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SET THREE as well as REVISE

LITERARY CRITICISM

PHILIP SIDNEY
Apology for Poetry / Defence of Poesy

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Browse Wikipedia and other major websites

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DR JOHNSON
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Browse Dr Johnson’s Critical Works, Critical Ideas.

Make a list of Key Words—just the words.

Go through the text of Preface to Shakespeare quickly

MATTHEW ARNOLD
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Browse Arnold as a Literary Critic

The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

The Study of Poetry—look up the text of the essay and summary

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years as possible, but don’t
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READ NOW!! Biography

Make a list of essays, chronologically

Look up Text and Summary of Major Essays

• Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

• Hamlet and His Problems (1920)

• The Metaphysical Poets (1921)

• Andrew Marvell (1921)

• The Function of Criticism (1923)

• Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933)

• What is a Classic? (1944)

• Notes Towards the De nition of Culture (1949)

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IA RICHARDS
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• The Meaning of Meaning (1923; with C.K. Ogden)

• Principles of Literary Criticism (1924)

• Science and Poetry (1926)

• Practical Criticism (1929)

• Coleridge on Imagination (1934)

• The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936)

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FR LEAVIS ALL THESE WORKS

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• New Bearings in English Poetry (1932)

• Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry (1936)

• The Great Tradition (1948)

• The Common Pursuit (1952)

• Idea of "Novel as a Dramatic Poem”

NORTHROP FRYE
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IN GENERAL
Browse LITERARY CRITICISM HISTORY, IDEAS, CONCEPTS

QUOTES and QUIZZES on All Major Critics

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LITERARY THEORY
IN GENERAL Go over
EVERY ONE of these AUTHORS
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Read on All Major THEORIES QUESTIONS from here
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• Structuralism
• Poststructuralism
• Postmodernism
• Marxism
• Postcolonialism
• Feminism
• Reader Response Criticism
• Hermeneutics

MIKHAIL BAKHTIN
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Biography

Major WORKS, chronologically

Make a List of Major Works as well as Excerpts

• Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays (1990)

• Rabelais and his World (1965; trans. 1968)

• Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (1929; trans. 1973)

• The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (1930s; trans. 1981)

• Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (1986)

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• Heteroglossia, Dialogism, Chronotope, Carnivalesque, Polyphony

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WORKS & CONCEPTS
JACQUES DERRIDA and READ on them

READ NOW!! Biography

Make a List of Major WORKS, chronologically, as well as Excerpts

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• Of Grammatology (1967)

• Writing and Di erence (1967)

• Speech and Phenomena (1967)

• Margins of Philosophy (1972)

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• Deconstruction, Event, Decentring, Di erance, Logocentrism, Metaphysics of Presence,

Phallogocentrism, Free play, Trace, Arche-writing, Ecriture, Invagination, Pharmakon,
hauntology, Sous rature, khora

ROLAND BARTHES
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Make a List of Major WORKS, chronologically, as well as EXCERPTS and Key IDEAS
(Here are a few—Add More)

• Writing Degree Zero (1968)

• Elements of Semiology (1968)

• Mythologies (1972)

• The Pleasure of the Text (1975)

• S/Z: An Essay (1975)

• Camera Lucida: Re ections on Photography (1981)

• Criticism and Truth (1987)

• The Language of Fashion (2006)

• What Is Sport? (2007)

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JULIA KRISTEVA
READ NOW!! Biography

Make a List of Major WORKS, chronologically, as well as EXCERPTS and Key IDEAS

(Here are a few—Add More)

• Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980)
• Tales of Love (1987)
• Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (1989)
• Proust and the Sense of Time (1993)
• Trilogy Female Genius

Major AREAS of INTEREST—Quickly Browse on Kristeva’s contributions in these areas

Philosophy of Language, Semiotics, Literary criticism, Philosophy of Literature, Psychoanalysis,
Feminism, Cultural Studies

Major IDEAS

• Semiotic

• Abjection

• Chora

• Intertextuality

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TERRY EAGLETON & You won’t regret later

