Chapter Authors and Subjects Covered in the Theory Guides of Critical Theory 3: Psychoanalysis and Feminism by Literary Criticism

Authors and Subjects Covered in the Theory Guides

Critical Theory 1:

1. The Concept of Critical Theory
2. Problems Associated with Critical Theory
3. Matthew Arnold
4. T.S. Eliot, Marenbon, Wordsworth
3. Hazlitt, Richards, Empson
4. Standard Language / Standard Literature
5. Liberal Humanism

Critical Theory 2:

1. Structuralism
2. Saussure
3. Levi-Strauss
4. Existentialism: moral individualism, subjectivity, choice, dread and anxiety
5. Pascal
6. Kierkegaard
7. Heidegger
8. Sartre
9. Existentialism in Practice: Dostoyevsky, Camus

Critical Theory 3

1. Psychoanalytic Criticism
2. Freud
3. Literary Psychoanalysis
4. Lacan
5. Feminist Criticism
6. Simone de Beauvoir
6. Sapir-Whorf Theory and Feminist Linguistics
7. Julian of Norwich
8. Hughes and Plath

Critical Theory 4

1. Deconstruction
2. Reality
3. Jacques Derrida
4. Structure, Sign and Play
5. The Centre
6. A Derrida History of Western Philosophy
7. The Universal and the Particular
8. Why Deconstruct?
9. Play and Presence

Critical Theory 5

1. Phenomenology
2. Husserl
3. Heidegger
4. French Phenomenology
5. New Historicism
6. Principles of New Historicism
7. New Historicism in Practice: Louis Adrian Montrose
8. Greenblatt
9. Problems with New Historicism

Critical Theory 6

1. Marxist Criticism
2. Recurrent Terms in Marxist Criticism
3. How Does Marxist Criticism Work?
4. Postcolonial Criticism
5. Major Issues in Postcolonial Criticism
6. Language and Postcolonial Criticism: Thiong'o, Rushdie
7. The Fabrication of Orality: Achebe, Gibran