Overview of literary critical theory
An essential guide for A-level teachers and students to the key literary criticism theories of the 20th and 21st centuries. Includes a summary of the following theories and theorists:
The great tradition – F. R. Levis [1895–1978]
Reader response – I. A. Richards [1893–1979]
Russian formalists [1910–1929]
Saussure
Genre theory
Structuralism
Post-structuralism/deconstructionists – Jacques Derrida
Psychoanalysis – Lacan
Feminist literary criticism
Marxist literary criticism
Post-colonial literary criticism
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