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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:
- 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
Feminist Theory
English Language and Literature