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Literary Terms          Poetic Terms          Dramatic Terms

Literary Ages

Historical & Cultural Timeline

Old&Middle English          Renaissance          Commonwealth          Augustan          Romantic          Victorian          Modern          Contemporary

Novelists & Novels

Atwood          Austen          Bronte          Cisneros          Defoe          Dickens          Eliot          Ellison           Faulkner          Fitzgerald          Forster          Hardy          Hawthorne          Heller          Hemingway          Hurston          Huxley          James          Joyce          Kerouac          Kingston          Lessing          London          Mitchell          Morrison          Orwell          Rhys          Richardson          Shelley          Stein          Steinbeck          Swift          Tolkien          Woolf

Critics & Criticism

Stages of Literary Criticism according to M. H. Abrams

Althusser          Aristotle          Arnold          Barthes          Baym          Beauvoir          Behn          Booth          Brooks          Butler          Cixous          Culler          Derrida          Dryden          Eliot          Emerson          Fanon          Fish          Foucault          Freud          Gates          Gilbert          Gramsci          Hegel          Horace          Iser          James          Kant          Kolodny          Kristeva          Lacan          Levi-Strauss          Longinus          Pisan          Plato          Plotinus          Said          Sartre          Saussure          Shklovsky          Showalter          Sidney          Williams          Wimsatt          Wittig          Woolf          Wordsworth

Schools of Theory

Overview of Major Schools of Theory

Cultural Criticism          Deconstruction          Ecocriticism          Feminism          Formalism          Humanism          Marxism          New Criticism          Postcolonial Theory          Psychoanalytic Theory          Reader-Response          Structuralism          Stylistics