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Make a List of Major WORKS & IDEAS

• Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976)
• Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
• The Function of Criticism (1984)
• The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990)
• The Signi cance of Theory (1990)
• Ideology: An Introduction (1991)
• The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996)
• The Idea of Culture (2000)
• After Theory (2003)
• The Meaning of Life (2007)
• How to Read a Poem (2007)
• Why Marx Was Right (2011)How to Read Literature (2013)
• Culture and the Death of God (2014)

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LITERARY THEORY
Be PRACTICAL
MICHEL FOUCAULT Don’t be Idealistic & Emotional

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Make a List of Major WORKS & IDEAS
• Madness and Civilization (1961)
• The Birth of the Clinic (1963)
• The Order of Things (1966)
• Discipline and Punish (1975)
• The History of Sexuality (1976)

Browse “Foucault Key Concepts” & Make a List of Major IDEAS

• apparatus (dispositif) • gaze

• archaeology • genealogy

• archaeology versus genealogy • governmentality

• archive • heterotopia

• author/artist • history of the present

• biopower • humanism and the death of man

• confession • ideology

• con nement • Panopticon, panopticism and

surveillance
• discipline
• power and Power/Knowledge
• discourse
• regimes of truth
• discursive formation
• sexuality
• episteme

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 CULTURAL STUDIES
Even Reading these Names
THEORISTS is a lot of Learning.

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Quickly Look Up Major WORKS & IDEAS of these Theorists

(The Theories and Theorists listed here are not strictly related. There can be overlap)

SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE
Emile Durkheim
Max Weber
George Simmel
Marcel Mauss
Frankfurt School
Pierre Bourdieu

CULTURAL MATERIALISM
Raymond Williams
Jonathan Dollimore
Alan Sin eld

CYBERFEMINISM
Donna Haraway
Susanna Paasonen
N. Katherine Hayles
Radhika Gajjala
Sadie Plant

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Manfred E. Clynes
N. Katherine Hayles
Donna Haraway
Paul Virilio

MEDIA STUDIES
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John Berger
Susan Sontag
Marshall McLuhan
Jean Baudrillard
Gary Hall
John Fiske
Stein Braten
Stuart Hall
Henry Jenkins
James Cli ord
Graeme Turner
Manuel Castells
Richard Dyer

SPACE AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Guy Debord
Michele Foucault
Henri Lefebvre
David Harvey
Edward Soja

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 GENDER & QUEER STUDIES
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Adrienne Rich
Sara Ahmed
Michael Warner
Robert McRuer
Angela McRobbie
Jonathan Dollimore
Annamarie Jagose
Joan Riviere

CULTURAL HISTORY
E. P. Thompson
Catherine Hall
Richard Hoggart
Peter Burke
Jürgen Habermas
Cli ord Geertz

NATIONALISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Benedict Anderson
Edward Said
Homi K. Bhabha
Franz Fanon
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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RACE STUDIES
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WEB Du Bois
Stuart Hall
Franz Fanon
Paul Gilroy
Edward Said
Aime Cesaire
Kimberle Crenshaw

GLOBALIZATION STUDIES
Arjun Appadurai
Manuel Catells
Roland Robertson

MODERNITY STUDIES
Anthony Giddens
Jean-François Lyotard
Michael Hardt
Antonio Negri
Walter Benjamin
Michel Foucault
Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer

COUNTER CULTURE & SUBCULTURE

Angela Davis
Dick Hebdige
Theodore Roszak
Angela McRobbie

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 SHAKESPEARE STUDIES
Alan Sin eld
Jonathan Dollimore

POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES

Andrew Ross
Janice Radway
Angela McRobbie
Slavoj Žižek

INDIGENOUS CULTURE STUDIES

Alan McKee

FILM STUDIES
Ackbar Abbas
Richard Dyer
Slavoj Žižek

DISABILITY STUDIES
Michael Bérubé
Lennard Davis
Christopher Bell
Robert McRuer
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

CONSUMER CULTURE
Paul Willis

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Browse & Make a List of Cultural Studies Journals here

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