY
WWW GATEWAYS
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