Literary theory & CritiCism terms

and their ProPounders:

1. New Criticism - John Crowe Ransom
2. Structuralism - Ferdinand de Saussure
3. Post-Structuralism - Jacques Derrida
4. Deconstruction - Jacques Derrida
5. Reader-Response Theory - Louise Rosenblatt
6. Formalism - Viktor Shklovsky
7. Russian Formalism - Roman Jakobson
8. Psychoanalytic Criticism - Sigmund Freud
9. Archetypal Criticism - Carl Jung
10. Mythological Criticism - Northrop Frye
11. Marxist Criticism - Karl Marx
12. Feminist Criticism - Virginia Woolf
13. Gender Studies - Judith Butler
14. Queer Theory - Judith Butler
15. Cultural Criticism - Raymond Williams
16. Postcolonialism - Edward Said
17. Ecocriticism - Raymond Williams
18. Historical Criticism - Hippolyte Taine
19. Biographical Criticism - Samuel Johnson
20. Narratology - Gérard Genette
21. Aestheticism - Walter Pater
22. Decadent Movement - Arthur Symons
23. Reader-Response Criticism - Wolfgang Iser
24. Postmodernism - Jean-François Lyotard
25. Transcendentalism - Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. Pragmatism - William James
27. Existentialism - Jean-Paul Sartre
28. Absurdist Literature - Albert Camus
29. Expressionism - August Strindberg
30. Surrealism - André Breton
31. Stream of Consciousness - William James
32. Modernism - Ezra Pound
33. Imagism - Ezra Pound
34. The New Negro Movement - Alain Locke
35. Harlem Renaissance - Langston Hughes
36. Minimalism - Raymond Carver
37. Theatre of the Absurd - Samuel Beckett
38. Marxist Feminism - Juliet Mitchell
39. Postcolonial Feminism - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
40. Postmodern Feminism - Judith Butler
41. Ecofeminism - Carolyn Merchant
42. Posthumanism - Donna Haraway
43. Dialogism - Mikhail Bakhtin
44. Genre Theory - Northrop Frye
45. Reception Theory - Hans-Robert Jauss
46. Affective Fallacy - W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
47. Intentional Fallacy - W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
48. Paratext - Gérard Genette
49. Hermeneutics - Friedrich Schleiermacher
50. Bildungsroman - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
51. Dystopian Literature - George Orwell
52. Utopian Literature - Thomas More
53. Dialogic Imagination - Mikhail Bakhtin
54. Nihilism - Friedrich Nietzsche
55. The Uncanny - Sigmund Freud
56. Magic Realism - Franz Roh
57. Doppelgänger - E.T.A. Hoffmann
58. Post-Postmodernism - David Foster Wallace
59. Postcolonial Criticism - Homi K. Bhabha
60. Semiotics - Ferdinand de Saussure
61. Cognitive Narratology - David Herman
62. Trauma Theory - Cathy Caruth
63. Epic Theatre - Bertolt Brecht
64. Southern Gothic - William Faulkner
65. Picaresque Novel - Anonymous
66. Historical Novel - Walter Scott
67. Neoclassicism - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
68. Romanticism - William Wordsworth
69. Realism - Gustave Flaubert
70. Naturalism - Émile Zola
71. Afrofuturism - Mark Dery
72. Chicano Literature - Rudolfo Anaya
73. Cosmic Horror - H.P. Lovecraft
74. Golden Age of Detective Fiction - Agatha Christie
75. Colonial Literature - Joseph Conrad
76. Cubism - Gertrude Stein
77. Dadaism - Hugo Ball
78. Epistolary Novel - Samuel Richardson
79. Fables - Aesop
80. Gothic Fiction - Horace Walpole
81. Hellenistic Poetry - Callimachus
82. Invisible Theatre - Augusto Boal
83. Jazz Poetry - Langston Hughes
84. Kitchen Sink Realism - John Osborne
85. Language Poetry - Charles Bernstein
86. Metaphysical Poetry - John Donne
87. Nouveau Roman - Alain Robbe-Grillet
88. Oulipo - Raymond Queneau
89. Pathetic Fallacy - John Ruskin
