BLOCK 7: LITERARY THEORY

1. Introduction 

2. John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

3. Allen Tate (1899-1979)

4. I.A. Richards (1893-1979)

5. R.P. Blackmur (1904-1965)

6. Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

7. William Empson (1906-1984)

8. Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994)

9. Wimsatt (1907-1975) and Beardsley (1915-1985)

1. Introduction

2. Victor Shklovsky (1893-1984)

3. Boris Ecehnbaum (1886-1959)

4. Yuri Tynyanov (1894-1943)

5. Roman Jakobson (1896-1982)

6. Georges Poulet (1902-1991)

1. Introduction

2. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)

3. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)

4. Vladimir Propp (1895-1970)

5. Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)

6. Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009)

7. Roland Barthes (1915-1980)

8. A.J. Greimas (1917-1992)

9. Gerard Genette (1930-2018)

1. Introduction

2. Paul De Mann (1919-1983)

3. Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

4. J.H. Miller (1928-2021)

5. Geoffrey Hartman (1929-2016)

6. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)

1. Introduction

2. Jean Francois Lyotard (1924-1998)

3. Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)

4. Frederic Jameson (1934-)

5. Edward Soja (1940-2015)

6. Julia Kristeva (1941-)

1. Introduction

2. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

3. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981)

4. Julia Kristeva (1941-)

1. Introduction

2. J.G. Frazer (1854-1941)

3. Carl Jung (1875-1961)

4. Maud Bodkin (1875-1967)

5. Northrop Frye (1912-1991)

1. Introduction

2. H.R. Jauss (1921-1997)

3. Wolfgang Iser (1926-2007)

4.Norman Holland (1927-2017)

5. Stanley Fish (1938-)

1. Introduction to Feminism

2. Types of Feminism

1. Mary Wollstonecraft

2. Margaret Fuller

3. John Stuart Mill

4. Virginia Woolf

5. Simone de Beauvoir

6. Kate Millet

7. Betty Friedan

8. Luce Irigaray

9. Elaine Showalter

10. Helene Cixous

11. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar

12. Shulamith Firestone

13. Laura Mulvey

14. Judith Butler

15. Donna Haraway

1. Introduction to Queer Theory

2. Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)

3. Alan Sinfield (1941-2017)

4. Jonathan Dollimore (1948-)

5. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009)

6. Jack/Judith Halberstam (1961-)

1. Introduction to Marxist Theory

2. Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)

3. Antonio Gramsci (1891-1837)

4. Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005)

5. Louis Althusser (1918-1990)

6. Ernest Mandel (1923-1995)

7. Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)

1. Introduction to New Historicism

2. Raymond Williams (1921-1988)

3. Stephen Greenblatt (1943-)

1. Introduction to Cultural Studies

2. Elements of Culture

3. Types of Culture

4. Inception of Cultural Studies

5. Antonio Gramsci (1891-1837)

6. Louis Althusser (1918-1990)

7. Raymond Williams (1921-1988)

8. Stuart Hall (1932-2014)

9. Frederic Jameson (1934-)

10. Stephen Greenblatt (1943-)

1. Introduction to Postcolonial Theory

2. Important Concepts and Terminology

3. Aime Cesaire (1913-2008) and Leopold Senghor

4. Ranajit Guha (1923-2023)

5. Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)

6. Antonio Negri (1933-) and Michael Hardt (1960-)

7. Edward Said (1935-2003)

8. Benedict Anderson (1936-2015)

9. Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak (1942-)

10. Bill Ashcroft (1946-)

11. Salman Rushdie (1947-)

12. Dipesh Chakrabarty (1948-)

13. Homi K Bhabha (1949-)

14. Gauri Vishwanathan (1950-)

1. Introduction to Ecocriticism

2. Raymond Williams (1921-1988)

3. Vandana Shiva (1952-)

4. Jonathan Bate (1958-)

5. Ramachandra Guha (1958-)