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Literary Theory

General Theory

• Some characteristics of contemporary theory

• Contemporary Literary Theory (article)

• A checklist of theoretical concerns

• Some Factors Affecting/Effecting the Reading of Texts

• The differences between Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, and 'theory itself'

• The Problem of Meaning

Structuralism

• Elements of Structuralism

• Jakobson's Communication Model

• Summary of Genette, "Structuralism and Literary Criticism"

Reader-Response

• The Interpretive Turn

• Some Principles of Phenomenological Hermeneutics

• Reader-Response: Various Positions

Poststructuralism, including Deconstruction

• Some Poststructuralist Assumptions

• Deconstruction: Some Assumptions

• notes on différance

• Synopsis of J. Hillis Miller, "The Critic as Host"

• Examples of deconstructive reading by J. Lye:

  • love poem

  • Impediments

  • Time is the only just power

• The 'death of the author' as an instance of theory

Critical Theories

• Ideology

• Some Issues in Postcolonial Theory

• An Ideological Reading of "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"

• Bakhtin on Language

• A summary of Foucault, "The Discourse on Language"

• Synopsis of Foucault,"Nietzsche, Genealogy, History"

• Foucault in Action

Psychoanalytic Theory

• Psychoanalytic Theory

Feminist Theory

• Some Feminist Theoretical Positions