90. Quantum Fiction - Werner Heisenberg
91. Romantic Comedy - William Shakespeare
92. Southern Renaissance - William Faulkner
93. Terror Management Theory - Ernest Becker
94. Ulysses - James Joyce
95. Verse-Novel - George Meredith
96. Western Canon - Harold Bloom
97. Xenophobia in Literature - Chinua Achebe
98. Yarn - Eudora Welty
99. Zines - Thomas Pynchon
100. Zoomorphism - Ted Hughes
101. Psychological Realism - Sigmund Freud
102. Social Realism - George Lukács
103. Historical Materialism - Karl Marx
104. Materialist Feminism - Gayle Rubin
105. New Historicism - Stephen Greenblatt
106. Cultural Materialism - Raymond Williams
107. Ethnic Studies - Edward Said
108. Postmodern Fiction - Linda Hutcheon
109. Ecofeminist Literary Criticism - Carolyn Merchant
110. Afrocentric Literary Criticism - Molefi Kete Asante
111. Chicana/o Literary Criticism - Gloria Anzaldúa
112. Queer Narratology - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
113. Post-colonial Feminist Theory - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
114. Poststructural Feminism - Judith Butler
115. Postcolonial Science Fiction - Darko Suvin
116. Postmodernist Feminism - Helene Cixous
117. Transculturalism - Homi K. Bhabha
118. Post-apocalyptic Literature - Mary Shelley
119. Nouvelle Vague - Roland Barthes
120. Performativity - Judith Butler
121. Phenomenology - Maurice Merleau-Ponty
122. Cognitive Literary Studies - Lisa Zunshine
123. Narrative Medicine - Rita Charon
124. Crip Theory - Robert McRuer
125. Disability Studies - Lennard J. Davis
126. Object-Oriented Ontology - Graham Harman
127. Narrative Theory - Gerald Prince
128. Dialogism in Literature - Mikhail Bakhtin
129. Liminality - Victor Turner
130. Hypertext Fiction - Stuart Moulthrop
131. Postcolonial Gothic - Patrick Brantlinger
132. Dystopian Criticism - Fredric Jameson
133. Magic(al) Realism - Alejo Carpentier
134. Cyberpunk - William Gibson
135. Multiculturalism - Kwame Anthony Appiah
136. Tragic Flaw - Aristotle
137. Object Relations Theory - Melanie Klein
138. Existential Literary Criticism - Jean-Paul Sartre
139. Structural Anthropology - Claude Lévi-Strauss
140. Ecocriticism - Lawrence Buell
141. Cognitive Poetics - Reuven Tsur
142. Postcolonial Gothic - Patrick Brantlinger
143. New Journalism - Tom Wolfe
144. Digital Poetics - Chris Funkhouser
145. Biopunk - Neal Stephenson
146. Neuroscience and Literature - Antonio Damasio
147. Cognitive Cultural Studies - Lisa Zunshine
148. Ecological Literary Criticism - Timothy Morton
149. Animal Studies - J.M. Coetzee
150. Afrofuturism - Mark Dery
151. Quantum Fiction - Werner Heisenberg
152. Quantum Poetics - Michael Peters
153. Postmodernist Film Theory - Jean Baudrillard
154. Postcolonial Ecocriticism - Rob Nixon
155. Environmental Literary Criticism - Ursula K. Heise
156. Cyberfeminism - Sadie Plant
157. Eco-Poetics - Brenda Hillman
158. Disability Poetics - Petra Kuppers
159. Postcolonial Psychoanalysis - Frantz Fanon
160. Ecocritical Science Fiction - Ursula K. Le Guin
161. Ecofeminist Criticism - Susan Griffin
162. Comparative Literature - Johann Gottfried Herder
163. Digital Humanities - Franco Moretti
164. Hypertext Theory - George P. Landow
165. Postdramatic Theatre - Hans-Thies Lehmann
166. Reception Aesthetics - Hans Robert Jauss
167. New Humanism - Irving Babbitt
168. Postcolonial Literature - Edward Said
169. Environmental Criticism - Lawrence Buell
170. Biographical Criticism - Samuel Johnson
171. Phenomenological Criticism - Roman Ingarden
172. Reader-Response Criticism - Wolfgang Iser
