American Literature - Literary Theory and Criticism

Literary Theory and Criticism

See also: :Category:American literary critics
  • Edgar Allan Poe: Dark Romanticism, Short-Story Theory
  • T. S. Eliot: Modernism
  • Harold Bloom: Aestheticism
  • Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation, On Photography
  • John Updike: Literary realism/modernism and aestheticist critic
  • Michiko Kakutani: New York Times critic
  • M. H. Abrams: The Mirror and the Lamp (study of Romanticism)
  • F. O. Mathiessen: originated the concept "American Renaissance"
  • Perry Miller: Puritan studies
  • Henry Nash Smith: founder of the "Myth and Symbol School" of American criticism
  • Leo Marx: The Machine in the Garden (study of technology and culture)
  • Leslie Fiedler: Love and Death in the American Novel
  • Stanley Fish: Pragmatism
  • Henry Louis Gates: African American literary theory
  • Gerald Vizenor: Native American literary theory
  • William Dean Howells: Literary realism
  • Stephen Greenblatt: New Historicism
  • Geoffrey Hartman: Yale school of deconstruction
  • John Crowe Ransom: New Criticism
  • Cleanth Brooks: New Criticism
  • Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric studies
  • Elaine Showalter: Feminist criticism
  • Sandra M. Gilbert: Feminist criticism
  • Susan Gubar: Feminist criticism
  • J. Hillis Miller: Deconstruction
  • Edward Said: Postcolonial criticism
  • Jonathan Culler: Critical theory, deconstruction
  • Judith Butler: Post-structuralist feminism
  • Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Latina literary theory
  • Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Queer theory
  • Fredric Jameson: Marxist criticism

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