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