173. Cybernetics - Norbert Wiener
174. Cognitive Literary Theory - Mark Turner
175. Postcolonial Psychoanalysis - Frantz Fanon
176. Cyberculture Studies - Donna Haraway
177. Postcolonial Gothic - Patrick Brantlinger
178. Environmental Humanities - Rob Nixon
179. Quantum Poetics - Michael Peters
180. Postmodernist Film Theory - Jean Baudrillard
181. Ecocritical Science Fiction - Ursula K. Le Guin
182. Postcolonial Ecocriticism - Rob Nixon
183. Eco-Poetics - Brenda Hillman
184. Disability Poetics - Petra Kuppers
185. Posthumanism - Donna Haraway
186. Cognitive Cultural Studies - Lisa Zunshine
187. Cyberfeminism - Sadie Plant
188. Postcolonial Feminism - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
189. Cultural Studies - Stuart Hall
190. Postmodernist Feminism - Helene Cixous
191. Queer Theory - Judith Butler
192. Postcolonial Science Fiction - Darko Suvin
193. Post-Postmodernism - David Foster Wallace
194. Postcolonial Criticism - Homi K. Bhabha
195. Neuroscience and Literature - Antonio Damasio
196. Cognitive Poetics - Reuven Tsur
197. Postcolonial Gothic - Patrick Brantlinger
198. New Journalism - Tom Wolfe
199. Digital Poetics - Chris Funkhouser
200. Biopunk - Neal Stephenson
201. Deleuzian Literary Theory - Gilles Deleuze
202. Dialogic Imagination - Mikhail Bakhtin
203. Structuralist Film Theory - Christian Metz
204. Poststructuralist Film Theory - Michel Foucault
205. Radical Feminism - Shulamith Firestone
206. Economic Criticism - Karl Marx
207. Psychoanalytic Feminism - Julia Kristeva
208. Postcolonial Feminist Theory - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
209. Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Jacques Lacan
210. Theater of Cruelty - Antonin Artaud
211. Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism - Jacques Lacan
212. Narrative Medicine - Rita Charon
213. Object-Oriented Ontology - Graham Harman
214. Cultural Materialism - Raymond Williams
215. Dialogic Literary Criticism - Michael Holquist
216. Biographical Criticism - Samuel Johnson
217. Formalism - Victor Shklovsky
218. Minimalism - Raymond Carver
219. Primitivism - Carl Jung
220. Postmodern Fiction - Linda Hutcheon
221. Structural Anthropology - Claude Lévi-Strauss
222. Post-Postmodernism - David Foster Wallace
223. Postcolonial Ecocriticism - Rob Nixon
224. Jazz Poetry - Langston Hughes
225. Language Poetry - Charles Bernstein
226. Neuroscience and Literature - Antonio Damasio
227. Fictional Realism - György Lukács
228. Feminist Film Theory - Laura Mulvey
229. Postcolonial Gothic - Patrick Brantlinger
230. Cyberpunk - William Gibson
231. Neoclassicism - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
232. Romantic Comedy - William Shakespeare
233. Southern Gothic - William Faulkner
234. Postcolonial Gothic - Patrick Brantlinger
235. Postcolonial Science Fiction - Darko Suvin
236. Quantum Fiction - Werner Heisenberg
237. Quantum Poetics - Michael Peters
238. Postmodernist Film Theory - Jean Baudrillard
239. Eco-Poetics - Brenda Hillman
240. Disability Poetics - Petra Kuppers
241. Object Relations Theory - Melanie Klein
242. Crip Theory - Robert McRuer
243. Disability Studies - Lennard J. Davis
244. Postcolonial Psychoanalysis - Frantz Fanon
245. Ecocritical Science Fiction - Ursula K. Le Guin
246. Cyberfeminism - Sadie Plant
247. Cultural Studies - Stuart Hall
248. Postmodernist Feminism - Helene Cixous
249. Queer Narratology - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
250. Postcolonial Feminism - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak